I've decided to pass the next two hours waiting to jump on Bijou as quickly as possible and steal all of Bla~ahs names by writing a fun little story about my rather short experience on the Apoline server. I hope you enjoy.
How to Get Banned From Fiesta
A Cautionary Tale
By: KY Jelly
Disclaimer: No names have been changed in this story. Fuck the innocent.
Chapter 1: Life Before Apoline
I came upon Fiesta through GunZ. Guntrix and DSChang, of all people, are clan mates with my in my clan (Panties) and so it was pushed a bit. I was able to obtain entry into the closed beta after it had started through my aforementioned friends in high places. While in there, i enjoyed myself. It wasn't a grind fest like some free MMOs, it was fairly diverse in just about all aspects, and the GMs were having events and passing out items like candy. Eventually the closed beta ended and I all but forgot about Fiesta. I was reminded of it when i heard there would be a second closed beta AND our characters from the first would be rolled over. so I grabbed my trusty cleric once again and went to do battle with the evil monsters of the Isya continent.
I got bored about the time my cleric hit level 40 and felt that my waste of skill points (i empowered damage absorption pre-nerf) was irreversible. I sold everything, transfered the money to storage and started over with KY Jelly, the archer.
I felt much more at home on KY Jelly. no more being a parties' personal HP resevoir and capable of a bit more versatility was a fresh breath. and i felt like i was levelling at warp speed after all that grinding from 30-40 (i solo'd most of the time because of my aforementioned feelings toward being a cleric in a party) I got Jelly to level 22 before the second closed beta also ended.
Then the open beta started. I was much more aware of it this time, having been re-vitalized at how much fun questing and levelling was, having used a lower level character for the second half of closed beta. I was heart broken to find out that alt codes had been filtered out of character titles. the space between KY and Jelly was gone, and more importantly, my Closed Beta Tester title which i rightfully earned and deserved was markedly absent.
I quickly got over this setback, created KYJelly, and got back to work. I levelled slowly, didn't play often, and the game was really nothing more than a time waster for me. However after a strange series of events i could no longer play gunz (problem with the school network apparently) so Fiesta became game numero uno for me.
After meeting up with another GunZ clan mate in the game, we decided to make a Panties Guild, in homage to the greatest GunZ clan ever invented. We were going to have all the same rules.
something went horribly wrong, however. No one was following our rules, people were leaving at random, insulting other guilds and causing some very rediculous situations (4v1 guild war? yeah good times) so we booted everyone and made the guild invite only.
Chapter 2 The Migration
it was about that time i found out that other GunZ players were playing on the Apoline server. I decided since panties was basically defunct, my archer was a fairly low level, and my buddy James was willing to make the move as well, I cut my losses and moved to Apoline.
While there, I tried out all 4 classes before settling on a Fighter (with James choosing cleric, making us a fairly effective 2 man party) I levelled fairly easily and made plenty of money (having all the practice from previous play) and was a level 22 pure end clever fighter with a 1h sword+shield as well as a 2h sword and an axe, fully up to date on all my equipment skills (and even had level 24 boots and level 25 1h sword mastery and slice n dice)
James and I started playing in vine tomb, killing Hobs and gaining experience at a pretty good clip. It was before one of these Vine Tomb adventures everything went horribly wrong. I was in elderine waiting for James to log in when i noticed Steam was in town. Having had minor contact with Dakkon but none with Steam, i decided to chat with him. Problem was, i needed something to catch his attention over the usual "ooh a GM, lets all perform fellatio on him and maybe he'll give us stuff" type of comments. So i quickly entered in /s Dakkon > Steam. True Story.
Well, it worked. he quickly appeared next to me. His dark black eyes stared deep into my soul. I made a comment about him not appreciate my comment then next thing i know, i'm disconnected.
"wow, he sure got me" i thought as i quickly logged back in to have a quick laugh with him. I clicked on my fighter and entered Elderine without glancing at my name. when i finally got in i saw it. "SchmuckersJelly" some hideous joke with only a minor resemblance to my previous name had been placed over my head. Surely this was a joke.
