2008-09-03, 02:25 PM
Perfect game world:
a) Nexon makes a perfect game with no bugs, glitches, etc.
b) Players all play legitly - no hacks, no glitch abuse, scamming, etc.
Just because a) didn't come true is no reason for b) to follow suit. The terms that every single player agreed to in the ToS even has specific clauses for exactly that case because they know they're incapable of making a perfect game; no one is perfect. We're not contesting a) at all; we all know that they screwed up. We have no power to enforce it though, short of quitting.
For b), Nexon does have the power to ban the abusers, which is what they've been trying to do. Nexon not learning from their mistake is a big problem, I agree, but that doesn't mean it absolves the players from any responsibility. It's one of Nexon's duties to make sure the player base is playing by the rules. Banning glitchers falls under that mandate. Using the fact that Nexon messed up as an excuse is a cop-out because there will always be problems. No computer software of decent size is issue-free and it's unrealistic to expect it to be. What is realistic to expect is that the issues will be fixed in a reasonable time span when discovered. (and yes, I freely admit that they were a bit slow on their likely temporary fix of lowering its exp)
Also, I haven't been debating lengths of bans since we don't know what the players in question were doing or what the length is based on. I'm just saying that for several people, a ban was warranted.
a) Nexon makes a perfect game with no bugs, glitches, etc.
b) Players all play legitly - no hacks, no glitch abuse, scamming, etc.
Just because a) didn't come true is no reason for b) to follow suit. The terms that every single player agreed to in the ToS even has specific clauses for exactly that case because they know they're incapable of making a perfect game; no one is perfect. We're not contesting a) at all; we all know that they screwed up. We have no power to enforce it though, short of quitting.
For b), Nexon does have the power to ban the abusers, which is what they've been trying to do. Nexon not learning from their mistake is a big problem, I agree, but that doesn't mean it absolves the players from any responsibility. It's one of Nexon's duties to make sure the player base is playing by the rules. Banning glitchers falls under that mandate. Using the fact that Nexon messed up as an excuse is a cop-out because there will always be problems. No computer software of decent size is issue-free and it's unrealistic to expect it to be. What is realistic to expect is that the issues will be fixed in a reasonable time span when discovered. (and yes, I freely admit that they were a bit slow on their likely temporary fix of lowering its exp)
Also, I haven't been debating lengths of bans since we don't know what the players in question were doing or what the length is based on. I'm just saying that for several people, a ban was warranted.