Quote Originally Posted by Nabiri View Post
Welcome back Azury! You make some really good points. I'm pretty bothered by the exploits allowed in this game and how they always go unpunished, unlike XI..
But unfortunately I can't see SE doing much about them until 2.0, just out of fear of losing too many people.
If things aren't better by 2.0 though... bleh.. :\ I really don't want to see cheaters and exploiters get away with murder. Makes everything you do legit seem like less of an accomplishment because they can do it "better" or faster.
Exactly what FFXI did you play? It always took Tanaka's team years before any major action like banning ever occurred to exploits or cheaters, and half the time nothing ever happened to said players as long as they kept a low profile and stayed out of trouble.

If your referring to the Salvage Ban that took place that in itself was VERY POORLY handled, for one it was reported numerous times for OVER A YEAR that the duping was going on which Tanaka did nothing to try and stop. Then when Tanaka decided to punish those participating in the dupes, many players who didn't even use the dupe were banned just from being associated with those people in Salvage runs.

Point is Tanaka never did anything until it was way too late to try and repair the damage done. His overall lack of action led to the encouraging of bad behavior, and just enforced players overall lack of faith in him when he tried to fix it after people moved on or stopped caring about it. Now your bitching at Yoshi to fix this problem now, when he's got his plate full preparing the same game for revamp in the next 4 or 5 months just to make this game worthy of playing by the general public.

Now tell me which is more important, making this game a worthwhile enough experience to pull players back to it after it's failed initial launch, or refocus Yoshi's time to take out some exploiters/gil-sellers/botters who have little to no influence in the game at the moment any more than any other player, especially when said exploiters/gil-sellers/botters will just start over and be back in action in no time?