Ok, here's a true story, and the truth about Achat :
I used to be a customer of Achat. In fact, I was one of the oldest member of this program. If you read this topic from the beginning, you will see a member called Pkoifaire being very enthusiastic about it. That was me. I changed my nickname since then.
So, during two years, I used to come to Achat and, of course, to pay in the way to be a premium member. I was away during some periods but I always eventually came back on it. But the last time I came back, I noticed the system of « gift » they created made things really less fun. With this system, it just became impossible to talk with girls. They're all asking for gifts, and that's all. No gifts, no conversation. No gifts, no sex. And since you can only get gifts if you are a female member, there's more and more men pretending to be women too. So, well, I was against this gift system since the whole beginning and I was right : Achat is way less interesting than it was before.
So, I went on the forum of the game, and expressed my opinion about it. I said that I was kind of disappointed, that I would probably not pay again for Achat, since this gift system is spoiling everything. Some members reacted, we had a conversation about that, some agreed, some disagreed... What happened usually on a forum, and nothing much.
And then, two days after, I saw that my topic had disappear... I looked for it and found it, retitled and locked, buried on the page 3 of the forum, far enough away to make sure nobody would click on it.
I created a new topic, where I asked why I get censored. It disappeared ten minutes after. I created another one, who got deleted too.
Another member noticed that and created a topic to ask what was happening to my own topics. Then came a brand new administrator who explained that she did nothing wrong. She explained she's here to keep « the fun » on the forum, which probably explain why she deleted my stuff. But she didn't SAY it. She didn't explain anything. She just gave false informations, and never answered precisely to our questions. So I insisted. I wanted to know why she censored me that way.
So she banned me.
She just banned me from the forum, because I was keeping asking her to put my topic back in his place. And, of course, she didn't explain to the other members WHY she banned me. In fact, she didn't even say she banned me. She just did it and kept it hide.
So I came back on the forum with another nickname. It was hard to do it, as only premium members can access to this forum. I had to create a female account, then give myself a gift who allowed me to register... Anyway, I came back because I wanted to let people know I've been banned.
I sent some private messages to some members, and contacted the other administrator, the oldest, to let him know that my account was banned for NO reasons, that I wanted it to get unbanned, and that's not a way to treat a customer. After a few messages, he banned me again. Which means that, now, I can't access to the forum for good. I still can read it, but can't write on it.
Of course, once again, he didn't inform the other members that I got banned. He just asked the people to stop reacting about the fact that I've been banned, claiming that he will come again shortly with more informations. It seems to be just a way to keep the members quiet, and to wait them to forget this story.
So, why I'm telling you all that ?
Because, in the first place, I hope some members of Achat will read that. I can't talk anymore with some of them who supported me a lot, and I would like to thank them. I won't say their names cos they could get banned too, but they will know I'm talking about them.
Secondly, I want people to know that Achat DISRESPECT their users and customers. If you have critics to make, they won't be heard, and they will be censored. If you ask for your right to express yourself, which should be the right of every customer of every commercial company, then you will be CENSORED.
I want people to know that those people doesn't deserve your money. You just can't trust them.
Achat used to be fun, now it's just a giant bordello with no fun, where you will get banned if you try to say how your feel.
So, it just deserves to fail.
Thanks a lot, and sorry for my bad english.
Florent.