Surely, i was wrong. After some words with Steam, it appears my name was inappropriate. He mentioned something along the lines of "Don't blame me, Dakkon changed it." BS. Dakkon has seen me plenty of times on the teva server and never once made mention of my name. Not only did he attempt to throw his co-worker under the bus, he got caught in his own lie. Then i went on to berate him about how he ruined this character and now i have to remake it and blah blah and he could have at least warned me. That's when he said he did warn me i must not have read it. Once again BS. I moved myself in a position so as to not have my chat box spammed with gold farmers. I scanned the shouts for a reply to my dakkon>steam comment, nothing. there were no non shout comments made. Thats lie number two, keep up the good work there Steam.
At first i resisted. I recreated KYJelly as well as creating Astroglide and BiteMeSteam. i was quickly disconnected and they were all changed. It was at that time i figured that it was pointless to keep this up. I made 16Bit, a play off James' cleric 8Bit and went to work trying to get to level 20 by the end of the night.
after about an hour i was just short of level 9. My scrolls ran out and the server was about to go down for 5 hours so i figured that was a good time to log off.
during Apoline's down time, i thought to jump on Teva and give away some of my in game gold and such in an attempt to finalize my move. thats when i found my account was blocked. Odd. I tried logging into Outspark to ask Steam about it, blocked there as well. I had definitely been banned. Wow. For what? For expressing my opinion about the GM? odd considering if i made a char that said BiteMeBlaaahs or BiteMeYosei or the like, i doubt anyone would care, besides yosei or blaaaahs maybe. Although i have a feeling they'd
take it as some weird form of flattery, sick freaks.
So in order to get some answers, i jumped on my spoof account (i make one for every game i play) I PMed Steam on the outspark forums asking why. I really did nothing other than ask why, i did what i could to take any rudeness out of it or jump to any conclusions. i just wanted to get some answers.
In the meantime, i created a 3rd account with a false identity, picked up the pieces, and got back to work. after 2 days, however, i had only achieved level 5. I had fallen back into my lull of not caring anymore. Oh well.
I also went to check for an answer from Steam on Outspark two days later. I unfortunately couldn't check as my spoof account had been banned as well. Somehow i really doubt he ever read past "this is KYJelly" in the PM. he just seems like that kind of a person. I'll let you determine what "that kind of person" means.
Chapter 3 Life Without The Lube
So, am i at all bitter about this? nah. it's just a game. The only real part i consider a waste of time is that hour before i was banned i spent levelling 16Bit. I will probably stop posting here eventually, as giving any more information about my new identity could get it banned.
I've managed to catch DSChang on MSN and he said although he disagrees, he doesn't want to unban me. basically he doesn't want to undermine the authorities of the GMs. I guess my trump card turned up bust this time, huh?
Probably the greatest part about all this is the things I HAVEN'T been banned for. An example: I have stolen a cumulative total of 4gold from power level sites. I've multi booted fiesta and partied and botted myself to plvl a character for a friend. I've outright exploited the rules in every GM event i've participated in (mass recruit before GWing black blades, then kicking everyone after receiving prize)
I mean, I certainly should have been banned long ago. but for having a character named BiteMeSteam which i deleted less than 5 minutes later? humorous, dont you think?
Now, since i will be posting less and less until i just stop, some things to know:
1.I will not be coming back here under a fake identity. It's a forum, i care about it less than i care aobut this game. It's not worth my time.
2.I will not be revealing which of the three servers I'll be playing on (i've mentioned both staying on Apoline and moving to Bijou in this post. Those are just to throw you off. I'm really moving back to Teva)
3. When i do play,i filter out all non party/guild/whisper chats. fiesta's community is stupid at best, mentally handicapped at worse.
4. For what it's worth, inspite of the way the majority of the community acts, most of you fiesta fans were genuinely fun to chat to in game, I'm glad i got to meet some of you guys in game.
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