Verant seems to do that alot. They always seem to assume that the players
are guilty of some wrongdoing.
They are so concerned about making things "fair" that they make it unfair
for the players. They ban players for taking advantage of bugs or any
advantage they have over mobs yet mobs can still hit players through walls
and solid objects, can walk thru objects (like trees, walls, stones), and
can hit from 5 feet away when the players can't hit. They can manage to be
invisible and unhittable to the player yet that is considered "fair".
Also, when a player dies, his/her pet disappears. but when a mob dies, it's
pet stays and can kill the players. I think that's wrong. Verant needs to
work on making the game a little more fair for the players again.
I know people who refuse to get EQ until they fix the mobs walking thru
trees and walls bit. oh, and mobs can run straight up vertical surfaces with
no problem while players can't. that's another problem that needs to be
worked out.
luv,
-Su
> > Prior to banning any accounts reported as compromised, we will
> > conduct a thorough review of the accounts in question and determine
> > the appropriate course of action on those accounts. Accounts will only
> > be banned based on information gathered through our investigation and
> > not merely as a result of external allegations.
> >
>
> >From my understanding, this bit was added to avoid cases like that
pointed
> out by Mu, when someone may have a personal vendetta against you and may
> somehow find out your account username then call up Verant and claim that
> you stole their account just to have your account banned. A rudimentary
> investigation would probably turn up who the original account owner was.
>
> However, I don't think this type of investigation would protect against a
> real "hack" of Verants systems. If a completely unrelated third party
> were to obtain username and passwords to accounts on Verants systems, I
> would think it to be difficult for the owner of a compromised account to
> prove that they didn't give out any account information. It seems to have
> been turned into a case of guilty until proven innocent. Although this in
> no way benefits the victim (owner of compromised account), Verant is a
> business and businesses are in it to make money. This probably seemed
> like the most economical solution for them with little work on their end
> and "should" not have negative effects on the largest portion of the user
> base.
>
>
> mac
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