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Originally Posted by booter
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The cheaters who will be joining us again soon won't be cheating anymore. They'll be caught and permanently removed if they do it again, since we know the staff can detect it.
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We know the staff
could detect it. Right now we see announced on the front page that they can't at present. In any event, we don't know that future offenders will be banned, because the precedent isn't that. It's the opposite.
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Originally Posted by booter
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Does everyone agree that they should be able to play again? No. Are they going to be? Yes. Were there more variables to the staff's decision than most players probably realize? Most definitely.
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The other variables? Those are what trouble me. There should be no other variables. This has always been
THEIR server, furiously so when defending unpopular decisions. Now they catch hundreds of accounts perverting
THEIR server and, well? Suddenly the cheaters aren't the server's detriment, but rather the users disgusted by their displayed lack of testicular fortitude? Suddenly in-game subversiveness is less harmful to the server than out of game candor?
Bullshit.
The main variable is good ol' fashioned hypocrisy. It's easy to say you'll do the hard thing, but when it comes time to do it and it's still the same hard thing, well not everyone can do that. And that's best-case scenario right there: that it was just too difficult a thing to eliminate that many presumably high-profile accounts. That it was too unpalatable. And that is just disappointing.