So, uh, why didn't you send this in via support? You'd get a responce from a GM there, with full discretion.

They could track everything, yes, but that requires work. Most MMOs don't bother with it since they'd be servicing a zillion people, but for a small-time game they might oblige. Might. Mind you, that assumes item trades are tracked. You might only get your ce back.

Least you now know to trust no one you can't strangle irl. Least then you can torch their car. :v

https://www.spiralknights.com/support/#mail

It works for me.

Also, just gonna throw this out there, but the GMs aren't going to give you any of your stolen stuff back.
It's gone forever either way.

Another interesting bit of info, if you have an F2P account and somebody hacks it and changes the password, you've lost your account forever.
They don't try to recover accounts without billing information.

My advice? If you know him in real life beat him with a tire iron until CE comes out.

@Psycho
Hm. Interesting. That still leaves the issue of requiring the GMs to do specialized work. Fixing broken parties or teleing players back into bounds is simple to do. Tracing transactions and things like that requires actual thought. I assume it's time consuming, and advertising that they offer such a service means that most GM requests of that nature would be people trying to scam the system or undo unfavorable but legit trades (solved by making it a bannable offence to abuse, but we'll ignore that).

Still, if your bank account is robbed by an associate, you could bring the guy to court for recompense (i.e, have OOO act as arbiters in this case). But in games, the dev just tells you to go to hell. Wonderful customer service, that.
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@Whitelancer
Oh. That explains why you didn't use it. Try opening the page in a different browser then. If Shoebox is to be believed (previous experiences of mine indicate they are), then you can take heart that at the very least, this guy won't profit. Oh, and you got to keep your coat and GF.

Sorry to hear it White :C. He seemed like a nice guy when I met him before..

One word:

Opportunists.

You gave him the opportunity, he took it. People are like that sometimes. All it takes is a little temptation, a little opportunity, then you can hardly recognize them.

In theory it should not be difficult to trace the transfer of stolen items. Assuming the game keeps logs of relevant activities, all that would need to be done is match up the time of transaction where Whitelancer's gear was suspiciously either mailed or traded for nothing in return, and the IP used at the time. The IP address would be out of the ordinary from what Whitelancer normally logs on from, and assuming a proxy wasn't used, would match the IP of the perpetrator's alt account he used as a mule.

However, it may just be policy not to recover stolen items in situations where a password was given out, rather than legitimate hacking.

when i saw the name brotherofvanaduke it reminded me of a knight named brideofvanaduke which is a full 5* knight that ive seen in haven at times

there was also a red tabard for 1mill b/o yesterday at AH this might be stolen property then.

"And not only that, I saw that my Final Flourish ASI High, Gran Faust ASI High and Skolver Coat Shock Max and Normal Low are also gone"

Something tells me you Deserved it.

*Joke, Joke, Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink*

If I'm reading this correctly, the title of your post is incorrect, no? Doesn't seem like any hacking went on, seems like you willingly gave over your account details.

"Yeah it could be my fault..."

COULD be? It IS your Fault.

You gave someone your Information willingly.

They took your Stuff.

Might be a D-Bag Move, but you still gave him your Info, so it is your Fault.

You can get your Friend Banned, but the Chances of getting your Stuff back is Slim for that Reason.

Im so sorry this had to happen. There are douches out there who will completely mis use your trust.

Still a side inside of me just keeps telling me this is all staged for drama. It just seems too....unbelievable...

People who fall for gimmicks like this deserve it. You should know that no one on the internet can be trusted.

Ok, I'm back on, Re-Read your Paragraph, & saw this...

"there are times that I have to time to do my daily prestige mission so I trusted my some of my friends and shared my account details to them."

You gave them your Info, your Knights, your Valuable Possesions at Risk...For PRESTIGE!?!

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!?

You gave a Random Stranger Online, not someone you know in Real Life, your Account Password, ask them to Do Prestige Missions to Raise your Prestige, which do ab-so-fudging-lutly NOTHING Besides give you a Small Symbol next ot your name & Bragging Rights. And you Expect them not to Touch ANYTHING In your Arsenal?

You don't Deserve to get your Stuff back.

Obligatory TOS copy-paste

" It is forbidden to share passwords or accounts, grant someone else access to your account or access another knight's account. You are responsible for the security of your account data "

Technically, they could even ban you for sharing your password instead of giving your stuff back :S

I'm sorry, but why the heck would you give away the password to your account? You were practically asking to be hacked.

So I am confused. You shared your account details with someone over the internet even though Spiral Knights says not to ever do that and your posting this to warn others not to? I thought Spiral Knights beat you to the warning of this but guess not. Let this be a lesson to you. Now move along.

