Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

[Cotners]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

Removing cheaters from a game usually has a positive impact.

I agree, however I am talking about possible second hand repercussions... e.g. several crafters were banned, means less supply. Many player's friends were banned, will that make them quit? and so on... 950 actual players (not RMT) being suspended and banned at once is a big hit to the community.

[Kailea]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

where is this list they are looking at? I want to see it ;p

[DakAttack]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

Holy shit balls...

I am on the fence on this one. Anyone on here get hit by the ban hammer? SE is a bunch of idiots for letting that shit happen, and people are dumbshit for doing it when it was clearly not what SE had intended.
Why didn't people get banned for the wall glitch on AV? Or for Soloing Genbu? Or anything else that's questionable.

"Who would wanna be such a control freak?" - Modest Mouse
*speaking about god, and if there is a god, who would wanna be such a control freak*

Answer: SE

But at the same time, I can go buy a xbox360 and then I can steal another one at the same time (baring getting caught) but I don't cause I know the consequences....

The more I think about this situation the more my brain hurts...Stupid SE, Stupid People, Stupid box full of smiley faces next to me typing this....

*NOTE*
Out on a limb:
I think SE is getting ready for their new MMO. Everquest people played EQII and half of them went right back to EQ after like 2 months. I'm sure similar situations have occured. Maybe their cracking down, banning folks, and giving them no option but to play another MMO. I dunno...what ever, as long as my Mog is there when I get back I guess I'm good

*NOTE2*
!DING! This is how they fixed the logout exploit! TAKE THAT PANDY WARDY!

What is wrong with you?

[DakAttack]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

And rofl at the people on BG who are claiming this game is dead now because 500 Endgamers got the boot. If anything that would just open the game up more to some new blood, maybe even to people who don't exploit glitches!

Oh god, I'm literally giddy with hope.

[Clever Ninja]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

Several crafters being banned is actually better for other crafters, less competition in several markets = more oppurtunity, people who had to resort to other synths due to a constant stream by someone else in the market can move back if they so please. While overall for awhile the supply WILL go down, any smart crafter is gonna see this, jump on the new bandwagon they synthed and start pumping items for that respective market that is suffering.

And there's another thread on BG that's listing people who are confirmed to be banned, temp or perm. And Tempyst is seriously making me laugh way too hard, he keeps reposting stuff from the old patch thread of the dupers acting all smug and superior. I might have to bring my laptop to history class <.<

[Armando]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

500 people across all servers doesn't sound like a lot though. That's like 16 people per server, and unless they were all in roughly the same time zones, not all of them would be on at the same time.

[Balfree]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

Im pretty sure more people will get banned as the investigation continues, some folks have said they duped and are still playing.

I had to go to BG and check it out... the hilarity is THICK there.

I love my DiV so much

[Elwynn]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

500 people across all servers doesn't sound like a lot though. That's like 16 people per server, and unless they were all in roughly the same time zones, not all of them would be on at the same time.

That's what I was thinking too... even if all the "temp ban" got perma-banned, that's still only an average of 30 per server, including JPs. Out of what, half a million?

But that's just an average. Out of the 900+ total, I see four servers on the other BG thread with 30 or so bans each, while Fairy only has two, only one of which I remember ever seeing in game. (Yes, I know that Fairy isn't one of the "trendy" servers among the online crowd, so it may be under-represented on BG.) So this won't have much effect on me, whether for crafting competition or for someday if I went nuts and wanted to do tons of endgame content.

[Sabaron]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

I like the thread on BG better. All of the idiots that got banned are whining that since SE made the programming error that they should expect people to exploit it and shouldn't do anything about it.

That's like saying that because people leave their coats on a coat rack at a bar that they should expect to be stolen from and the people who steal the coats are therefore inculpable.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

I like the thread on BG better. All of the idiots that got banned are whining that since SE made the programming error that they should expect people to exploit it and shouldn't do anything about it.

That's like saying that because people leave their coats on a coat rack at a bar that they should expect to be stolen from and the people who steal the coats are therefore inculpable.

Exactly. So many of them think that SE should wipe their ass and then kiss it afterwards just because they play the game.

[Kailea]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

lol got another funny one....


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Timeline of the death of FFXI:

7/08/06 - SE creates the STF to investigate RMT.
6/10/08 - SE begins banning fishbotters.
1/22/09 - SE bans Salvage dupers.
3/24/09 - SE bans all Windower Users.
3/27/09 - SE bans all TParty users.
4/14/09 - SE bans all GMs for pos-hacking players to Mordion Gaol after checking the past five years of logs.
4/17/09 - SE announces new MMORPG.
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*gets his foil hat*

[Aksannyi]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

Shit I forgot my BG password so I can't browse at school, lol.

[Balfree]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

I duznt has a BG account and i can still see the lulz..

[Aksannyi]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

Yeah forgot I can view Advanced just not spam ... and fuck ... I don't need to read spam.
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Also, lol:

I think instead of bans, SE should have taken each piece that was ill-gotten and changed the stats to have grossly negative hidden effects, like a morrigan's robe with a hidden and undisplayed effect of -75 magic attack

that way the duped pieces would be like poorly constructed chinese knock offs

[Elwynn]

Re: Handling Misconduct (Jan. 22) aka Ban hammer!

lol got another funny one....

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Timeline of the death of FFXI:

7/08/06 - SE creates the STF to investigate RMT.
6/10/08 - SE begins banning fishbotters.
1/22/09 - SE bans Salvage dupers.
3/24/09 - SE bans all Windower Users.
3/27/09 - SE bans all TParty users.
4/14/09 - SE bans all GMs for pos-hacking players to Mordion Gaol after checking the past five years of logs.
4/17/09 - SE announces new MMORPG.

That list is missing a couple of things. It also needs to include the bans of people afk in /attack in Eldieme_S, and white mages using the 75% zone trick with teleports. However, SE will continue to not ban the telebots in Jeuno and Whitegate.