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Old 12-16-2008, 06:59 PM
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I have been around these games for a long time, and anyone in a guild for very long will see also, there is drama etc. Some get really to caught up between real life and its a game. When there is such things as pking, pvp there are those that have a real hard time that it was your pixel character and not you that just got killed.

These type of things is what leads for the most part to personal attacks etc. Standing around abassa this weekend demonstrated some of this exact thing. Drama in guilds, mistyped words to go through filters to cuss out others etc.

Though Disney attempted to make a filter for this stuff, it was a complete failure in my opinion. Drove people away, with just not being able to communicate, or switch to a voice chat. A much better system is to log these words and direct bans when the system picks them up. The trouble there is they want the free accounts in the game that would need something to block them, or a single player would just make one after another.

Ultimately, it has now lead to nothing to do in the game for so long, and no new content. So players now go use all these glitches in walls etc. and spam, cuss where they think someone can't find them, thinking they are all cute, or cool or something.

The system they have here has to be the top worse I have ever seen in any game, by far. Drive players away from the game, banning people that want to communicate (by listing web sites etc), and letting the typo words go through with people trying to do the exact thing they want to prevent.

I would recommend all keep it short and to the point in areas like this for basically two reasons. You will find yourself trapped in accepting content in conversation, and ban. If its from asking why you are asking that, to perhaps a enemy made in the game on a alt trapping you into a conversation you didn't need to have. When you get the latter, I have seen people ban from them searching back months looking for something, as well. This even making a terrible system worse to those basically doing their best following the rules.

The example here can fall right in this category. Two weeks later some guy now has the name he was waiting on and is no longer pirate. Come up to you some day and feels he wants revenge, and reports you for a conversation you get trapped into.

People doing these type of things usually extends to a drama, pk, or even for reporting them, so keep those unknown players on short leash. While its a catch 99, is it just another new player likely to have not read the rules.