However, we can probably accept that clan leaders can contact someone of the dev team (not me) if a member of them was cheating. We could probably tell that to those people, as I understand they have a justified interest in it.
As long as faction leaders are informed of the vermin in their ranks,
all is well, we can call off both the posse and the witch hunt.
THEN justice is served because - hopefully - our faction leaders would protect us against these cheaters being able to prey more on us.
However, I have to say I too do not feel at ease with the indecision to release the list, first it is proclaimed to hold only 100% cheaters and now, well not so sure with the joystick users apparently? I too would not publish a list of names where I am not 100% everyone on it is guilty, BUT, that also speaks to the failure of the detection then, sadly, IF you trust in your detection then release the list, if you do not trust it, then don't, it is really that simple. Otherwise, check for faults as with the joystick, then remove the false positives and release the character names.
Someone also commented on Civil Right issues, that is a very silly statement to make, I know the law, especially how it applicate online, there is nothing about protecting gamer characters or gamer nicknames in the laws
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE, nothing what so ever
at all. All we have in the gaming world to trust is ourselves, and frankly Vic666 is right (who would have known!) - I've been in and out of the gaming industry for over a decade, in a ton of different fields and I've never seen cheaters be protected like this before -- however some of it indirectly -- but what signal isn't this also sending to people who used that hack and not to mention the guy who created the hack, now he sees that people might get banned, which I doubt he hadn't foreseen, but now just wait for an update on his hack (or a new hack) and then buy a new key. This is the first step to how games become full of cheaters, look at 'gaming history'. Simply banning cheaters is not enough.
Remember, Warband is 5, that is
nothing, not even for a 13 year old, EVERY cheater who is caught WILL buy a new key, find a NEW hack and then return with the same nick just slightly altered, or perhaps a completely new one, either way, all of us honest players, us who donated 24/7 to the game, who try and support the community, and who doesn't cheat or play only with consideration of ourselves, we are cast aside. Very bad decision and move. You will only infest the mod with more cheaters.
I think it is time you think about those who actually support this mod, those who donate to keep it going, cheaters are not here for the community, for you, for us, they're here to ruin the experience for everyone else and derail the development of the game. They do not deserve anything and gaming characters do not have rights, stop bringing 'rights' into an issue like this it is extremely ignorant, we're not talking about releasing peoples real life names, their addresses or even anything that could truly identify them, just simple character names from a small mod.
What this comes down to is whether the development team trusts their detection, or they don't - and since it would seem things as simple as using a joystick would slip by, yea well. Just don't blame it on rights or privacy issues, there is NO ACTUAL LEGAL OBLIGATION. Now. if you simply just do not want to release the list, then sure, that is your provocative, just don't blame it on any sort of legal issue pertaining to gaming - there is none.
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The fit punishment for cheating is the same as in most eSports:
- Life time exclusion from all tournaments (If the player participated in any sort of events/tournaments)
- Permanent ban from the game
- Gamer/Character nickname released
This has worked well for over a decade without anything bad ever to happen. If someone were indeed innocent they would be proclaimed innocent, officially and publicly, I personally do not recall any issues - ever.
* Typos and less raging about cheaters
