Account blocked by an administrator

[GameGO]

i never played the game before, but i was very hyped to start playing until i get banned before even start the game, pls help.
[https://ctrlv.link/d68c]

[Fuyuki]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/495910/discussions/0/2997669713991961258/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/495910/discussions/0/1742260595851041280/

this is a common issue these days but tldr;neople isnt taking any chances with security due the nature of what happened under nexon NA, there isnt really another option available and its just easier to let new accounts verify themselves then to compromise security instead

also dnt make an account on steam, iirc u dnt need to redownload everything but just move files over or seomthing though idk the specifics of this since i dnt play dfo on steam nor ever downloaded it from steam but people on dfo reddit can easily help with this https://www.reddit.com/r/DFO/

to send ticket tos upport; https://neople.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[Nefarious]

It's like they don't want people to play this game, steam client auto blocks and standalone client downloads the game at a snail pace then freezes, at least it did for me.

[Fuyuki]

ive heard standalone client downloading incredibility slow before but this is rare and i dnt think anyone has figured out exactly why, me and other people i know download at blue hedgehog speed

[Ken]

What happened under nexon NA ? I have never played this game before, saw this game recommended in a YT video, was checking community posts while deciding if i should try it, will i get banned immediately if i were to download this game from steam?

[Fuyuki]

Originally posted by Ken:

What happened under nexon NA ? I have never played this game before, saw this game recommended in a YT video, was checking community posts while deciding if i should try it/quote]

nexon NA hosted it from 2010 to 2013 witha beta best in 2009 so its been nearly a decade already but these is waht i remembered

• let hackers run rampant (i was one of the players hacked by them)
  
• let bugs/glitches run rampant
  
• incredibility long maintenance times
  
• slow updates as in by the time they discontinued service nexon was more then 2 years behind KR
  
• customer support tickets hardly ever answered, the meme of people celebrating the anniversary of their support ticket being answered sprouted from this
  
• little to no compensation for anything
  
• if there was any compensation at all it was likely an item called ice tiger capsules even for the most severe of problems, said ice tiger capsules is a consumable that summons an ice tiger as an ally unit in dungeon for a specific amount of time but this ice tiger was really weak, slow and its only attack pattern was to latch itself onto a single target and disable them for a rather lengthy duration, this sounded like a good thing but whatever it grabbed was also given i-frames (invincibility frames) so it was overall just useless if not detrimental to the actual gameplay
  
• a halloween event mob that spawns randomly was left in game still spawning randomly in dungeons months after event was over
  
• let chinese bots and gold sellers ran rampant which inflated in-game economy
  
• nexon inflated the exp tables upping the amount of exp needed to lvl up, to give an example of how bad it was; when male mage was release in dfo under nexon in like 2012 it took me over a month to reach the then lvl cap of 70 after expending all available options for exp every day whereas dfo under neople using the same exp tables KR used (and before scenario dungeons feature was implemented) getting to the then lvl 85 cap took about 3-4 weeks at longest just by doing the bare minimum daily
  
• avatars for the first couple months were obtained though an in-game vending machine npc that only takes irl cash to roll and the avatar you got was random
  
• overpriced packages
  
• skill reset and adding and subtracting lvls from skills was free and unlimited in KR but nexon disabled this and instead sold items in cera shop to either reset skills or temporary turn this feature on for a certain amount of time but required an item to lock current build in because w/o said item to lock skill build once the duration was over the skill build would revert back to the original build before the itme was used
  
• IP blocked anyone not in NA

pretty sure theres more that i forgot but these is all i can think up of off the top of my head atm and by the time nexon NA closed service; people literally didn't care about the economy anymore with a single piece of rare avatar weighting in at 400m in the in-game auction feature (same item now under neople is like 15-30m each or 60-70m for a full set that becomes untradable once gotten) or if they would be banned for hacking or gold buying as it was now done pretty openly as nexon had stopped giving any updates or even news at all for half a year already so it was clear they didnt give a ♥♥♥♥
didnt helped that their last most memorable change by then was an exclusive alternation of the fatigue/stamina system into something being unlimited but gave less drops the more you played called the blitz system which really helped enabled chinese gold botters even more and when they announced service closure the reason they gave was that the game wasnt sustainable/profitable anymore . . .
yea take as long as you need for that to sink in; they abused the hell out the game and its playerbase at the time only to then also blame said playerbase for the reason they had to discontinue service all while marketing dfo (which they didnt at all for most of its lifespan under them) as an "unique experience" and the compensation was a refund on NX (their cash shop currency) spend by players the last 2-4 months but who the hell even spent anything on dfo when nexon stopped doing anything with it 6 months ago

as you can probably guess with the history surrounding it, dfo vets from back then like me are rightfully pissed at nexon NA and with the lack of exposure due to lack of marketing by them, neople's revival of dfo now global in 2014 had to initially bank off of the playerbase nexon left behind so they had to present themselves as the opposite of them or at least NOT nexon NA even though neople is a subsidiary to nexon KR since they bough them out in 2012 (though neople is also the original developer)

Originally posted by Ken:

will i get banned immediately if i were to download this game from steam?

a few stream ago from neople reveals that the banning issue that started over a year ago due to ramping up security was due to chargebacks happening on a massive scale and the unveiling of the dfo webstore on their site (officially implemented 2 weeks ago) is suppose to be a workaround for it which would probably alleviate the new player bannings while also removing the need of the seria's request quest too that is required to complete before being allowed to purchasing cera
not sure if new player auto bans is still a thing since the webstore is only 2 weeks old and definitely still needs some fine tuning but even if you do get banned it just takes sending in a ticket to support since as mentioned above its to verify new accounts to prevent potential fraud
overall i still wouldent recommend downloading and playing dfo through steam