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Rule Enforcement thought...
I'm very sad, but this is my general feeling on the evony sting operation.
The people that got caught and punished with holiday mode for a few days will probably continue on doing what they were doing. It seems odd to me that most games, where people pay and do not pay to play enforce rules against che-eating very harshly. Generally your account gets deleted and you can start over, sometimes you get banned from a server permanently. Here the person gets holiday mode and when they come out all the advantages accumulated during their times of cheating are still there... If they used the BlOT to farm, the food and troops they accumulated are still there, if they used it to farm medals or take cities from neighbors by spamming to confuse online times, or by auto que of troops all those advantages are still present. If they used the BlOT to build their cities up by put up buildings or downgrading them same story.
Once a little leeway is given most of the times complete corruption ensues in games since now the slap on the wrist is really not commensurate with the advantage of using a BlOT or something else.
While 1 player is kept that spends money even though they are ch-eating, there are 5 more that leave the game that used to spend money that weren't. Yes the accountants will like that the person continues to spend money on evony they ignore the shrinkage in the customer base overall because those would have quit anyways. But really would they have?...
Thats the question are you destroying the customer base more by allowing it for paying and non paying customers alike or is it really more profitable...
None of the other pay to play or not pay to play online games, War craft, Everquest, Battlefield let people cheat, that was the appeal, u cheat ur gone... here u get a vacation... that is if u can afford one... profitable only because it seems to save customers on one end while the others that are fed up go out the other end...
P.S. Censorship for the stake of esthetics and pretending the problem does not exists, keeps pushing this game towards the cliff...
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