Hey, I've been an avid poster on many MMO forums over the years and I just felt the need to come out and say something about the state of these forums for those who may have only played a few games.

Beware of Concern Trolling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(...#Concern_troll

The short definition is when someone who has nothing better to do, or perhaps has a vendetta, comes onto to forums and tries to create fear and panic in the forum community.

I don't doubt SE support is having trouble meeting everyones needs, and clearly some shenanigans went down involving player gil,

but, I would be willing to bet the VAST MAJORITY of what you are seeing on the forums is just made up nonsense to start arguments, to flame SE, or just to cause problems in general.

Just when you read some of these threads, remember that there is a Technical and Billing support forum, and that is where someone genuinely seeking help would be. Not on the General Discussion forums.