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PlanetSide 2 Calls Out & Bans "Scumbag"

[Dec 05, 2012, 10:58 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

John Smedley tweets about banning a "scumbag" from PlanetSide 2, getting rid of a culprit in widely reported hacking incidents in the MMOFPS sequel, saying: "Haruhi at http://artificialaiming.com was just banned. all 3 of his accounts. Goodbye you scumbag. Find a new hobby or get good at the game." He adds the cheater hunt will continue: "we don't need to cross reference anything. Use it.. we'll find you. we'll find your family. we'll hunt you down." Thanks Eurogamer.

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Re: PlanetSide 2 Calls Out & Bans

Dec 5, 2012, 15:09

WarpCrow

eRe4s3r wrote on Dec 5, 2012, 12:58: Social pressure means their closest friends Not some abstract community. The inner circle of their monkeysphere, so to speak. Most cheaters on the Internet would instantly stop if we could get into their inner circle and chastise them there. It doesn't need violence or any other method, chastising them to their CLOSEST friend is all that's needed. Of course, shaming them by real name is the approach vector for that, but in a sense that's like the nuclear weapon ;p By the way -> http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html Well, yes, if a person close to them makes a big deal out of them cheating then they might just stop, but that can't always happen and I don't think it means we shouldn't try to shoot them down where we can. You can't just leave them alone to wreak havoc as they please. It might not stop the dedicated ones, but at least it's a speed bump and it might cause others to stop and consider whether they want to risk losing their legitimately earned progress. Either way, it's important to show the players that they're doing something. I've seen communities die in a large part because you could cheat or bot without consequence and it was taken advantage of extensively enough that people got sick of it.

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Comment [quote="WarpCrow"Dec 5, 2012, 15:09][quote="eRe4s3r"Dec 5, 2012, 12:58]Social pressure means their closest friends ;) Not some abstract community. The inner circle of their monkeysphere, so to speak. Most cheaters on the Internet would instantly stop if we could get into their inner circle and chastise them there. It doesn't need violence or any other method, chastising them to their CLOSEST friend is all that's needed. Of course, shaming them by real name is the approach vector for that, but in a sense that's like the nuclear weapon ;p By the way -> http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html [/quote] Well, yes, if a person close to them makes a big deal out of them cheating then they might just stop, but that can't always happen and I don't think it means we shouldn't try to shoot them down where we can. You can't just leave them alone to wreak havoc as they please. It might not stop the dedicated ones, but at least it's a speed bump and it might cause others to stop and consider whether they want to risk losing their legitimately earned progress. Either way, it's important to show the players that they're doing b[something]b. I've seen communities die in a large part because you could cheat or bot without consequence and it was taken advantage of extensively enough that people got sick of it. [/quote]

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