:lol: I haven't been on my Gaia online account in months. I just got an e-mail telling me I was banned for hacking/profiting from hacking on Gaia Online. I'm guessing some one hacked my account which was a legit account registered in like 2003. Sooo I'm trying to get it back for its sentimental value. Any else have any experiences with being banned from Gaia... were you able to get unbanned?
If you didn't actually do anything wrong, you have a pretty good chance of getting unbanned. Possibly even if you did, they /might/ grant leniency and give a second chance. I have one account that will probably never be unbanned.. ever. But I recently had my newer main unbanned, even though I did break the TOS. I apologized and begged for forgiveness. So, go ahead and try. Spoiler Zero Omega is a particularly friendly admin, but expect a long wait for him to get back to you with results. Mine took about 9 months.
I think what I hate most about this process is their help system is so unorganized. It took me a lot of digging to find the right contact forum. And once I filled that out I got a response saying I needed to fill out a different contact forum because I was probably hacked. So I went and filled out the hacked one which asks all these details and it's like well, I don't know, I wasn't online at the time! Haha. Another thing that kind of pissed me off about the whole thing is that at one point the password for my gaia account was the password to my e-mail and bank account (irl omg) I cycle through passwords like a dummy sometimes, but after this happened I decided to just use random passwords for everything. But yeah they need better security. I'm really curious to know how the person got my password. Orrrr another theory I have is that someone just got pissed off and reported my account for "hacking" just because I had so many good items and a cool username. I used to get a lot of pw reset emails and figured it was some one trying to get into my account lol. Always ignored them though.