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um, no, it actually did happen. In their datamining or whatever, they misinterpreted some level pacted toons as exploiting MA due to going from level 1 to 50 in a short time. Some toons were deleted and some temp bans handed out that should not have been. These were appealed, reviewed, fixed, etc.
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As I said, I have no firsthand knowledge of this. I have not, nor do I know anyone who has, received these temporary "by mistake" bans or deletions. So far, everyone I know who has received a ban has been targeted for a specific, valid reason. I asked Belle, who is around a lot more than I am, if she has heard of anyone getting banned, and she says she hasn't heard anything about it.
I'm not going to claim that there have been mathematically zero of them. However, if there have been any, I most certainly will assert that they have been a statistical anomaly, a very rare outlier, and that customer support has addressed the issue to the best of their ability.
People representing that this is a widespread issue are, at best, grossly misrepresenting the scope of a non-problem.
That's why I say to everyone to take these claims worth a grain of salt. Go out and ask a few people on the streets of Paragon City if they have met with these bans of epic proportions. I'm 100% convinced that in pretty short order, anyone who does so will see these claims for the sham that they are. There were no mass bannings without cause. This is not some kind of conspiracy or even a real controversy.
Claims of mass "by mistake" bannings are wild, baseless allegations by people who have an ax to grind with the developers. It's a bogeyman for the express purpose of scaring normal players into thinking that they'll be targeted next, thus adding to the drama and outrage. If someone sees a message saying that a bunch of people have been banned for no reason, their natural reaction is, "Wow, that's just not right!" Maybe they'll even feed the troll and post a reply saying that they don't think that's a good thing.
Yeah, except for the tiny little detail that it didn't happen. People are not being banned en masse. A very, very few statistical anomalies (if it even happened at all) do not a movement make. In theory, I suppose these people think it's an effective method of extorting the developers into changing a long-standing policy of punishing players who break the rules. In reality, it's not working, and that just makes them madder, thus all the troll posts and "I'm leaving!" threads.
Meanwhile, in Paragon City, life goes on as normal. Just last night, I was on a pick-up group for a while, and the subject never even came up. No one was concerned in the least about whether we would be punished or banned for anything, as far as I know, no one had been banned accidentally (at least, no one complained about it, which would have been kind of odd if they had been). It was just another fun evening of fighting crime.
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And once again Tony proves how far out of touch with reality he really is.
lol.
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um, no, it actually did happen. In their datamining or whatever, they misinterpreted some level pacted toons as exploiting MA due to going from level 1 to 50 in a short time. Some toons were deleted and some temp bans handed out that should not have been. These were appealed, reviewed, fixed, etc.
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As I said, I have no firsthand knowledge of this. I have not, nor do I know anyone who has, received these temporary "by mistake" bans or deletions. So far, everyone I know who has received a ban has been targeted for a specific, valid reason. I asked Belle, who is around a lot more than I am, if she has heard of anyone getting banned, and she says she hasn't heard anything about it.
I'm not going to claim that there have been mathematically zero of them. However, if there have been any, I most certainly will assert that they have been a statistical anomaly, a very rare outlier, and that customer support has addressed the issue to the best of their ability.
People representing that this is a widespread issue are, at best, grossly misrepresenting the scope of a non-problem.
That's why I say to everyone to take these claims worth a grain of salt. Go out and ask a few people on the streets of Paragon City if they have met with these bans of epic proportions. I'm 100% convinced that in pretty short order, anyone who does so will see these claims for the sham that they are. There were no mass bannings without cause. This is not some kind of conspiracy or even a real controversy.
Claims of mass "by mistake" bannings are wild, baseless allegations by people who have an ax to grind with the developers. It's a bogeyman for the express purpose of scaring normal players into thinking that they'll be targeted next, thus adding to the drama and outrage. If someone sees a message saying that a bunch of people have been banned for no reason, their natural reaction is, "Wow, that's just not right!" Maybe they'll even feed the troll and post a reply saying that they don't think that's a good thing.
Yeah, except for the tiny little detail that it didn't happen. People are not being banned en masse. A very, very few statistical anomalies (if it even happened at all) do not a movement make. In theory, I suppose these people think it's an effective method of extorting the developers into changing a long-standing policy of punishing players who break the rules. In reality, it's not working, and that just makes them madder, thus all the troll posts and "I'm leaving!" threads.
Meanwhile, in Paragon City, life goes on as normal. Just last night, I was on a pick-up group for a while, and the subject never even came up. No one was concerned in the least about whether we would be punished or banned for anything, as far as I know, no one had been banned accidentally (at least, no one complained about it, which would have been kind of odd if they had been). It was just another fun evening of fighting crime.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)