Time to say goodbye to POE after 10years

Hi
I`m sad to say that my POE journey ends today.

Ihave been actively supporting thegame for ever since the first beta.
This year i got banned 2 times

1st time i was scammed and harrassed by a player in discord and when i said some curse words to him in the game he reported me and then they banned me..
However i did not gave up and played entire league as SSF even tho i was feeling let down.

Now after poe2 launch in which i bought 4 supporter packs for each of my cousins and we had a blast playing toghether i made the following comment in Global chat which got me banned for 170Days:
Some dude was spamming trades in global and some dudebefore that was begging for currency
i wrote: "people who begg\sell in global are like gipsy beggars on the street"

I was instantly banned from POE1 and POE2 including trade.
So not only that i had not used any forbidden words but i didnt even imply anything bad here. Gipsy beggars are actually proud people and they do not feel shame for what they do...I happen to know a lot about those people in real live and i can tell with certainty that they are proud people who prefer begging instead of working.

So i gues i used word that was auto picked by bann-bot ?
I made a forum thread in which i described this and people were like "wtf why are you banned" and even the GGG GM reply-ed "please contact support and they will react"

The support did close to nothing for this issue or the other issue i have which is with my Email - i tried to update my email to a new one but i used gmai.com instead of gmail.com... They couldn`t fix that either

The only reply i got from support was the following:

"Hello do you still have issue?"

So even tho i want to keep playing i`m at a point where i have 3 characters in ~80lvl and i have items for more then 200 div to sell but i cannot sell anything.
I cannot buy anything as i dont get any good drops and i cannot progress into tiers 10+ as my bow is self crafted ~180dps bow (need at least 300dps bow at this point)

I decided that enough is enough and i`m really sad to uninstal the game after all my years here.

I love poe and i love our community and even the toxic players but i cannot close my eyes to the unfair and straight rude ways of community managment.

Is GGG racist?
I`m actually offended by this bann becouse it implies that 'Gipsy beggars' is OFFENSIVE in the GGG understandings. This is straight rude and racist as Gipsy beggin lifestyle is something they do in more then 500 years and they live that way...

I know 2 of their biggest online communities and i`ll be askingthere for feedback and see their view on the point from this point forward as this topic is serious and GGG need to understand that offending minotiries like that is not cool and we wont stay silent!

For the record i know they will delete this so i am recording a video with this and i`m also doing a research as it turns out a lot other concerning related issues are reported by people who play this game.

Goodbye!



Last edited by CoryA_GGG#0000 on Dec 22, 2024, 11:13:47 AM
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