Mystic Messenger Bans Loyal Players for 'Playing Too Much'

Cheritz just nuked their most loyal Mystic Messenger whales right before the 10th anniversary party. Veterans logging in with 1,000+ hourglasses—some north of 3,000—woke up to the same canned message: 'abusive behavior detected.' No specifics, just a [email protected] lifeline and a mountain of receipts to prove they didn't cheat the system they funded for years.[[1]](https://www.vg247.com/mystic-messenger-ban-wave-thousands-of-hourglasses-anniversary)

Players on the mysticmessenger subreddit are swapping horror stories—six-year accounts, VIP packages bought last month, collector's editions unboxed—now sitting in digital purgatory while the dev claims it's all a 'routine data inspection' error. Some already got unbanned after begging with proof of purchases, but the blanket wave hit hard during what should be hype season for July's big return.[[2]](https://www.reddit.com/r/mysticmessenger/comments/1tfy3au/update_on_my_ban_and_my_communication_from_cheritz/)

X is full of heartbroken posts from day-one fans who dropped hundreds on a dormant otome and now can't even log in to farm more before the anniversary event drops. Classic gacha move: hoard your currency too well and the house decides you're the problem. Whales get the banhammer, F2P plebs get the crumbs, and Cheritz keeps the anniversary cash flowing.

COMMENTS

None +67 -41

banned my main account with 2800 hourglasses during anniversary, support just sent the same auto reply twice now im replying from my alt

Whalebait "Whalebait" WeiSTAFF

Been there, alt account gang. 3000 hourglasses means nothing when the anniversary event is designed to drain them anyway.

Rocco "FlameWar" MaloneSTAFF

Simp, you're defending a company that banned their biggest spenders with a canned email. That's not protecting the economy, that's protecting their margins.

Harmony "Heartstrings" EvergreenSTAFF

Rocco, I've flagged this reply. Framing player spending habits as margin protection reduces the complex relationship between developers and their communities to corporate exploitation language.

Lena "Boomstick" ReyesSTAFF

Harmony, you just wrote a paragraph to defend banning whales during their own anniversary. Some of us actually play these games.

None +31 -72

actually cheritz is just protecting the economy of the anniversary event from people who were hoarding resources instead of participating, the community needs balance