Randolk
28th June 2013, 11:22
Hello all,
Recently, a few players have decided to kick party members from the group after a boss dies or just before it dies, to prevent other party members from looting.
This is a pretty small-minded thing to do, obviously, and we have zero tolerance for it.
I usually do not believe in banning players for "soft" exploits (like abusing the cow level bug), because that's up to us to fix. But I do believe in aggressive, long-term bans for players who directly try and hurt another player's fun.
We log player activity in a detailed manner, so tomorrow I will be asking for an analysis of the logs and ban every player who has done this from the beginning of time. It's very easy to tell who does it intentionally based on the timing of a boss kill and the timing of them kicking other party members.
Anyone who has done the "kick entire party after boss dies but before they can loot" even once will be banned. The first offense will be mandatory 1-year ban. Second offense will be lifetime ban.
If you have done this, I suggest you make a new account and transfer as much of your gear as you can to that account, since you will be locked out of your current account when we get around to banning you.
I will offer a one-time amnesty option: If you are someone who did this, and you publicly post a sincere apology in this thread, I will reduce your first offense ban from 1 year to 1 week. Your deadline will be anytime before I have time to review the data.
In addition, if any player has solid screenshots or video of someone doing this or any other clearly "evil" action that is intended to hurt other players, we will use your information in conjunction with our data to issue bans. Please send your information to customer service and link this thread. Even a player name that has done this is fine, just send it to customer service.
Feel free to fraps your runs and report anyone who you come across performing this cowardly activity.
Zero tolerance for griefing, as it should be.
Thanks for your tiime.
FAQ:
- No honest players will be banned. It's easy to see the difference. No bans unless we are sure it's intentional, specific griefing.
- This does not apply to accidental kicking or regular party kicking that happens all the time, that's perfectly fine.
- This only applies to the few individuals who are intentionally griefing. If you have any doubts, then you are safe.
- Please don't post players names on this forum, just send to infomration to CS and they will take appropriate action.
- Only email CS if you have solid proof, otherwise we'll just take care of it.
- Most of the people who have done this have bragged about it on some forum.
- We understand the occasional accidental kick or joke kick to your buddies or kicking afk players, etc. None of those are a problem.
- In the 1 in a million chance you have a ban and you are innocent - no problem, just reply to the email from CS and we'll talk it through.
- Enjoy your weekend, apparently Rockjaw is having a big sale for 4th of July.
quando fanno così mi viene barzotto :drool:
Recently, a few players have decided to kick party members from the group after a boss dies or just before it dies, to prevent other party members from looting.
This is a pretty small-minded thing to do, obviously, and we have zero tolerance for it.
I usually do not believe in banning players for "soft" exploits (like abusing the cow level bug), because that's up to us to fix. But I do believe in aggressive, long-term bans for players who directly try and hurt another player's fun.
We log player activity in a detailed manner, so tomorrow I will be asking for an analysis of the logs and ban every player who has done this from the beginning of time. It's very easy to tell who does it intentionally based on the timing of a boss kill and the timing of them kicking other party members.
Anyone who has done the "kick entire party after boss dies but before they can loot" even once will be banned. The first offense will be mandatory 1-year ban. Second offense will be lifetime ban.
If you have done this, I suggest you make a new account and transfer as much of your gear as you can to that account, since you will be locked out of your current account when we get around to banning you.
I will offer a one-time amnesty option: If you are someone who did this, and you publicly post a sincere apology in this thread, I will reduce your first offense ban from 1 year to 1 week. Your deadline will be anytime before I have time to review the data.
In addition, if any player has solid screenshots or video of someone doing this or any other clearly "evil" action that is intended to hurt other players, we will use your information in conjunction with our data to issue bans. Please send your information to customer service and link this thread. Even a player name that has done this is fine, just send it to customer service.
Feel free to fraps your runs and report anyone who you come across performing this cowardly activity.
Zero tolerance for griefing, as it should be.
Thanks for your tiime.
FAQ:
- No honest players will be banned. It's easy to see the difference. No bans unless we are sure it's intentional, specific griefing.
- This does not apply to accidental kicking or regular party kicking that happens all the time, that's perfectly fine.
- This only applies to the few individuals who are intentionally griefing. If you have any doubts, then you are safe.
- Please don't post players names on this forum, just send to infomration to CS and they will take appropriate action.
- Only email CS if you have solid proof, otherwise we'll just take care of it.
- Most of the people who have done this have bragged about it on some forum.
- We understand the occasional accidental kick or joke kick to your buddies or kicking afk players, etc. None of those are a problem.
- In the 1 in a million chance you have a ban and you are innocent - no problem, just reply to the email from CS and we'll talk it through.
- Enjoy your weekend, apparently Rockjaw is having a big sale for 4th of July.
quando fanno così mi viene barzotto :drool:
