Originally by: BlackDog Rackh'am

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Let's be reasonable here. Nobody in their right minds believes that all of BoB are cheaters. Also, nobody in their right minds believes that bob are 100% innocent.

As usual, the truth is somewhere between the two extremes. What i don't like though is the fact that there has not been sufficient punishment handed out in some cases, while it is done so in others selectively.

If it's a bannable offense to reveal player's RL identities and since we have the precedent of Kugutsumen getting banned, maybe SirMolle should be banned too or Kugutsumen should be unbanned. The "have my cake and eat it" attitude seems to be what's p*ssing the community off the most.
What's done is done, but the way it was handled was insufficient.

To sum up, i honestly believe that it's statistically impossible not to have at least a dozen honest players in BoB, even if half their directorship was implicated.

What i'd like to see is said directors come up and apologise...not for the dev scandal per se (it would be an admittion of shared guilt if they did), but for the utter garbage they've been proudly spewing in the face of the community only to be proven wrong and even worse, while there is a high possibility that they did infact know some of what was going on.

What we saw was indeed a lynch mob mentality and a witch hunt. To go all "pitty poor BoB grunts" over it is not appropriate though. In the vein of the witch hunt analogy, BoB's public image was the equivalent of Winona Ryder in the Salem trials film...playing the same joke and revelling on people's paranoia for so long that they missed the stake being built in the town square right before their eyes.

Furthermore, nothing has stopped their public figures from broadly generalising whenever they went against somebody, they have no ground to stand on to resist the same treatment applied to them.

I do believe the average BoB guy is just another player like everyone of us...problem is their vocal ones could never apply the same logic when dealing with their enemies.

Just to use the most recent example, weren't the ASCN members just another group of players out to have fun? Of course they were. Where they all crap at PvP? Of course not, statistically speaking it's as impossible as saying that 100% of BoB cheat. Then why did they demonise the whole lot of them for their leaders mistakes, with the main aim to crush their will to play? Because attacking the enemy's fun factor is what wins wars first and foremost.

It's all fine and dandy by me, but when people are forced to take a taste of their own medicine they should STFU, contemplate how it feels and admit they slipped up, instead of either going "poor me" and making a clown of themselves or going totally absent for a few days in the hope it boils down and they will not be forced to say the one thing they fear most than all the capital ships in the game combined: "I'm sorry guys, we f*ed up"

Where art thou SirMolle, Dianabolic, DBPreacher, Fire 59, Yazoul Samaiel? Poor show...

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