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Not sure how many of you have watched this. It's kinda long, over 30 minutes, and the implicit gloating about the crackdown can be hard to stomach at times. But the Sony people make some interesting comments. They also make some surprising admissions... like admitting that they will never be able to stop cheating entirely, the best they can do is beat it down from time to time like they've done recently. They claim to "hate" plat vendors and make the surely exaggerated claim that "most" cases of account theft are committed by plat sellers who strip the stolen accounts of plat and tradeable gear and even sell the toons involved.
They admit that their goal isn't to ban cheaters immediately... in most cases they went with 3-day suspension, followed by 7-day and only a complete ban after that or in the case of extreme cheaters who they felt were "beyond redemption."
Wilcox, the CS director, says it wasn't unusual for a suspended player to call in, basically admit to their cheating and then threaten to cancel their account if Sony continues to detect and punish cheating! Hard to believe anyone HERE would be dumb enough to make that call!
Interesting discussion about requests for a "Discord" or indeed "Anarchy" server where cheating would be tolerated and GMs would be totally uninvolved except "perhaps" (and this was doubtlessly a joke) to log in once in a while and just randomly delete all the gear of some randomly selected players, presumably to make the server a true anarchic realm. LOL. I think a server this crazy would have some potential... at least, like Wilcox said, for the first few hours.
Check out the video. Given the stress this crackdown has caused our community, it's somewhat strangely reassuring to see the human beings on the other side and the fact that they come across as sincere in trying to keep the playing field level for all players. The webcast is on EQ's Youtube page,
www.youtube.com/user/soevideos
They admit that their goal isn't to ban cheaters immediately... in most cases they went with 3-day suspension, followed by 7-day and only a complete ban after that or in the case of extreme cheaters who they felt were "beyond redemption."
Wilcox, the CS director, says it wasn't unusual for a suspended player to call in, basically admit to their cheating and then threaten to cancel their account if Sony continues to detect and punish cheating! Hard to believe anyone HERE would be dumb enough to make that call!
Interesting discussion about requests for a "Discord" or indeed "Anarchy" server where cheating would be tolerated and GMs would be totally uninvolved except "perhaps" (and this was doubtlessly a joke) to log in once in a while and just randomly delete all the gear of some randomly selected players, presumably to make the server a true anarchic realm. LOL. I think a server this crazy would have some potential... at least, like Wilcox said, for the first few hours.
Check out the video. Given the stress this crackdown has caused our community, it's somewhat strangely reassuring to see the human beings on the other side and the fact that they come across as sincere in trying to keep the playing field level for all players. The webcast is on EQ's Youtube page,
www.youtube.com/user/soevideos