Thousands of players have been unfairly banned in Conan Exiles — not because of their actions, but due to poor administration and the lack of clear tolerance limits in Funcom’s own guidelines.
But I believe we can change that. We can bring Conan back to life with new policies, clearer rules, balanced building and foundation limits, and a more transparent relationship between the company and its community.
Over time, through several updates, the game has been improving and fixing many of its issues. I truly believe it’s now much harder for players to take advantage of bugs or exploits.
That’s why it’s time to rebuild trust. We need to fill the servers again and show players that it’s worth investing in Conan — buying DLCs and Battle Passes knowing they’ll be able to enjoy what they paid for, without the fear of being unfairly banned.
This would also be beneficial for the company itself, bringing more players back and generating more revenue.
Many players, including myself, decided not to buy Dune because we were unfairly banned from Conan Exiles.
I personally have been banned three times, even when I wasn’t playing — just for having my account in a clan.
Are there any valid stats or any source providing this information?
Without any effort for offending you my fellow exile, i can assure you that many players still haven’t banned yet and believe that they own servers and that’s unfair too.
They can do it and we will happily follow.
Bring it on…
NO!
Yes please!
Last but not least! In the new transparent rule set people must understand that they are Guests in their free online option and need to Respect the other players too.
Another important thing is that both their character and ownings have a timer of existence in this server maximum a year, then everything should automatically decay and start all over again.
I’m echoing @stelagel, thousands? Hundreds maybe, but thousands is a gross exaggeration.
Also the rest he said as well.
I want to touch on your encouragement to rebuild trust on our end as players.
NO
It’s the other way around. FC massively needs to rebuild trust with its players. I can list a litany of issues over the course of their history and there is much to say about CE.
FC needs to show us that it is worth it to play. To invest our time and support.
You also suggest we show this “trust” by giving them money? I’m trying to be as kind as possible here but this plea is bullshit.
Maybe the LLM you used isn’t delivering what you meant to say. At least I hope so.
Also a good thing would have been as well is for character transfer to come back with it’s original method and as character copy as method two.
Also players who never bought the “first day” edition, to get the “king Conan armor” and “Conan sword” from the original movie that they are simular to the royal armor and antlantian sword.
I won’t lie, i miss that. I really loved to go from EL to Siptah with recipes that doesn’t exist there or if they do you have to challenge rngesus for a year to get them.. Nahh, server transfer was better.
I too received a suspension and when I reached out to funcom for the reasoning behind it, I was stonewalled with a bunch of canned responses about how I was free to play offline or private servers. After pushing the issue a bit.. was told I was suspended for ‘spam claim’ on a server I have never played on!
So yeah, I too am a member of the ‘no more money for you’ club.
No matter how compliant you are, if you associate with players/people that violate the game or other players, that means you are tolerant of the activity and did not report it. Bad clans must tolerate each other’s propensity to violate. Zipf’s law… birds of a feather flock together. You are an accomplice to the violation. If you drive a person to the grocery store and that person robs the store, then you drive back to the apartment that you both share and you eat some of the food… no, you didn’t rob the store, but you were an accomplice. When the thief gets caught, whomever supported or benefitted from the theft is an accomplice. You understand that. If you don’t have standards for the type of people you play the game with, expect more of the same. The “I’ll play with anybody” apathy leads to the consequences of doing such. There is no way that I will ever play this game or any other game with random people or people that don’t meet my standards. Why? Because I know the reality of association and I don’t want the consequences of associating with people/players that have no standards.
Here are some things to consider:
If a guy is using a female character or any guy in the clan is using a female character, expect everything that comes with that. Avoid it if you don’t want the consequences thereof.
Public servers are horrible for every possible reason.
Private servers are only good when the admin(s) are not tyrannical.
If a player does not know the lore or any of the canon, that player will be inclined to anachronism or playing around with the game instead of actually playing the game with genuine interest.
If anachronism is tolerated, expect everything that comes with that. Avoid it if you don’t want the consequences thereof.
I agree with both points but will assume the Day One bonuses are off the table directly but tweaked versions could come into the bazaar much like what they did with battle pass content. (In fact the battlepass content could all come into the bazaar with slight tweaks as well)
When you make a positive claim the burden of proof is upon you to to back said claim up with verifiable evidence to support your claim. Can you please provide your evidence? Otherwise… you have supposition which you are attempting to assert as fact, and do you know what that is generally refereed to as?
