Dark Devices is dead.

[Inq]

Wouldn't it make more sense to...you know...punish the people being abusive?

I mean, people can get abusive about anything. Does that mean we shouldn't have raids, shouldn't have 5 mans, shouldn't have a game at all because some jerk decides to be a social-malcontent on the internet? Um, no? It means that if that jerk decides to be a social-malcontent, they suffer consequences for it. You don't punish everyone else who did nothing wrong by making their lives more difficult. That's just plain stupid.

If, as a developer, I have the choice between fixing a problem at its source, or devoting numerous man hours of support to policing children on the internet, I choose the first option, every single time.

I levelled to 50 doing DD as it is now, before people realized it could be abused, and there was never any drama in that zone. When I spent time there after, getting MIN to 50, every time it came up, there was all kinds of tears and threats of blacklistings and reporting for harassment. They did the right thing imho.