During the course of new MMORPG's releasing, Organization Drow will run into a few snags. These snags can range anywhere from a mild fallout of recruits to the game itself being buggy. However, throughout all of the games that we have made teams for, we have never been this insulted by a game company. In my eyes, this action tops SOE's decision to disband our Everquest guild, Brotherhood of the Spider, strictly by what they heard on the rumormill. This snag is far from mild and reaches past benign.
If you haven't heard, the Age of Conan staff have been on a banning binge. In that article they basically state that some AoC customers, found a weakness in the game, an exploit if you will, but not a money exploit. This exploit allows players to gain more money than the average player and this is what triggered the bans.
So let me get this straight Funcom: You found a weakness in your game. Your solution is to ban everyone that has been making more money than usual, disregarding any legitimate hard work put forth through loyal gamers and guilds. And until you figure out who did what (through your magic analyzation tool, which could take days or weeks, depending on the player), other wrongfully banned players are left to sit at their desk pondering why they are even paying the monthly fee.
Organization Drow has been in this game long enough to know when a game company has screwed us over. Not just the organization, but also the gaming community as a whole. Bancom: its certainly not rocket science how to handle cheaters without taking the whole community down with them. You would think, being as seasoned as you are through the release of multiple MMORPGs in the past, that you would not make a mistake that painted idiocy and injustice all over your image.
A few comments from Triv:
Dear Funcom.We at Drow.org would like to say thank you for the most successful launch of any MMO we have had the pleasure of being a part of in our 13 year history. The game is absolutely beautiful, the graphics are top notch and the classes are all wonderful to play. We put together one of our strongest teams to date for this game and they have exceeded all of our expectations beyond measure.
Now on to the negative side. Why the hell do you want to ban accounts of some of the largest gaming organizations leaders and officers to say you are looking for plat farmers. You should be able to monitor who is exploiting rather easy instead of just blind banning people because they have too much gold. Our team in Aoc has 200+ players in it and they are all actively giving the leaders their money to build up our city in your game.
Before the game went live you saw how well we acted as an organization in your beta phase. We won a couple of contests and we also had a large showing in reporting bugs. You need to take your heads out of your asses as this game is only a week old and you are on the verge of losing a very large player base just based on your being a bunch of fucking morons.
Pull your heads out of your asses and unsuspend the accounts that had no exploitations whatsoever. You need to either hire more people to get your shit together or start unbanning accounts before you lose a lot of subscribers.
