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EVE Bans Exploiters; Dropping 2% of Users Cuts Average CPU Usage 30%
Earthquake Retrofit writes "Ars has a story about EVE Online banning thousands of accounts for real-world trading of in-game money for profit. From the article: 'Those who buy and sell ISK, the game's currency, are not only exploiting the game, but unbalancing play. That's why the company decided to go drastic: a program they called "Unholy Rage." For weeks they studied the behavior and effects these real-money traders had on the game, and then they struck. During scheduled maintenance, over 6,000 accounts were banned. [Einar Hreiðarsson, EVE's lead GM,] assures us that the methods were sound, and the bannings went off with surgical precision. ... While the number of accounts banned in the opening phase of the operation constituted around 2 percent of the total active registered accounts, the CPU per user usage was cut by a good 30 percent.' Looks like they got the right 6,000.' Further information and more graphs are available from the EVE dev blog."
They are paying to play the same game as everyone else, and deserve the right to do what they want with their time. Denying you the right to play the game as you see fit, and do with your time as you see fit, is really no different than some of the DRM schemes we see and complain about daily here on /.
Where's the insult? Confusing revenues and profits is sloppy.
If you really are the mod who chucked in a Flamebait, you should have commented from a browser where you weren't logged in, it were undone.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Because I said "might have been". I'm encouraging clear language use, not making any assertions about how the 2% drop in revenues will impact their profits.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Maybe I have gotten the wrong end of the stick here, but perhaps the way to "execute" players in the game is NOT just to turn off their accounts, but give them a chance to fight back, or redeem themselves.
Who has has never thought about all of those tyrannical regimes, like the ones the US is so keen to fight against, that if they were to be executed, you wouldnt just lie down on the table and say goodbye. Anyone who tried to kill me, I would kill every motherfucker in that room UNTIL I was dead, I mean, I would strangle, bite, break, snap, bitch, refuse to cooperate, mad dog time. That goes for the US, Iran, the taleban, anyone, cmon bitches, come get some, if you can win, bad for me, if I can win, good for me. Before someone says it, I'm a computer programmer, so what most likely would happen, is that I would TRY to come up with some jackie chan bullshit, get smacked in the face, pinned to the ground and totally bitchslapped, I mean, I'm a computer programmer, not a martial artist and most of you guys are in the same boat. But you would at least TRY it? right??? I mean, what you gonna lose?? you're gonna be dead in 10 minutes anyway, if you score some kills, good for you!!! in 10 minutes, you'll be dead anyway, so who cares
Anyone here watched a beheading video and think, FUCK!!! Why didnt the guy take someone with him, the second those crazy islamics opened their mouth, TRY to fight, TRY to win, TRY to go down fighting, not like a pussy getting dunked into a bucket of water.
FUCK EM, you wanna kill me, come get some. like I said before.
SO, perhaps the best way is to notify you have been marked for execution by the police and get hunted down, you can't mine for gold if you're getting your ass bitched around the universe, I mean, what better way to go down, what better adrenaline rush, even if you never win, even if you constantly have to buy a new ship, you'll have the most exciting game you ever played for the time you get to play it, if you WIN, then fuck me, you really are fucking cool, ok, you win, back off and perhaps that person just goes onto a watch list, someone to be careful about, perhaps get banished to the badlands and you have to fight it out like the hard bastard you are, but your mining days are probably over.
I mean, wouldnt that be the better solution? If you get killed, use all your money, can't play anymore cause the police just kick your ass within 30 minutes of playing, then so be it, but at least you can TRY to win and then when you have nothing left, you can just quit and say you couldnt win anymore and you tried your hardest.
you see my point? You want to create a universe that is all seeing all doing, lifelike and real, yet then you pull up the admin console, click the account, select delete and bingo, the guy gets his account "executed" That to me is cheating, if you want to take me alive in real life, you have to get me cornered in a liquor store somewhere in the middle of nowhere and I have no bullets left. There is no admin console, I give up and you arrest+execute me, or I go down guns blazing.
if you want to pretend it's a real world, stop using tools that don't exist in the real world.
This is simply not true, as there is no such thing as this "gold" you speak of in EVE. Also, math fail.
Maybe just maybe if you didn't create a game that cries out to be exploited in this manner in the first place then you might not have all of these problems. To create the opportunity for the otherwise smart or unemployed to make money in your game -- and then expect them not to because you said just don't do it -- indicates great stupidity on your part.
After you've made this mistake you end up having to go in on a massive cleanup operation that you hope won't bury you in bad press and collateral damage.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Sorry, but EVE has been one of those train-wreck scenarios from the get-go (why I've avoided it). Everyone, including the devs, have been participating in the whole RMT/botting/etc debacle.
What's really happened here is that the developers of EVE have cornered the market for RMT in their game in a way only they could.
For anyone still playing the game. Other than having lost the money-holders in your cartel (and being out millions or billions of ISK), there's nothing to see here. Business as usual.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!