04-06-2003, 03:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2003, 04:27 PM by l33t h4xx0r.)
Roland,Apr 6 2003, 01:35 PM Wrote:Oh, BTW - I have to ask. Just what the hell is PNF?PNF = Player Not Found
You get this message if
1.) you haven't touched your character(s) within the last 90 days (character has expired) or
2.) the realms/servers somehow got messed up
The latter was the case in Blizzard's recent attempt to get rid of any account(s)/character(s) that have not been played at least 2 hours during the first 48 hours after their creation (late enforcement of the "2/48-hour rule" - the "official" argument). Whatever method they used to indentify those accounts/chars, it has affected a lot of players who have played their chars a lot longer than these 2 hours. A bit later, they have restored a lot of PNF chars because they had to admit that their method was not error-free. Many people considered this very late enforcement of the "2/48-hour rule" as PR stunt. It rather seemed to be a cheap, quick and easy way to get rid of many thousand mule characters that may (or may not) carry botted/duped/hacked items. You can draw your own conclusions now as far as their latest "cheat detection" method and the 131,000 closed accounts goes.