This is not a defense of anyone involved just how I see things based on what I've seen.


I feel like a verbal warning would make more sense if anything in the case of Arthars, as for the aspect of people not being banned for things that are generally worse then him talking crap about someone outside game and on his stream.

They didnt Ban him for ACT use which would have made more sense given what is currently within the ToS to do, over him saying something *mean* on a third party platform.

They spoke on him talking poorly about someone. Does he have the power to start a *witch hunt*? Yes he does. Did he, has he, will he? No.

As a long time MMO player I feel its just part of what comes with the game. I think everyones been there and talked about the dumb things they see, and made inside jokes and memes.

While some may not like the reality of it, its a normal aspect of playing online games. For SE to do what they did opens the flood gates to people being banned with out of context evidence being used against them, which can prove to hurt them as a company.

I for one don't think I should be held accountable for saying something about someone in a group I was in being a bad player on ANY third party platform, that means twitch, discord, skype, teamspeak, twitter, etc. The list goes on.

I feel attempting to police the community outside the game will change nothing. You cannot ban people or be mad at anyone for venting, or making jokes as a means to NOT say it to that person in game where SE's jurisdiction is. So cracking jokes about a Bad BLM to twitch chat, not bannable, saying something foul in DIscord, not bannable, talking crap on twitter not bannable.

SE needs to be more clear going forward.