I think you misunderstand some fundamental things here. WE cannot create new policies for Funcom. WE can make suggestions, but we have absolutely ZERO control over what Funcom decides upon when it comes to what policies THEY wish to implement for THEIR company.
Also, I am not going to get into the debate here because it has been explained many many many times over by more knowledgeable people on the subject than myself, but foundations limits are not even remotely a solution to anything.
They have already done away with both DLC’s and Battle Passes. Why bring these up?
Were you though?
I mean, of course you BELIEVE that you were. But were you really though? No one here will know for sure and your view on the matter will, for obvious reasons, be biased, so the question will never really be answered. But so many people who have been “unfairly banned” on these forums end up either A). admitting to something that is blatantly against the ToS and or is an exploit or B). provides screen shots that show just how outrageously they were in violation of the ToS and or exploiting. Obviously this is not everyone, but it has happened so many times that I tend to trust no claim of “unfairly banned” without actual proof.
Invisibility bug happens because Funcom can’t code. No idea how to replicate it. Happens at random. Perma banned. Won’t even let you appeal due to “severity of actions committed”. Meanwhile I’ve seen ACTUAL hacker accounts ruin servers for MONTHS without a ban.
The problem is with how the game was designed to begin with.
The most it was intended to be was coop. It was never intended to be Multiplayer .. especially anything remotely resembling an MMO.
But too many wannabes demanded PVP to the point of making threats to sabotage this game if they didn’t get what they demanded. They got it and as a result .. you got your problems as a result of it. You also got your exploits in overabundance and left the people who made it by making the mistake of giving into the demands bringing with it a freaking dilemma.
Now it’s a freaking mess. But who’s complaining. EVERYBODY.
So go ahead and play the victim-finger pointing game. But damn well look into the mirror first.
Want to blame the developers? Think it over. The problem began with the people who demanded it.
“Hey chatgpt, write me an enthusiastic post about how all the players need to band together cuz thousands of people are getting banned from conan exiles and how that’s funcoms fault for having bad rules”
The ban system was not correct, it had many flaws. Allow me to point a couple.
1st. If a server had a small community synergy between players, they would send reports for the same person and this person would accept ban.
2nd. If a person had already banned one time the second and third was easier, maybe it wouldn’t require greater investigation.
That was the reason people were complaining in here of players weaponizing the ban system.
3rd. It didn’t had a warning system neither a correct explanation system of what people actually did wrong and got banned.
4th. Mechanic glitches were many (sky base, etc..) and the company never took an actual position about them. So players were using them for competitive needs but they got mysteriously banned after without a proper explanation.
The greatest mistakes players were doing was…
1 My base ain’t big, my neighbor has bigger, so if there’s someone to get banned it’s my neighbor not me.
2 everyone plays with glitches and cheats on official servers only noobs don’t.
And you will tell me my friend @Xevyr now, this is kindergarten mentality. Yes, sad but true these servers had this mentality and the company treated to this mentality with army guns. That was their greatest mistake.
Underestimating the sheer toxicity of computer gamers when presented with PVP opportunity.
Not expressing what their expectations on PVP officials should be. Either from cowardness of upsetting some players or by just providing the play style out there as a shoot-from-the-hip move, the result everyone having their own ideas on what PVP should be and the lower common denominator is toxic run players out of the server.
I wouldn’t take anything for granted at this point. Amazon just announced New World is going into maintenance mode with no new content or updates and fired everyone in their game studies along with a whole bunch of other people.
As an outsider looking in the games industry doesn’t seem to be in a good place. Which could be a reflection of the bigger picture in general.
Tencent has gaming as one of its primary focuses, Amazon is focused primarily on e-commerce.
Tencent invests in gaming, Amazon invests in logistics.
Tencent gains significant revenue from gaming, Amazon gains revenue from retail.
Tencent lets studios operate as they wish as long as they turn profit, Amazon is actively trying to replace its human employees with robots.
Yes, Tencent did lean on Funcom to “restructure,” but that was because Dune launched and the surplus personnel were made redundant (as is fairly standard, even if unfortunate, in game development), not because fleshbags are a larger nuisance than clankers.
I read that two days ago and I can’t get it out of my head, so may I ask what exactly is to expect or might be the consequences? I have absolutely no idea.
On the topic I don’t think there is anything to do. Conan is in his retirement daycare which employs cheap foreign workers who might care but couldn’t. Enjoy what is to enjoy until it ends eventually.
, i don’t know how you can tell but i trust yours skills and knowledge in these situations.