So this week, what have I played so far? About 3 hours of swtor, maybe 3 hours of gw2, a few hours of swg emu and 3 hours of tsw. Listened to a lot of podcasts at work. A little bit of the latest DarthHater, some DCUO Show, some DCUO Unlimited, and some TSW Society. I have a feeling that I've got a few upcoming weeks, or at least 1, of short play sessions (2 hours or less).
If you've been following gw2, or even if you haven't, you've probably heard about the suspensions/bans for both chat / name issues and exploiting/botting (there are reddit threads for these things). As far as the chat/name issues go, I don't side with Beau. I think those people deserve to be shamed and that it will result in a community that at the very least, is no worse than the community in wow and tor. As far as the exploit/botter situation goes, I think ArenaNet is in the wrong. Three day suspensions for botters, but bans for people who "exploited" by buying something ArenaNet made available in game. Everyone knows they're stretching if not breaking TOS by botting, and they know when they're being rude in chat, but it's entirely conceivable that someone could have bought a crap ton of 21 karma weapons without realizing it was broken. It's not like they were exploiting bugged geometry, a vendor with prices that are too low, is not nearly as obvious to someone who hasn't really checked out vendors and stumbled across these. Since there's no way to verify if someone was informed that the situation was clearly a mistake, the should have limited it to 3 day suspensions, including the streamer who admittedly knew the prices were wrong yet streamed himself "exploiting" to (so I read) 3000 people. Give 14 or 30 day bans to botters and you'll get a lot fewer botters. But to ban conceivably naive folks while only wrist slapping someone who knew they were taking advantage of an unintended mechanic (the streamer) and botters (who know they're not playing right). Gah. Makes up for the good karma I feel they earned with the original reddit thread about chat/name violations.
Assuming anyone reads this, what are you up to and do you have any podcasts you recommend (I'm a podcast junkie). I'll be travelling through tsw, gw2, and the swg emu this weekend, feel free to say hi and/or ask how you can add me to your friends list.
If you've been following gw2, or even if you haven't, you've probably heard about the suspensions/bans for both chat / name issues and exploiting/botting (there are reddit threads for these things). As far as the chat/name issues go, I don't side with Beau. I think those people deserve to be shamed and that it will result in a community that at the very least, is no worse than the community in wow and tor. As far as the exploit/botter situation goes, I think ArenaNet is in the wrong. Three day suspensions for botters, but bans for people who "exploited" by buying something ArenaNet made available in game. Everyone knows they're stretching if not breaking TOS by botting, and they know when they're being rude in chat, but it's entirely conceivable that someone could have bought a crap ton of 21 karma weapons without realizing it was broken. It's not like they were exploiting bugged geometry, a vendor with prices that are too low, is not nearly as obvious to someone who hasn't really checked out vendors and stumbled across these. Since there's no way to verify if someone was informed that the situation was clearly a mistake, the should have limited it to 3 day suspensions, including the streamer who admittedly knew the prices were wrong yet streamed himself "exploiting" to (so I read) 3000 people. Give 14 or 30 day bans to botters and you'll get a lot fewer botters. But to ban conceivably naive folks while only wrist slapping someone who knew they were taking advantage of an unintended mechanic (the streamer) and botters (who know they're not playing right). Gah. Makes up for the good karma I feel they earned with the original reddit thread about chat/name violations.
Assuming anyone reads this, what are you up to and do you have any podcasts you recommend (I'm a podcast junkie). I'll be travelling through tsw, gw2, and the swg emu this weekend, feel free to say hi and/or ask how you can add me to your friends list.
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