lol what?
and sure, this mod is made for free (can you think of any paid mods though?) by the dev's. making this game was their hobby, and also a good learning experience for them so they can go on to make their new game and hopefully have a huge success.
but you forget, they aren't the ones policing us. they gave this game to the community essentially, and rewarded all the "outstanding, righteous, role model players, etc. etc." with admin positions. then from their as time went on these admins recruited new admins, who recruited new admins and so forth. or in other words, become friends with an admin, and get free favors. so yeah, we aren't being told what to do by the devs and haven't been for a long time. did this guy get banned by a dev? no. in short, yeah the devs are nice guys for giving us a great mod. and no, no one is forcing any of us to play it. its free to play. which only enhances the fact that this should be a laid back experience. if u pay premium ($60, usually, or whatever the local exchange rates might be for you folks across the pond) for a brand new game from a well known developer or publisher, u expect to be buying into a "serious" or "structured" game with rules that are enforced. i.e. games used to always have punkbuster to ensure there were no hackers. and you paid for that service. here, this is all done by nice volunteers. potentially corrupt, but still, volunteers. they arent getting paid and we arent paying them. now, to get back on topic, nothing sets them apart from us, other than they have been privileged by knowing another admin and therefore acquiring adminship. anyways, this is a very community-centric game. and forever-banning people from this game just detracts from this community.
is he a trolling scum? maybe, to some. but he is still part of crpg. heck, if this mod had 0 trolling, and u get permabanned for braking any rule more than once, then this mod would be long, long dead. and not to mention just straight up boring. i for one like some trolling every now and again. as before stated by a couple, the best times are when u see guys dueling their teammates/friends, or just jerking around. not everyone is here for a constant x5 multi in siege or battle. its a GAME. and in case you are not aware, according to the dictionary,game is defined as: "activity engaged in for diversion or amusement."
so yeah... games are played for fun. for a diversion from everyday, mundane life. a community-driven game should not be a pick and choose kind of environment. what type of people make something fun, and dont let others be a part of it based off of past actions and otherwise just extreme prejudice?
should punishments exist? yes. should they be nearly as harsh as they are? hell no.
i am quite happy here, thanks for asking. but that happiness is slowly drifting away as i see friends and acquaintances alike being pushed further and further away due to poor administrative decisions. people have just gotten fed up with being banned often and GTX, while others, like the case here, get banned for the dumbest of reasons so the one time the mess up "majorly" they get no 2nd chance. and the reason why i still bother playing such a frustratingly unbalanced and broken and dying mod is just to hang with all the community members that ive called friends over my time here. and yet people insist on taking those people away, slowly ensuring the death of this mod. and i am quite glad no one forces me to play, otherwise i would be quite miserable wasting my life playing this all day long. but at least i will never be as miserable as u appear now; caring so much about some imaginary money or experience in a game that is really only sucking up precious hours of your (real) life. i mean come on. this is a game. its not like he robbed you, or made something u paid for give you a bad experience. as u said. FREE TO PLAY. you have lost NOTHING by this guy teamkilling you.
i hate to generalize, or be prejudiced in any way, as there are evidently plenty of cool guys who play in EU (like butan, for instance), but really... so far it seems almost all of you guys are just butthurt that you might have lost a multi in that siege round and therefore want to ruin this one guy's crpg career, and all those who know him as more than a "useless trolling nerd," forever. if this be the case then fine, ban him from EU, he is not from there anyways. i see no way in which all this complaining should affect his return to NA. so far the only 2 NA guys (that i know of) to post here, besides the accused himself, have been pro-unban. what does that say to you?
we are laid back people who enjoy fun? or that we actually know him for more than the 15 seconds he went on a rampage? or we just dont give a flying fuck if people break the rules as long as its all in the name of good fun?
I'm not for banning people, just to clarify this.
Some players just should at least try and learn their lesson.
I enjoy both trolling and chat ramps that some people pull off from time to time.
But there are better ways to ask for an unban if you did something wrong than blaming the others.
Also I agree on some admins being too harsh but from the other side their time is limited and they might not want to deal with every offender tens of times ;-)
Didn't mean to offend you, carry on ;-)
