Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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NCSoft Bans 16,000 Players From Aion
NCSoft plays Whack-a-Mole by going straight to the tunnels.Aion went through an unannounced reboot on the 23rd, and when the servers came back on, 16,000 players in America and Europe found they'd been permanently booted from the MMORPG. There were a few good reasons cited for the bans, ranging from the spam of ads, to gold-farming, to the use of third-party software.
I think it's pretty welcome that NCSoft really put its foot down about its players doing anything underhanded. But do you think taking everyone off the grid so abruptly was maybe unwarranted? Do you think everyone who was banned, innocent or no, at least deserved some kind of preliminary warning? Or do you think they deserved what happened to them?
Source: http://na.aiononline.com/forums/general/view?articleID=9140
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Some action is better than No action. In my opinion some of the things that makes a game great is constant support from the developers. A good game can easily go bad if hackers/farmers/3rd party users are not checked now and then.
As long as the unannounced server shutdowns are not frequent, then it's a small price to pay to keep the game straight. Now if this happened everyday then we might have a problem.
If the innocent were affected beyond a temporary shutdown, then of course, I'd take issue. But if this were just a short-term deal and users were made to understand that bad apples were culled from the mix as a result, I'd be forgiving.
If they were doing underhanded things that they knew they shouldn't be doing, then anyone who got banned deserved it. I can't say I blame them for taking the chance, I mean hey sometimes you just gotta try. But, when you choose to cheat somehow, then you have to be prepared to get caught and suffer the consequences.
As for taking everyone off the grid at once, if that is how they had to do it to make it easier for them to find everyone and make the banning work, then that is fine with me.
I have the same opinion of this, as I do of the issue with the Xboxes not too long ago. If you do something you know you aren't supposed to be doing, that's your decision and you have to take the consequences when/if you get caught. :p No matter what those might be.
down with cheater/hackers..no second chances for them!
Hell yea they got what coming to them. If by some chance they got an innocent person, they can always email and talk it over but the gold farmer accounts will just buy another account. (So yay more money for them anyway XD)
A temporary shut down is exactly that. Temporary. I don't think the people who were actually playing should whine (if they are.) As unfair as it is, It's still a GAME and nothing to be upset over. :) Go get some air, take a pee break, call home to mom or W/E
The knowledge that you're doing something wrong should be warning enough that you could lose your privileges at any moment.
That said, it's a little shitty to knock everyone offline to do it, unless it was in the wee hours of the morning or something. But I have no knowledge of how a company like that operates to be able to judge if it was necessary or not, and being unable to play for a few hours is really a trivial thing.
Just like warcraft, you want to get rid of people who do that. However I feel that it looks badly upon the game to do so, so soon after its' launch.
I can tell whoever posted this hasn't been playing games for very long.
Lineage 2. Do your research, see what happens if NCSoft doesn't do this.
aion had seriously so many spammers that people just left~ that and all the bots. I think a warning should go out (perhaps a 1 week ban?) and then the 2nd time it's a permanent ban. @shiro_hayate@xanga - i think it's always a balance between banning to maintain fair/competitive game play and revenue. I still don't understand why NCSoft do not employ methods like Blizzard to stop spammers. :(
@Casa_blanca_lilies@xanga - Same. What happened with Lineage 2 was really err...sad, for lack of a better term. I actually resubbed to Aion recently and the amount of spam has been cut down drastically. However, at like 5-6AM EST the spam gets really bad again. I don't know how Blizz got rid of virtually all the spam but NCSoft West needs to do the same.
Warnings should always be given out first then if action is continued after wards then a ban should take place. If no warning then a temporary ban should be given first before warranting a permanent one.