"As I said earlier, some of you might say that it was all my fault for sharing my account details, but I atleast wanted share this as a warning to others in order to avoid other knights in suffering my fate..."

I don't think it takes much more than common sense to keep your account information to yourself. As Juances stated from the TOS in his post, It is absolutely forbidden to share any account information. The folks up at OOO don't write the TOS for the hell of it, they do it for the safety of you and the community. By deliberately breaking them, you should be fully aware that the consequences from this are almost certain to lead to an unfortunate event for SOMEONE at SOME point in time, in this case it was yourself. Any knight who listens to the most basic and obvious rules doesn't even have to read this story.

"I am also sad that something like this actually happened in a game I play to have fun I got deep sadness instead..."

I'm surprised that you seem to have not even thought this could've happen at all. Sadness is expected to come to those who break the rules established by the creators, especially the most basic rules. You play this game to have fun, and you should therefore abide by the rules. You didn't, and you got sadness in return. What was given was according to what you have done.

"...there are times that I have to time to do my daily prestige mission so I trusted my some of my friends and shared my account details to them."

Truly this is the thing that shows the lack so much common sense. You broke the TOS and gave your entire account away for a firetrucking NUMBER. You don't HAVE to do your daily prestige mission. You HAVE to breathe to stay alive, You HAVE to wake up in the morning to get to places on time, but You don't HAVE to use 10 minutes of your life to increase a minor statistic. And you didn't trust any of your "friends," you trusted a mask someone puts on in a MMORPG. Looking at it like that, it looks like a truly foolish mistake. All for nothing bu a number.

I too trust OOO will bring justice to the situation, but that isn't what you really want. What you want is MERCY, which OOO can give to no knight...

Was going to also post that you, Whitelancer violated the TOS first when you gave your password to other people. You are the one who committed a bannable offense before anyone else in this tale.

I know its harsh, but you did not read / fully understand the TOS. Why then should the GM's help you?

HELP MY BOY WHITELANCER NOW!!!!!!!! He got a fortune stolen from him release the hammer and put down any doubts to what will happen to hackers when they try to take stuff that rightfully isn't there's. I always cringe when i hear stuff like this because it could happen to any one of us. I always hope that justice will prevail and the person get his.

this is just unblievable. That guy took your **** and he still had nerv to send you a threatening blackmail... White, I have been good friend of you for sometime now and I feel really bad for you. But, unfortunately, GMS for some reason do you give your stuff back. They didnt when I lost my volcanic wings. They ignored me. They always do. I hope they respond to you, although Eurydice only wrote how to get the support site, not about the OP. I cant imagine how long it took you to get those things... I will try to help you get your crs and ce to recraft and roll your thins if you cant get them back. Good luck, Thor

Whitelancer,

I feel for you. I can only imagine how heartbreaking and stressful this must be. For the sake of full-disclosure, I want to say that i fear I am in possessioin of stolen merchandise :( and am putting in a support ticket to the cause. Last night, at about 2am central tiime (11pm my time) [redacted] takled me into trading my prism wolver tail for a Red Chap, and my Divine wolver tail for 1.2m + unclean aura. At the time of transaction, i had no knowledge of your losses, and thus no reason to be skeptical of his trade offers. Also, this is when he was bragging to me of his great luck in rolling asi high on all teh same weapons you had turn up missing. --after reading this thread today, i told hiim how disappointed i was in him, and he swears that he bought the chap off the AH. I find it hard to believe. He also tried to trade a red tabard for my divine tail (i said no then he made the other deal). Moments after the trade a red tabard appeared in the auction house. I suspect the same one.

I am putting in a support ticket linking this thread, explaining the situation and asking that if OOO's investigation proves that this knight has thieved your account, that they restore my my items and crowns and i can restore you yours (perhaps we can meet with a GM present....or however they wish to work it out, idk).

I don't know if they are going to get involved, or what they can and cannot prove. I am letting this reside in thier hands, as they are the only ones with full transparency of all that has occured. However, in the event that they take no action whatsoever, then i kindly offer to trade you these items back for what i gave for them.

red chap = prism tail
unclean + 1.2m = divine tail.

Its the best i can do. As i cannot just eat the loss, since the inital mistake was on your end for sharing account info. But I can at least offer you the refund of these trades, wherethe red chap+unclean aura + 1.2m is of more value than the two tails. I imagine that your support ticket will be in limbo for quite some time before we know whats going on. I'll not sell off any of these potentially ill-gotten gains until we have had a chance to talk about it.

Sincerely,

An empathetic Rommy

PM me in game, I have some info regarding this theft.