Things to think about during today's patch...

[xdrymartini]

How about this for a train of thought...

Observations:
-EQ is still fun.
-SOE IS A BUSINESS, whose only purpose is to make money by feeding our ego's that EQ, uber_loot_01, and e-life > RL.
-SOE, like every other business, has a limited amount of resources.
-SOE has to allocate these limited resources where they will generate the greatest amount of profit. (They don't spend $$ on marketing and retail sales of new expansions, this increases profit)
-EQ's population has been decreasing steadily over the last few expansions.
-EQ and MMO's in general are loosing market share for gamers (hello PS3 and XBOX 360, hard core gamers that have been playing EQ since 1999 growing up/burning out and OMG RL > EQ - I hope none of you think that EQ IS LIFE).
-SOE has sunk ALOT of $$ and time into Vanguard and other projects.
-EQ is becoming less profitable to Sony, not unprofitable, just less than the first few years it was out and there was no real competition; EQ was fresh unique and new.

Opinions:
-SOE won't spend the time or $$ to rewrite the server side code necessary STOP any of us from USING the hacks that currently work. (Ghostkill, /zone, /warp and all the other ones you know and love)

-SOE can, does and WILL CONTINUE to use server side tools to identify WHO is abusing these hacks and make examples of them.

-Sto0pid, juvenile, immature, selfish and foolish players are killing us by:
1) Useing these hacks in open zones in front of other players,
2) Killing raid mobs in open zones in front of a raid force (preventing legitimate raids from killing the mobs),
3) Afk farming/exping for days/weeks,
4) Bragging in /shout, /gu etc. to their e-friends that they just got uber_piece_of_gear_01 from an end game Raid mob that the guild hasn't killed recently. Neener, neener neener, you don't have this!! (oh my, their monk is ANON)
-THIS causes a great amount of envy and is the most frequent reason a non-MQ2 using guildie sends a /petition.
5) Drawing unnecessary attention to our community.

All of this has been said before. Some don't listen. Some will never listen, they are 1337 (ROFLMAO).

-Would it be financially viable for SOE to ban ALL of us that use these hacks? -- NO! Most of us multi-box (I 6-box myself) and BANNING ALL of us and our many accounts would stop EQ from being profitable (monthly paychecks are great, and Sony likes us paying them). EVERY high end guild would be decimated and few would be able to reach an expansions end game in a reasonable time - by the NEXT expansion's release).

-Does SOE make examples of some of us (the most flagrant, visible and obvious) to shut up the many who have /petition'ed? -- HELL YES. I would like to see more of those idiots go too. They draw too much attention to us.

-COULD SOE bring out the big_ban_stick_01, remove many more of us, merge servers again (free up resources for other Sony projects) and increase their profit margin? -- Perhaps... I'm interested in what will happen AFTER the next expansion.

-COULD SOE be collecting data on all of us "uber hackers" (ROFL), wait for us to buy the new expansion on all of our accounts/bots, THEN ban us after we spend lots of $$?? -- Time will tell.

Just something to think about...

I'm always interested in hearing your opinions,

XDry

 

[EQManiac]

Rofl, the boredom has set in so the troll bait begins

 

[someoneorsomething]

Nicely done. i would say imho its true

 

[zazoot]

ive seen alot of idiots who desserve to be banned

like people ghosting when a raid force is in zone

hi idiot go get fucked

 

[fishman7]

I ooc'd a drop in a fairly dangerous dungeon and watched a level six warp in, loot, and warp back out. There were twenty plus peeps in the zone and I hope that idiot didn't brag about it because there's no way that clown could have made it there and back legit without getting his ass handed to him.
If it was that obvious to me ... I'm sure Sony could pick up on it.

 

[pimp_daddy_arse]

well said i see stupid shit every day ......hell you could ban half of my server if you just sat in the guild hall and /pet everyone who popped in and said "test subject"...FFS people if your gonna piggyzone with the old ini dont bind in GH

 

[Learningcurve]

Yeah considering that everything you can see with MQ2 is more then likely allready able to be seen by the GM's client software otherwise the code wouldnt be there for us to use. AND if it's NOT I am sure they wouldn't have a big problem with thier people using the same software we use to catch us.. If that was really thier intentions. Ok back to looking for NFSU2 hacks since EQ is down

 

[thez]

Haven't we been over this before a million times? Sony can find us any time, any place. They can track by credit cards, IP addresses, etc. They know who the hackers are, and as long as you don't fuck with their money, they don't fuck with you. The evidence is there...GMs address TP by the name of his first character when he's on any different account, etc.

 

[rawwar]

It seems to be all about cheating without pissing in some ones Corn Flakes ... my ban was probably the result of pulling in a zone someone else wanted to be but never said a word to me... then again could have been random ... the one thing I know for sure is I got BUSTED FOR CHEATING plain and simple ... so cheat with caution and common sense..... do those go together... maybe not

 

[hernanfam1]

mman this is my first post and you hit it on the mark. I come here to read and learn but i am a business owner and have little time to learn how to use these macros at all. Will read more but if anybody has like a quick reference file that i could learn from I would appreciate it. Again you Hit the problem on the head.

 

[SomethingRed]

The things that crack me up the most are the screenshots ON THE SOE BOARDS that show the pet owner's name in parenthesis, and things like "Officer" and "Leader" in people's titles.

Nothing says "please ban me" like posting with your account, pictorial evidence that you cheat.

 

[Roguish]

I've actually set that info to zero in the ini because my wife seems to keep forgetting that and she won't use /snap

 

[pimp_daddy_arse]

Haven't we been over this before a million times? Sony can find us any time, any place. They can track by credit cards, IP addresses, etc. They know who the hackers are, and as long as you don't fuck with their money, they don't fuck with you. The evidence is there...GMs address TP by the name of his first character when he's on any different account, etc.

im sorry i just find this too parinoid like the fbi watches you through your T.V. theroy..im sure they have an idea of who does and doesnt cheat but i doubt they know as much as you give them credit for.however i do agree that if you dont front sony off they wont bust your balls.dont make them make an example outta you etc

 

[UnrealWizard]

thanks for the heads up on zek.