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Originally Posted by Anger
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Not quite sure I follow, but lets talk about the numbers then.
If they ban every one of those accounts, it's a good deal of potential profit that they may or may not lose.
If they don't ban any of them ever then P99 gets branded as a "classic EQ server that you can cheat on to get ahead", turning what i'd imagine would be even more people away from the server/turning away current good standing people that already play here.
Really they did the best thing in that aspect by allowing the one time '"grace period" for said accounts. Shows current/potential players that cheating isn't tolerated, while keeping the players of those 365 accounts around for more potential profit.
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Looking at it as 365 accounts were all cheaters is one thing.
However, there is no telling how many where actually flagged because they left it on when they logged into p99 and never used it (meaning they didn't cheat with it). These were supposedly getting overturned. So the 365 accounts suspended is most likely not 365 suspended accounts for cheating, just 365 flagged accounts as possible cheaters (and some where).
Without actually having the numbers and knowing how many got over turned and what IP's had the most accounts as actual cheaters and so forth it's all speculation.
I don't think it is as bad as you say it is, and it's probably not as light as I say. I am sure it wouldn't hurt the server to see 100-150 actual cheating people leave the server. Especially seeing how they have said before that even if no one played on the server they would continue to develop p99.