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I haven't made any secret of how I view bug/glitch abuse beyond what is needed to confirm what triggered the bug/glitch for accuracy in reporting.
I take it as a direct attack on me personally. Firstly, it diminishes the values of the money I use to pay the fees to play the game; I don't have many expectations from these game companies in return for my fees, but I do expect them to adequately monitor the game to ensure that their stated rules are being enforced consistently, and that a good faith effort is being made to respond with alacrity to bug/glitch exploitation issues. Secondly, it diminishes the value of my personal time because I choose to abide by the rules, even though that means I develop more slowly, and I take that far more seriously than issues of money.
For all these MMOGs, the only thing that prevents us from all having immediate access to all the game's content is that the content itself is protected by time sinks. When players are not bound by those time sinks, and there are no real repercussions for choosing to not abide by the rules they claimed they would abide by when they signed up for the game, it diminishes the value of the game for anyone who chooses to honor the commitments they made when signing up to the game, without inventing a bunch of justifications and other excuses.
As I enter my second 3-month block of membership, I have made my position clear to the game's parent company (most recently through the survey they sent us); they will either get the major bug/glitch abuse under control over the next 3 months, or I will move on to a company that is willing to enforce its own rules.
I am constantly agitating for them to increase the severity of their punishments. Personally, I want any character that has gained a large percentage of its total rep either rolled back, or locked permanently. Prosecuting this fight will be my main focus over the next few months...by any means necessary...with neither compunction, nor mercy.
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