Originally Posted by
Dawnseeker
Evony has been freer with compensation packages than virtually any other online game. Those packages, given to both paid and unpaid players, cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential lost revenue.
We're not perfect, and -- despite the angry posts I'm seeing to the contrary -- no company is. When we make mistakes, we own up to them and do our best to make up for them. If you think there is an economically practical way for us to do a better job, we're listening. We always have been.
One of the things our non-cheating players have demanded is the removal of cheaters. So we did it. It has cost us tens of thousands of dollars in revenue from the cheaters, but that is worth it to us to protect the integrity of our game and the investment of time and money by players who follow the rules.
We expect a backlash when we enforce the rules. We know players who cheated and got caught will be mad. Guess what? We're tough. We can live with it because we know that the players who didn't cheat are still in the game, and will have a much better time without the destructive influence of players who can't seem to play a game without trying to gain an unfair advantage.
Did a handful of innocent players get caught in the recent sweep? Its possible, and we're investigating it. But we are talking about ONLY a handful. The vast majority of those claiming to be innocent are just lying to avoid facing the consequences of their actions. We're not surprised by this, but neither should other players be taken in by them.
These are the players we're banning. These are the cheaters we are removing from the game so that our honest players may continue. This is why threats of "lost money" from the cheaters do no matter to us. We knew we would lose their money when we banned them. We don't care how much they spent every month.
A cheater is a cheater and I'm proud that we categorically removed every cheater we found, regardless of their spending habits. We didn't catch them all, but we will eventually.
Every time we sweep the floor, we're going to get some fallout on the forums and I pledge to you, our honest players and innocent forum goers that I will be here to drop the hammer on the cheaters who try to use these forums to strike back at the game in revenge for being banned for cheating.
So a message to all botters: If this is your first suspension, stop botting. Don't bother coming here and trying to garner sympathy or disrupt our forums. You brought these consequences on yourselves and you are responsible for the consequences of your actions. The only thing you'll achieve here is a forum ban to go with your in-game ban.