Why am I muted, banned or disabled in AQ3D?

Accounts are banned, muted or disabled for 4 types of reasons:

1. Wrong Password

   If you entered the wrong password to login too many times, your account may be temporarily banned. Reset your Password here.

2. Rules Violations
   
   If you break our Rules in-game, your account will be banned or muted for 1 day (24 hours), 3 days (72 hours) or 7 days (168 hours). Actual verbal/written 'warnings' are not given, just mutes or bans, depending on the nature of your rule violation, but each and every mute/ban can act as a 'warning' and will count against you and can result in a permanent mute or ban. Since we have in-game moderators monitoring and manually banning/muting players, bans and mutes cannot be appealed. If you receive a mute, it means you will not be able to use chat for the duration of the mute. If you receive a ban, it means you cannot login to your account for the duration of the ban. The most common reasons that receive a ban or mute for rule-breaking in-game are: spamming chat, verbal abuse, hate speech, sexual harassment or anything sexual in nature, griefing/harassment, packet spamming, using or discussing any kind of 3rd party tools/programs such as cheats/hacks/bots/macros/auto clickers/trainers etc or exploiting any glitches.  We have measures in place in game to detect and confirm the use of any 3rd party tools/programs.
   
   
3. Payment Issue

   If you have a payment issue, your account may be temporarily, or depending on the severity of the issue, permanently disabled. This includes any kind of refunds/disputes/chargebacks/etc that have affected the payments made to the account or any associated accounts. Whenever there is a payment issue, any associated game accounts are disabled as per our Refund Policy. If you did dispute a payment and want to get your account reinstated, please visit our Help Page.

4. Account Issue

   If an account looks compromised, shared or traded, it may be disabled, depending on the situation. We do everything we can to protect our players and if an account does look compromised, it will be disabled and the original owner needs to contact Artix Support.

Important Notes

• Any rules violations that occur can affect all associated accounts.
• Repeat offenders may have their accounts permanently banned, muted or disabled. 
• No optional upgrades purchased for the account or how long you have played as associated with any rules violations.
• Playing our game and using chat is a privilege, not a right.
• If your first violation is severe, you may be permanently muted or banned, depending on the situation. Some violations are handled on a case by case basis. 
• Tone cannot be confirmed in text or online, so we cannot confirm that anything said in game is a 'joke.' Please read this Design Notes post for more information.
• Keep your account secure and it only belongs to you! Please read our Rules and Terms of Service. All players have to agree to them before creating an account.
• You do receive an email notification for any mutes of bans you receive and if your account is disabled. Some email providers like Gmail may send our emails into the promotions folder or Hotmail may filter emails to the Other tab, so please check there if needed.

ATTENTION - a language filter has been added to the game that can be turned on or off. This means players can use moderate profanity when they are casually communicating with players in game. This is NOT a free pass to use any kind of profanity or inappropriate language toward players as that is considered harassment. We also will never allow any kind of sexual language or behavior. This addition is subject to change but we will never allow harassment or anything sexual in AQ3D for any reason and our normal rules have not changed.