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accusing other to be cheaters

PostPosted:Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:40 pm
by Don
So this recent MPQ thing got me thinking, can you get suspended/banned for naming otherwise innocent players as cheaters? I don't mean like a 'everyone who has ever beaten me is a cheater', because we know there are a lot of people out there (I think like that most of the time too) or even the doomsday 'everyone but me is a cheater' guys. Diablo 1 did fine every though everyone thinks everyone else is a cheater so general hysteria is not a big problem. I don't even mean like you have a grudge and /report (someone) every time you run into them and fill up the CS with useless junk because that's still within the in game parameters. But what if you're openly naming guys who turn out to be innocent? Doesn't the company owe some kind of responsibility? And when you're talking about F2P, the average guy accused to be a cheater is often a guy with too much money, so you can potentially lose a valuable customer. Or you can just think of say someone accusing a popular streamer as a cheater. I'm pretty sure big competitive games sees those guys as valuable assets (seem to recall those guy sign contracts and stuff), and I'm sure they make a lot of enemies. Now people hate each other and that's perfectly normal, but would it make sense to suspend or even ban guys who claim your top performing stars are cheaters without anything to back it up? I literally have no idea what's the common policy on this and I'm wondering if anyone knows. It'd seem to me you want to keep your whales/top performers happy even if they're doing something dubious, and if it turns out they're totally legit, from a cost benefit analysis point of view it is certainly worth getting rid of even a few paying customers let alone nonpaying customers to keep those guys in your game.