Im sure a lot of you have seen what the nostalrius team did with their pvpers.If not, go to their forums its a good laugh anyway.
I had a look at it and I'll add my comments.
Apparently many N players are well aware of an exploit in their battleground queue system which allows for forced matchups with alts, abused for wintrading, and nobody from the server owners really cares (bur/kek). That was reported to one of their GMs, who apparently banned 30+ people (well, justice. Or?).
How did he check that stuff is unknown.
The proofs that were presented told an interesting story of who abused and how, but there was no proof in there (well, if I was a GM I would check them "in action").
Later, 12 of those 30 kept appealing to the GMs for an unban, claiming they were not part of anything like that and after 3rd post, they got unbanned.
According to the forum posters on N, there's a conspiracy going where N leadership "got paid" to unban them and they were allowed to keep their honor, even though being proven guilty (again, by what exactly?). Also, apparently the only proof for the conspiracy is that the 12 unbanned players logged into the game all together after a server crash (LOLd).
What's more interesting, the crying part of community from N was very annoyed by the fact, that the unbanned players were unbanned and that the unbanned players kept the same amount of honor from previous week while the rest of playerbase had to catch up to them (how about the N playerbase wakes up and demands explanation and proofs regarding the case that were never shown?).
Later, the N admin posted a reply that the 12 unbanned people will have their previous week's honor removed. That means their honor ranking remains.
For me, there are 4 conclusions:
- the staff of Nos are morons. One GM is banning multitude of players on anecdotal evidence, then forum moderators lock forum posts with explanation that "the case was investigated" and they cannot appeal. Suddently, another GM is unbanning them next week based on (yet again) anecdotal evidence. And again, forum moderators are locking topics, explaining that the "case was re-checked". Well, I say those people doing the checking need a kick in the butt.
- N admin topped it off by deleting honor of the unbanned. If they were innocent, why did you take their honor? If they were guilty, why did you unban them in the first place? Makes no sense either way. Well, people were right when they advised to stay away from that place :wink:
- the people who reported this are morons aswell! It's a known fact that topics disappear from N, so it's your fault that those mentioned "mountains of evidence" got "deleted", you should have kept everything in a separate place. That one pastebin being linked everywhere contains only names, no proofs.
- Why the hell do you bring your drama here?
Sadly, I didn't really find much to laugh at :mellow: