Grace Chang
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.04.12 12:05:00 -
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I think you need to look at the whole issue from a different angle.
Obviously you look at it from CCPs view, which probably comes down to "how do we keep a player and generate revenue from him while at the same time we won't upset other players". Your 3-Strike rules seems to me like an attempt to walk that fine line.
Personally, i am not convinced of your metrics that that approach works, for all i know it could be PR (how about some more details?). Also the whole premise of "making a bad player a good player" is flawed in my opinion. A person who bots or cheats doesn't belong into this game, because he doesn't have the necessary mindset to enjoy it in the "right way" to begin with. A cheater or botter has already proven that he is not willing to compete within the ruleset. For "good players" (as you define them), the joy of playing such a competetive game is however fundamentally built on a fair playing ground, if that is gone, the joy is gone (and that should be your greatest fear in my opinion, not the lost revenue from some miscreants). Therefore i would think that a botter/cheater will never be able to enjoy the game it is supposed to be enjoyed - it is not a problem of action, it is a problem of mindset. This mindset is also the reason that a person that cheats in FPS games will never seriously attempt at getting better at the game, he will focus his efforts at not being detected the next time.
Which brings us to the proposed changes. As a person who enjoys this game for its competetiveness i don't see a reason why i should tolerate you ruining my fun just to get some extra bucks from people who don't really deserve a second chance. It should be your responsibility that the rules you set up for this game get enforced, if you don't do that (what you actually do with your 3-Strike rule) they are not really rules to be taken seriously to begin with.
What the proposed changes will do is to allow players to enforce YOUR rules socially, that you are unwilling to enforce because of financial reasons and that you are unable to enforce of technical reasons (that part you are really not to blame for, cheats cannot really be completely avoided on general purpose computing plattforms, but still you are quite far away from what can be done technically)
So, yes i think scarlet letters are great. It will allow me to shut out players from my gameplay, players which you should have shut out from the game in my opinion. Therefore it is only the second best option, but you owe players that abide to the rules that much at least. At the end of the day i don't want to be CCPs unvoluntary propationer. It is not about you, CCP, it is about the players that stick to the rules. |