Why not a warning?

[Vahlnir]

what you run into though, is that they likely figured, from the start, that saying, "dont do this, please dont do this, we may start banning over this so please just dont" would work.

Arguably their first mistake, in my opinion. Asking nicely on the internet usually falls on deaf ears.

[Kes13a]

Arguably their first mistake, in my opinion. Asking nicely on the internet usually falls on deaf ears.

I dont disagree. I think they believed however, in the same values as the game they create, people are inherently good and will do the right thing, follow the rules, people will make the right choices....

humanity however, and especially if you spend any forum time at all, will take any advantage they can of rules if it benefits them somehow, despite being warned. Then reserve the right to scream as loud as possible that they have been "wronged"

[Tsukino]

As a bunch of other people already said, a suspension is a warning because it's not permanent. I have hundreds of games I haven't played in 10 days, it's not that big a deal.

Arguably their first mistake, in my opinion. Asking nicely on the internet usually falls on deaf ears.

That's not exactly true. I mean, obviously it is for a certain group of people or we wouldn't be here discussing this, but the vast majority of players do not use any sort of mods to the game and I truly believe that many of those would have if SE had not ever asked them to not in the first place. For most people just knowing the rules is enough, and they are not going around pushing boundaries and risking their accounts.