Hello All!,

I just came back after about a 3.5 year vacation to find one of my accounts stolen and characters transfered.
In before the haters, its my fault blah blah, just don't even bother please.

Well I contacted CCP they told me since it has been 3 years they can't do anything "what the hell?"

So that means I can go and steal a character and if the owner doesn't notice in 2 years its all good?

I don't care if they remove all the sp earned from 3 years and refund it to the person who may have bought my char. I just want it back.

And to add insult to injury my char's name is my IRL name, which is not a common name.

So lets just say my real name is Kahless Smith, and that is the billing name on the eve account, and the character on that account is also Kahless Smith. Said character is stolen and transfered. Me "Kahless Smith" contacts CCP for it back, and they decline. Is it not obvious who the character belongs to?
*Name is fictional to provide a name no one else in the world would have.*

Hello All!,

I just came back after about a 3.5 year vacation to find one of my accounts stolen and characters transfered.
In before the haters, its my fault blah blah, just don't even bother please.

Well I contacted CCP they told me since it has been 3 years they can't do anything "what the hell?"

So that means I can go and steal a character and if the owner doesn't notice in 2 years its all good?

I don't care if they remove all the sp earned from 3 years and refund it to the person who may have bought my char. I just want it back.

And to add insult to injury my char's name is my IRL name, which is not a common name.

So lets just say my real name is Kahless Smith, and that is the billing name on the eve account, and the character on that account is also Kahless Smith. Said character is stolen and transfered. Me "Kahless Smith" contacts CCP for it back, and they decline. Is it not obvious who the character belongs to?
*Name is fictional to provide a name no one else in the world would have.*

All you did was name it.

If you gave someone your account info, quit EVE, and then they took the character and used it for THREE YEARS, not only is this 100% your fault (and an EULA violation), but it isn't even your character anymore. All you did was name it.

1. Where did I say I gave my account to someone?
2. I did not give my account to anyone.

Good luck proving that. If someone had access to your account, the odds are severely stacked in the direction of you having given the info away.

If you gave someone your account info, quit EVE, and then they took the character and used it for THREE YEARS, not only is this 100% your fault (and an EULA violation), but it isn't even your character anymore. All you did was name it.
1. Where did I say I gave my account to someone?
2. I did not give my account to anyone.

Good luck proving that. If someone had access to your account, the odds are severely stacked in the direction of you having given the info away.

Yeah, go troll somewhere else. The only person that had access to my account was me and my imaginary friend.

If that doesn't work, contact a lawyer! ;)

Good luck proving that. If someone had access to your account, the odds are severely stacked in the direction of you having given the info away.

Then how, pray tell, did someone take your character?

Threatening legal action against CCP is a good way to get all of your accounts banned permanently.

Escalate the petition if it really was stolen. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes if they parse the chat logs and find you giving away your login information to someone else, though.

Fortunately I was quite veiled about it. :)

My only real point was...keep escalating the matter until it is resolved.

I didn't mean you, my point was that if you actually do get a lawyer and attempt to press charges, CCP will automatically respond by banning all of your accounts and "suggesting" that you take your business elsewhere.

Interesting. I'm not a lawyer and have no knowledge of Icelandic law, but that actually surprises me.

Why? It prevents people from doing that frequently.

Also, there is the fact that you own nothing in EVE. You rent access to their servers. The data is all theirs. You literally cannot have a case against them based on in-game property, and just shutting down people who try serves not only as a deterrent, but saves them legal fees to boot.

Because I'm paying for a service, not in-game property.

No different than paying for a cell phone service, whom I have sued, and continue to use their service with...?

*Name is fictional to provide a name no one else in the world would have.*

I like how people have assumed that you have given out your details, assumed that it is infact all your fault

I haven't read your cellphone service contract, but when you sign up to play eve, you agree to let CCP terminate your service for whatever reason they want and whenever they want, regardless of them having a valid reason.

It's their world, you just play in it.