Mystic(Warhammer) overcharges users accounts by hundreds of dollars

Papa_Lazarou

Mythic Overcharges

Well in the last two days it would appear that mythic,the company in charge of Warhammer online has had a billing glitch and users have found their bank balances in the negative from a few hundred dollars up to thousands and thousands of dollars.

I thought it was funny at first until i realised the amount of people who had actually lost all their savings and are now left penniless and pretty much bankrupt until mystic sort out the thousands and thousands of mistakes the billing system has made. The link above is for the support thread on the warhammer forums where people are showing how much they got overcharged. The thread has had over 450,000 views in the last two days.
The glitch seems to have charged different users various amounts for numerous subscriptions at a time. One user that was on CNN yesterday had his account debited to the tune of 850,000 dollars apparently





Report on CNN website:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-430817

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Hank_Jones

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

That'll show them for playing a crappy game.:pac:

I'm guessing that you play other crappy games, but not War Hammer?

Strange how you frequented the forums enough to find that also...

M5

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Mystic Overcharges

Well in the last two days it would appear that mystic,the company in charge of Warhammer online has had a billing glitch and users have found their bank balances in the negative from a few hundred dollars up to thousands and thousands of dollars.

I thought it was funny at first until i realised the amount of people who had actually lost all their savings and are now left penniless and pretty much bankrupt until mystic sort out the thousands and thousands of mistakes the billing system has made. The link above is for the support thread on the warhammer forums where people are showing how much they got overcharged. The thread has had over 450,000 views in the last two days.
The glitch seems to have charged different users various amounts for numerous subscriptions at a time. One user that was on CNN yesterday had his account debited to the tune of 850,000 dollars apparently


That'll show them for playing a crappy game.:pac:

maybe try posting this in Consumer issues or Games?

FearDark

Pfft, we used play warhammer on an old wooden door propped up on two barrels in the neighbours shed. Making houses out of cardboard boxes and styrofoam.... ahh those were the days...

Papa_Lazarou

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I'm guessing that you play other crappy games, but not War Hammer?

Strange how you frequented the forums enough to find that also...

Yeah i've played quite a few crappy ones tbh.

Don't read their forums but saw it on the CNN website.

OutlawPete

Wtf is mystic warhammer?

Papa_Lazarou

OutlawPete wrote: »

Wtf is mystic warhammer?

Mystic is the sub-company of EA games that runs Warhammer online i think. Not sure though.

KevinVonSpiel

OutlawPete wrote: »

Wtf is mystic warhammer?

From what I've heard, it's kind of like Twister crossed with Chess but with weapons.

bad2dabone

he means Mythic (a company) who make the online game Warhammer Online. its a subscription based fantasy game.

MultiUmm

Ehh .. ive heard of wow, but what's mystic warhammer? it would be an awesome name for a sex toy actually :cool: just what sex toy is the question :pac:

OutlawPete

KevinVonSpiel wrote: »

From what I've heard, it's kind of like Twister crossed with Chess but with weapons.

Ah, I see ..

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Mystic is the sub-company of EA games that runs Warhammer online i think. Not sure though.

Ah I see, I was at an EA games launch a few months back at The Sugar Club. No idea what game though, I just went for the free Pizza, Beer and Dawn Of The Dead screening

bad2dabone

Gah its MYTHIC not MYSTIC!

OutlawPete

Is this funny?

...

Hank_Jones

OutlawPete wrote: »

Is this funny?

...

I really don't know.

Must be War Hammer humour.

Papa_Lazarou

bad2dabone wrote: »

Gah its MYTHIC not MYSTIC!

Yeah my bad. :rolleyes:

bad2dabone

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Yeah my bad. :rolleyes:

sorry dude,
i felt like a tit after posting it.

Papa_Lazarou

bad2dabone wrote: »

sorry dude,
i felt like a tit after posting it.

Not as bad as i did after realising the mistake

conno3001

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Mystic is the sub-company of EA games that runs Warhammer online i think. Not sure though.

EA Games? That explains that so.

kowloon

They have a shop devoted entirely to these over the ha'penny bridge (ha'penny, right?).

bonerm

It's just the online equivilant of bullying a nerd in the schoolyard for his lunchmoney.

galwayrush

OutlawPete wrote: »

Wtf is mystic warhammer?

Expensive..:pac:

entropi

conno3001 wrote: »

EA Games? That explains that so.

Well things went downhill a bit for Mythic when EA bought them out, as they purely done it for the Warhammer license even though Mythic had their own very popular MMORPG "Dark Age of Camelot"...which I played for years lol.

Linky to their original post about billing and how it'll be sorted.

Gunmonkey

Actuallt EA made WAR a lot better, most of the problems with the game was the shoddy engine Mythic used as they hadnt the cash to develop a new one. That plus some retarded gameplay decisions (dropping 3 way combat in favour of 2 way was the worst).

Mr Benevolent

Actuallt EA made WAR a lot better, most of the problems with the game was the shoddy engine Mythic used as they hadnt the cash to develop a new one. That plus some retarded gameplay decisions (dropping 3 way combat in favour of 2 way was the worst).

Oh god, the MMORPG fanboys are on the loose...

mikom

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Well in the last two days it would appear that mythic,the company in charge of Warhammer online has had a billing glitch and users have found their bank balances in the negative from a few hundred dollars up to thousands and thousands of dollars.

Ah come on.......... Surely keeping your virginity is worth at least a couple of thousand.

Chorcai

I love the Americans and their class action lawsuits ! Loved the part where Mythic said ask your back to wavier the late fees !!!

jayteecork

At least it being an EA(biggest 3rd party publisher in US*) company they'll get their money back.

*maybe it's Activision Blizzard now.

rovert

And they were going to spend all that money on their girlfriends