Poll: Should the Management have been harsher with the 365 cheaters?

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Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We can't really grasp how harsh the punishment is without seeing what it will be like in two weeks when everyone's unbanned. I bet a lot of them aren't coming back, and those that do will pretty quickly be outed when people realize they're X levels lower than they should be. The devs don't need to publicly shame anyone since the punishment pretty much already does that. Sure they can go /anon, but I'll know for example if Perun cheated when he suddenly cons blue to me (nothing against perun, just an example).

The only thing I'm concerned about is the punishment of resetting their plat to 0, only because it disproportionately punishes some people more than others for the same offense. If someone had 50k but spent it all before they got suspended then they'd get punished less than someone who had 50k but didn't spend it, which isn't fair.

they're given the opportunity to come back and that is already unfair. it's stupid and leaves a really really bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. as for people being "scared" of GMs and uthgaard -- don't be. i think uth has proven more than once that he's a total pussy when it comes to being harsh in controversial decisions that would potentially lead to drama, and mostly guild drama (though i don't think you can get any more clear cut than this), this, though, i'd imagine is a staff-wide decision and an incredibly shitty one at that.

on emulated servers where people don't pay to play there already are going to be higher incidents of players cheating and you have to be forceful and heavy-handed when dealing with these decisions to deter it from happening in the future. i'd be willing to bet, and judging by the names, quite a few of the people cheating are oldschool p99ers that have probably been doing it for a long time now. deleting their banked $$ and deleveling them to 54 isn't a punishment or even a slap on the wrist when they've gotten so many items from who knows how many SEQ'd trackers and raids or SEQ mapped dungeon darts to mobs. for the majority of people who don't play this game daily and don't have enough time to get those items and see these encounters, even knowing that these people who cheated there way there will be back in 2 weeks, doesn't matter under what conditions, is super fucking shitty. does the staff owe us anything? no. but at the moment they're not even backing their own server rules and having the balls to provide a relatively clean server by purging those that had to get any advantage that they possibly could. you don't exactly owe them anything either and right now the legit players just got a swift kick in the teeth because the staff decided to pussy out.