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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic
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They couldn't charge for it if they wanted to, so I'm not sure what point you're getting at.
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The point is, we as players are being offered something for free. We are not in a position to haggle. We can approach the people offering us this free stuff and politely ask if they might offer it in a slightly different way, but we have no moral or ethical leg to stand on in demanding that they change anything.
If we were paying customers, we would have legal and ethical rights, but we aren't.
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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic
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The real issue is that cyrius is enforcing a nonexistant naming policy. Fine. Whatever. Let's get it codified and enforced and see how long it lasts.
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According to Bumamgar, the policy is real, even if we are not privy to all the details. Granted, that I have the benefit of his post before responding to you, but you were still making an assumption that because you were not aware of something, that it did not exist.
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Right now, we're seeing sunshine enforcement where a few people get their names changed once a month when it is fun and convenient to do so while the vast majority of legitimately offensive names remain untouched and preferential treatment is granted toward some members. The fact that cyrius threatened to begin actually enforcing the rules a few posts ago is proof of this. If the current enforcement was globalized and made consistent, the possibility of enough 'moral outrage' for a 'movement' (if you insist on using those words) is very real.
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We are playing on this server at the pleasure of the devs. I'm sure that anyone unwilling to play under the devs terms is welcome to not play. If 400 people want to quit because they can't be named "Astro Physics" or "Cocoa Puffs" or "Autom Aticrifle" or whatever, then P1999 will mostly likely roll right along with 450 people in prime-time instead of 850. As I said, and Bumamgar echoed... the proper way to handle this is a polite petition and/or private message.
We are not paying customers, so we don't have the right to get outraged and make demands of the dev staff, period. Doing otherwise is ungrateful and rude.