Someone has to say it, so i'll do: Sounds like L2P issue.
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WoW you're really brainwashed.
Now imagine some 12y old kid happily playing, seeing new shiny item and buying it with hard earned points, and one day later it disappears. Someone tells him he should be happy he didn't get banned for buying it :D
You won't hear about those people in forum, as they don't post, but trust me, those cases are there, and sending them a message "you should be happy you weren't banned" is well... won't even use words that I should not to break forum rules here.
Kid should be happy he got free lesson how to not be dumb.
Because real lyfe "STOP BEING DUMB" lessons are usually harder to manage and have consequences worse than ingame ones.
Warmane.
Teaching stupid kids since 1987.
Edited: August 23, 2016
I like how you edited your post and removed the "12th year old kid beginner" as an excuse to defend exploiters / bug abusers but I'll let you go with the "noob excuse" that he didn't know. Here on WARMANE nothing is released without a prior announcement, every single damn time when something is released is posted on website, if they don't like to read the website its their own fault.
And I'd advise you that next time you watch your tone and remove direct insults.
"Now imagine some 12 years old kid happily browsing the internet, seeing new shiny hacks and downloading them to use, and one day later they are banned. It's Warmane's fault for not being hack-proof!"
Same logic. The inclusion of the items was a mistake and no one will be banned for getting those items, but you can probably count on your fingers how many people sincerely were totally clueless about the whole thing, not hearing from a single person that the items being available was a mistake and so on.
Actually what you typed doesnt makes sense.
We're not talking about an hack (which unless you're looking for,wont be randomly appearing in your PC and start), but about several players who, for lack of experience,for lack of informations and yes, a part of people that did it on purpose (which is a really low amount), bought and spent their points on weapons which for mistakes has been added by the staff,and deleted few later.
Now, gathering enough points takes a bunch of weeks for be able to buy each items, isnt logic that people would have bought these items "knowing isnt the currently content and can be banned/gear deleted".
Sayng that the problems are the players, and they are lucky to not being banned, is just stupid and egoistic as it's a staff fault AND PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHICH ITEMS ARE ABLE TO GET OR WHICH NOT, as for example, not everyone know the different between seasons and item levels.
A refound of the arena points, or simply add for 2-3 weeks a double flush would solve Warmane staff mistake,while not hitting the players who had no clue about these problems.
The fact you can't see the sense in the comparison only speaks about yourself.
There will be no refunds or "double flushes." The items have been removed and that was the end of it.
Gimme ur Ingame Name and i'll mail u 5 Gold as Refound)
Mail http://wotlk.openwow.com/item=2624, he is in dire need.
I actually believe also that the majority of the players who bought the items knew what they were doing, but i also believe that there were people not knowing **** about what was going on(a few at least). The thing is that if warmane investigated and found out you won rating with those items you should get banned for it and i dont believe anyone of you people complaining would really want it.. So next time plz read the forums and if you somehow find something unusual the bugtracker is here to help all of the community and the devs ofc...
This is childish retalliation, not logic. And yes this is nonsense.
Other than that you are probably right. Players should think in a logic way and realise that you shouldn't be purchasing wrathful items during furious season.
No, it isn't childish, nor nonsense, much less not logic. But since you're the second person showing this sort of ignorance, I guess I have to expand on something others got just fine: the "logic" of "they didn't know, they can't be held responsible" can be slapped on anything, including someone claiming to be "new" to WoW and "not knowing" using hacks is bad, claiming they thought "it was just like add-ons" or whatever. I bet they would try to claim it's "childish and nonsense" to get banned for it too, since they "didn't know."