Blizzard bans and you: the dichotomy

Over at CNET, they’ve got a news feature up about the mess behind banning people for supposedly violating the terms of service, and there’s an interesting dichotomy that needs to be considered here.

On the one hand, players are saying that there’s a lack of due course for getting kicked out of the game. Sometimes, things that seem like cheating, such as exorbitantly fast levelling, is nothing more than dedicated play. Even more important is the fact that there’s no warning, which really dampens the spirit of dedicated players.

As one of those fast levellers put it, “I think Blizzard is being too tough on their issues with exploitation and like many others, I have fallen (victim) to their harsh system of banning people like me. And when I say ‘like me,’ I mean people who play lots and level up very fast.”

On the other hand, there are others who speculate that guilty parties are banned but fight tooth and nail for their right to stay and play. And of course, some banned folks simply neglect to read the terms of service which they manage to violate. Blizzard isn’t the type of company out to alienate their fanbase, and they also assert that they’re doing thorough checks when they do perform these necessary actions.

There isn’t much of an answer behind the article, but it does go and explain the two sides of the coin that happens when a banning occurs, and we suppose that’s best some of us can ask for at a moment’s notice, when we wake up one morning, see the banning, and ask ourselves if we were wronged or if we were wrong to begin with.

Via CNET

Over at CNET, they’ve got a news feature up about the mess behind banning people for supposedly violating the terms of service, and there’s an interesting dichotomy that needs to be considered here.

On the one hand, players are saying that there’s a lack of due course for getting kicked out of the game. Sometimes, things that seem like cheating, such as exorbitantly fast levelling, is nothing more than dedicated play. Even more important is the fact that there’s no warning, which really dampens the spirit of dedicated players.

As one of those fast levellers put it, “I think Blizzard is being too tough on their issues with exploitation and like many others, I have fallen (victim) to their harsh system of banning people like me. And when I say ‘like me,’ I mean people who play lots and level up very fast.”

On the other hand, there are others who speculate that guilty parties are banned but fight tooth and nail for their right to stay and play. And of course, some banned folks simply neglect to read the terms of service which they manage to violate. Blizzard isn’t the type of company out to alienate their fanbase, and they also assert that they’re doing thorough checks when they do perform these necessary actions.

There isn’t much of an answer behind the article, but it does go and explain the two sides of the coin that happens when a banning occurs, and we suppose that’s best some of us can ask for at a moment’s notice, when we wake up one morning, see the banning, and ask ourselves if we were wronged or if we were wrong to begin with.

Via CNET