CBU3 has abandoned us

[SquishyPlushie]

the fact that it won't be implemented any time soon (perhaps ever.)

vbulletin is a mess.

They need to upgrade to discourse.

It has built in options to help out with this, and can be contracted out to a 3rd party to integrate.

I have no further opinion on the claims he put forward beyond that.

You've quite gone out of your way to avoid discussing this very thread's creation that I brought up.

[Theodric]

They're highly unlikely to block shared IP's or accounts that share billing information in an era where it isn't at all uncommon for people to play games together whilst living under the same roof.

[SquishyPlushie]

I wonder what the forums think of that South Korea "citizen identification number" that is required then. Or one phone number per account many studios have in place.

Also the restrictions mentioned would only be active for sanctioning or same-thread use.

[Swordsman]

They're highly unlikely to block shared IP's or accounts that share billing information in an era where it isn't at all uncommon for people to play games together whilst living under the same roof.

That and the fact the IP could be a VPN that's used by thousands of people or the IP could belong to a public internet cafe. Can't just ban the entire cafe, lol. A slightly more effective method would be banning by hardware ID, but then again that raises the problem of a single PC used by many different people. Even then, hardware ID bans can be easily bypassed.

[SquishyPlushie]

Lot of people in here seem to be unnecessarily awfully afraid of IP tracking.

That and the fact the IP could be a VPN that's used by thousands of people or the IP could belong to a public internet cafe. Can't just ban the entire cafe, lol. A slightly more effective method would be banning by hardware ID, but then again that raises the problem of a single PC used by many different people. Even then, hardware ID bans can be easily bypassed.

Pretty sure that one would come packaged with an anti-cheat. This game does need an anti-cheat badly. I'm sure we've all seen the videos of someone going around speedhacking PvP for months on end.

[SquishyPlushie]

Again, to answer the topic on a high level:

I'm probably going out on a wild limb, but something tells me someone using a new account to post on because their prior accounts were permabanned off the forums isn't going to have nice things to say about the company that actioned them.

SE shouldn't listen to the forums when this sort of thing is ongoing. In fact, they should start by blocking comments coming from an IP that is the location of a perma'd account, or one with matching billing info to one.

If that is the case Squishy would be the first to go for ban evasion.

There it is, the outright false statement intended to harass, by a person doing as such as we speak.