[UPDATE] Players Banned for Breakdancing in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Xris

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Didn't anyone read the update? The e-mail about getting banned for not dancing in the 'dance zone' was fake, stop making such a fuss about this.
 

shadowmagus

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Yes, let's all not read anything and just post random Bioware hate, despite the whole thing being faked. I hate this community sometimes.
 

Treblaine

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Strazdas said:
Voltano said:
Fappy said:
Are these perma-bans? o_O
I'm curious about that as well. Sure its annoying to PVP players if one person exploits this, but punishing people for exploiting a bug *in your game* seems like the wrong move. Why not just disable the dancing action globally until the bug is fixed?
no, its exactly the RIGHT MOVE. permaban all people exploiting bugs. if you dont its as good as saying "its ok to do it".
How about a perma-ban all EA games from my computer for being such over-reactionary douchebags?
 

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This thread is so funny. All the hate by people who obviously don't play mmos is soooooo funny. Bug exploits have been and are always bannable offenses in mmos. Blizzard bans for them as well. Anyways this is a fake so I guess the hate can stop already.
 

Don't taze me bro

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I was aware of the /getdown command, though never felt inclined to use it. Knowing this, my first thought when reading this headline was 'I bet it's a fake'.

I was not disappointed.
 

Ashley Blalock

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So spend money to upgrade your computer because they didn't think people with older computers should play their game.

Spend what $60 to buy the game and then about $15 a month to play the game.

Only to get banned from the game because they have a bug in the game and it caught on like crazy and gamers like to win.

Great business model there. People willing to pay you monthly just to play a game and then you want to ban the people giving you money. I could almost understand on a game like WoW that's huge enough and around long enough not to miss any players, but starting out and having to fight Blizzard's 800 pound gorilla maybe barriers to playing the game isn't the smoothest of moves.
 

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Hail Der Bioware!! These guys SUCK! who exactly do they think gamers are? If you have a bug it WILL be used to its fullest potential. It should be your job as a game developer to thank the gamers for pointing it out and fix the bug as soon as possible. In the meantime. just disable the activity thats bugged. But no we're bioware and we want you to play our game our way! Nazi republic strikes again.
 

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Strazdas said:
no, its exactly the RIGHT MOVE. permaban all people exploiting bugs. if you dont its as good as saying "its ok to do it".
Actually the update in this thread pointed out that no-one was banned for using this bug--someone faked the email address.

But if there were people being perma-banned for exploiting this: That *is* a wrong move. I'll give Bioware the benefit of doubt that they may not have known of this bug during development and only finding out after launch. They had issues with their servers at launch and any new system starting up is going to have some issues. And sure there will be people that exploit the bug, but *everyone* being caught are perma-banned? How could Bioware keep track of which person in the *millions* of playing the game using this bug, which grows as I type this? Then you got the issue of how much bad press this would look like for banning people in exploiting a bug that you are working on fixing, but punishing people for using when you could just release a patch to disable dancing. Banning people that paid $50+ bucks for their game on launch and just play around with this bug for the 'lulz'?

That sounds like crap EA would do to anyone playing Battlefield 3. And we already know how much "good-press" EA has got in just 2011 alone.
 

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The Gentleman said:
Thank you, I was just going to find that and post it.

(Note: my old WoW guild used to like to play this over vent during raids. It was never ban-worthy then.)
 

sir.rutthed

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And here's the part where I jump on this thread and mock all of you who thought the ban thing was legit. Seriously, you should all be ashamed. How about next time instead of jumping on the EA hate wagon we do a little research before posting such a ludicrous news story?
 

Hitchmeister

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I'm reading a lot of comments in this thread about EA banning accounts with no warning, but reading the details of actual account bans, it seems almost all of them came after the player ignored numerous warnings that the exploit they were using was against the rules and they should stop immediately.

Sure, Bioware needs to patch/hotfix the exploit out of the game, but that can take hours to many days to implement. They shouldn't have to say, "Have at it. Exploit the hell out of the game until a fix is ready."
 

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This is gold. GOLD

I was in the thread where this photoshop got requested to be made. Seeing it get this far fills me with a twisted and undeserved diabolical pride.

What is concerning is that The Old Republic/Bioware/EAware is at a point where people actually believed it.
I don't know any other company which has spawned such fanatical hate from it's previous fan's that they seem to be running a mocking campaign of slander just to spite them. Stranger yet, they're running one that seems to be much more successful then the actual advertisement campaign. Go figure.

Out of hand as this has gotten, it's bloodly hilarious.
 
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I do notice that you're steadfastly avoiding certain question in the hope I won't underline them. I hope this is an oversight on your part.

poiumty said:
in the same way that a housekeeper you paid for is not your slave.
Wow...exaggerate much?
flippant responses
You want to argue using emotional appeal, go scream at a housewife or something. Or join a party, I hear they're really into stuff like that.
You seem to have mixed up facetious and flippant. My responses had a serious point.

All of your "Terrible Consequences" don't mean a single iota of difference to 99% of the players. They just make a difference to the rules set down by the designers. Which means the rules are wrong.

If the rules need to be that strict, enforce them. Simple variable checks can flag that.
If the rules are there as guidelines, let them have their fun, and then reverse it.

Simple. It's how EVE, Everquest and a lot of the other games work. In fact, Everquest: Gates of Dischord introduced it's own "exploit" of Plat-fishing in order to get people to try the new area. 5 days of people getting 100 times the money they're used to. Didn't impact the economy at all.
Like...every other multiplayer game...
Nope.
Name 5 multiplayer games that don't have exploits.

I can't speak for what EA did or how ethical it was because that's another subject entirely. But banning cheaters in general is common practice if you want your game to be respected.
Like Everquest, Eve, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto, Diablo... what?
I put forward the idea of a punishment fitting to the crime.
So you'd design, code and model entire new content for the game simply as a cheater response?
Yeah, like others have done before me.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94524-Arkham-Asylum-Pirates-Get-a-Gimpy-Batman
I wish we lived in a world where that would be viable too.
I wish you lived in the same world the rest of us do, it would make this so much easier to discuss.
 

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You shouldn't ban players for exploiting game mechanics. If you, as a developer, failed to properly account for the bug then it's your fault that players are exploiting it. If a child spills the tea you left on the table all over the carpet, is it the child's fault for acting out or is it the parents fault for not properly account for their own child? The proper way to prevent this from happening would have been to disable dancing until the bug is fixed.
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
YOU allowed this bug in YOUR game by failing to address it before release Bioware. These people aren't breaking the rules, they're taking advantage of YOUR mistake. NO ONE deserves to be banned for dancing (unless they're Elaine from Seinfeld)
Obvious troll is obvious.

And anyone who is on the side of players who are abusing this bug and saying its "exploiting the mechanics" and blaming bioware for not releasing a bug free game (HA!) is a troll as well.
 

wooty

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Sigh, I know its a glitch and all but still the "punishment" is a tad harsh really.

I remember the good old days when dicking about in videogames used to be the norm, just seems everything is being taken far too serious now
 

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AndyFromMonday said:
You shouldn't ban players for exploiting game mechanics. If you, as a developer, failed to properly account for the bug then it's your fault that players are exploiting it. If a child spills the tea you left on the table all over the carpet, is it the child's fault for acting out or is it the parents fault for not properly account for their own child? The proper way to prevent this from happening would have been to disable dancing until the bug is fixed.
1. No one is getting banned - the email saying people were was faked. It's right there in the update, learn to read.

2. They fixed the bug in yesterday's patch.