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Originally Posted by SearyxTZ
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It's annoying that such a huge positive (a legitimate method of hack prevention) is being turned into a negative because people like to complain or create drama.
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It's not complaining and it's not drama. Many of us feel like they dropped the ball when they could have done far more, and we, the non-hacking playerbase, have been handed the short end of the stick considering how lenient the punishments were in comparison to those that have been dished out before and even what the rules themselves state. Throw in some of the other recent decisions, or lack thereof, and you've got a boiling pot that's spilling over. The feud between the devs certainly didn't help, but it's also something that's not new to P99 (it's happened before and this one has gone on for the better part of a year)
This last decision, the one regarding the cheaters, was so bad that I called it quits.
As I said, the staff will make mistakes just as the community will -- we're all human. Sometimes the mistakes are the players' not abiding by the rules (an extreme would be using a third-party program) and sometimes the staff's mistake is not enforcing the rules (the extreme of playing favorites or not banning third-party program-using players).
It's their decision and it's their server. Fine. That's something we all knew going in. But when creating p99 the staff felt there were some cardinal sins that simply were unforgivable -- the rules. But when joining p99, I too felt there were some things that the were unforgivable -- hence rules. Both the staff and the players were expected to abide by them. My interpretation and their interpretation meshed and I joined this server. Had I known how things would go down since then I wouldn't have joined over a year ago. I myself have wavered and I've perhaps broken a dumb rule here and there (I admit I've RnF'd a bit in GC =P and I've trained my guild once or twice. It's hard pulling fear as a wizard), but I never committed a cardinal sin, because had I done it I'd expect to be shown the door. The staff too has made some silly decisions over that time, but I feel they didn't live up to their end of the bargain.
Nothing emotional, no sissy shit. I walked away from the game and am offering to walk away from the forums if they feel they're not changing their minds on that single, and admittedly rather important, decision.
As for HBB: it sort of transcends the forum rules at this point, dude. Do you think me telling nilb0g that i quit in a private message because they made this decision would even warrant a response at all? At least he's reading it, and you know what? I'm glad everyone else is as well.