Why not a warning?

[VirusOnline]

I believe you have to agree to the terms of service to play the game so if they weren't aware of the rules, that's on them. Doesn't matter how new they are.

And who reads the lengthy ToS ?
Surely, we agree, but it's hard to follow a ToS that even SE interprets on a case by case basis rather than a hard black and white and now we've arrived at this point because of that.

Ignorance does not protect one from punishment.

Ignorance on the players part ?
No, this was willfull ignorance and interpretation on SE's part.
They let it get this far while placing blame on the playerbase.

[Grebeny]

Ignorance on the players part ?
No, this was willfull ignorance and interpretation on SE's part.
They let it get this far while placing blame on the playerbase.

What do you mean? None player was banned for using ACT even if it is known they should not use it. If they banned people for just using ACT, they would ban the entire first world group, but they banned only the red mage, who surpisingly had the same mod as Bengel who got banned. I didn't found a video of the player from Japan, but judging by some comments on his topic, he was using the same mod. To me it looks like they very specifically banned people that were using addon showing them specific information that is unavailable for other players. Because as I said, the other members of their groups were using the other mods, but not this one (or at least they were not taking visible advantage of it).