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Yes it would. Otherwise we have the scenario of shoplifter being caught. Getting banned for 24 hours. Getting caught again, being banned for a week. Then if they wait longer than 6 months (before being caught) then they can shoplift again and just get another 24 hour ban… oh and all their shoplifting friends can do the same. Shoplift in perpetuity, just make sure there’s 6 gap between second and 3 offence.
Why should the store that’s being robbed entertain implementing a ‘’merciful’ banning system that lessens dissatisfaction on the part of the shoplifter (players?). Don’t rob from the store in first place!
It's sad to see that some of the top tier allies have gotten there undeservingly. It's been a known problem and it's finally being addressed. Where would those players be if they didn't do the things that got them banned in the first place?
Crazy thing is that with the amount of money they spend, they could have brute forced the content themselves instead of using 3rd part apps and mercs. Maybe they'd appreciate their progress and rosters a bit more if that happened.
MCOC will be just fine without them. As I have said before in some threads, people who think a few whales carries this game isn't thinking big enough. A few players dropping thousands of dollars on this game pales in comparison to the number of microtransactions that occur on a dilly basis.
Using a Merc or being a Merc is not harmless. Offering services for a product that does not belong to someone is illegal. They have never pursued legal action to the best of my knowledge, but they could certainly sue if they wanted to. It's not the same as someone spending to get ahead.
When someone breaks the rules, they violate the ToS. It's entirely up to Kabam to decide how, when, and if they want to act on it. This is not a cut-and-dry situation. Some instances they allow temporary bans. Other instances, in particularly egregious circumstances, it's a permanent ban immediately. That's their call to make. I'm sorry, but we don't get to break the rules and choose the consequences. Here or in life.
I have no idea if you're talking about your Account or not, but there is no justification for cheating. Not the length of time they've been here, not spending, not their astrological sign, nothing is a pass. If they break the rules, they bring it on themselves.
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Yeah no...
I'm [removed], thanks for asking.
Not sure how op thought he was going to gain any sympathy from the community on this one but based on how he abandoned this post it's pretty clear that he heavily misread the room.
The most common reason why a player might get permanently banned apparently out of nowhere is when they do something that is detected as a bannable offense, and then when the fair play team researches the account they discover the account has actually been flagrantly violating terms of service for an extended period of time or in multiple independent occasions. For example, because Kabam's detection process evolves over time, it is possible for a player to cheat in a way that Kabam did not originally detect, but when they are detected cheating much later the more sophisticated techniques and tools discover they have been cheating for a while, and that can be taken into account when they are banned.
In other cases, Kabam may discover that a particular kind of cheating has been ramping up and becoming commonplace, and they will in those cases sometimes send out specific warnings about such activity being prohibited, using in-game messages, forum posts, and in other venues. Flagrant disregard for such warnings with continued exploitation of those techniques can, in some cases, trigger an immediate and permanent ban.
Nobody gets perma-banned for making one small mistake. You either have to cheat a lot of little times, cheat with flagrant disregard, or cheat epicly. And if you do, it doesn't matter if you've been here for years. It doesn't matter if you've spent a lot of money. It doesn't matter if you feel bad about it later. It doesn't matter if getting banned with hurt your feelings. If the game means enough to you that you can't afford to risk losing access to it, its on you to not take those risks.
I can sympathize to some degree with players who are perma banned and react negatively to being disconnected from something that they valued. However, that's life. If you can't deal with being banned from a game as legitimate punishment for cheating in that game then you lack the life skills necessary to deal with the rest of regular life. You're someone willing to risk the things that have the most value to you because you think the world owes you a safety blanket. This is the least important thing that attitude is going to lose you. There are jobs to lose, homes to lose, spouses to lose, retirement savings to lose.
You say "I feel it is past time for Kabam to recognize the consequences of such irrevocable actions on its players' lives and begin to rectify." No. It is time for players to recognize the consequences of their actions on their own lives and rectify that by not taking risks they can't afford to lose.
And this bears repeating. Cheating doesn't cheat Kabam. Cheating cheats other players. You know how much money the Kabam developers lose out of their pockets when someone cheats? None. You know how much money Kabam the company loses when someone cheats? None. Cheaters do not take money out of the devs pockets or Kabam's coffers. Cheaters take things from the game that they didn't earn, and as a result force the developers to make the game's resources harder to get for everyone else. Cheaters take things from other players. Cheaters are the kid in class who cheats on the final exam and raises the curve so that the kid who would have gotten an A now gets a B+. The school is out nothing. The teacher is out nothing. Everyone else just gets a lower grade.
Cheaters don't care about the other players. And that's why most of the other players don't care about cheaters either.
At the end of the day, Kabam doesn't ban cheaters because the cheaters injured them and they are taking revenge. Kabam bans cheaters because the cheaters injure the other players, and Kabam has to protect everyone else from cheaters or those players might decide the game isn't worth playing. So yeah, some of those cheaters might have "stuck around with the game" for a long time, but Kabam has to pick a side: side with the minority of cheaters who are hurting everyone else, or side with the majority who don't cheat and just want to play the game free of the consequences of cheaters. When Kabam bans, they are picking a side. They are siding with us, and not with you.