TasteeWheat.

aletheia

what can i do to get banned?

**Kaspanova**

aletheia wrote:
what can i do to get banned?

million and one ways to die.. choose one..

**lnhumancode**

Like I have said before, a blow to the community and a blow to my faith in the Customer Service's (or whoever is responsible for this) ability to handle things. And yeah, this is very hypocritical of them. People have gotten less than warnigns for worse than this.:smileysad:

**eyepopper**

if the disable device guys just got booted to lvl 2...

and tasteewheat was a big promoter of MxO...

that must have been one hellluva exploit-- grander than any one of us could conceive.

**Rumbaar** · 01/14/2006 01:55:37

You wont get a comment here from the admin/dev/CSR's "because we don't publicly discuss account issues" or some **bleep** like that!

SOE who do you think it effectly running the community in MxO ...

How many new players can see the **bleep**in' "Content is currently being updated." on DN1 and not rely on the COMMUNITY players to supliment your poor and lack luster support for the game.

Come perma-ban a select core few of contributing community members (a dozen or so) and you kill off any real community support for this game!

...Killin' the game one poor decision at a time ...

Tip Tip Hurra!!!

Message Edited by MxODraconis on 01-14-200607:55 PM

Track

A tribute. SMILEY

It truly is a sad day. I agree one hundred-fifty percent that they shouldn't have banned him - they should have hired him.

I propose a demonstration. We should march on Mara Central (or something).

T0XIC

Stack wrote:
What can I say that has not already been said? I share the opinions of everyone in this topic.

What I am waiting for, though, is for Walrus to come into this topic and say what he said when Mek was banned. I'm waiting for Walrus to come in here and tell us that this was not the first offense, that TasteeWheat really was given warnings for past offenses. He better. Because I seem to recall he stated that no player would ever be permanently banned unless they were warned that if they continued to violate the GPC that they would receive such a punishment.

I don't know what to say if such is not the case anymore, aside from the fact that this is one of the most disappointing pieces of news I've heard in a long time. You keep giving these complete n00bs who spam and flame and troll mere warnings, you give them leniency, but then someone this important to the community goes too far on their first offense and they get a permanent ban. I don't care if he managed to make Neo rise from the dead and fly across the sky, he better have gotten a warning first.

You better tell us, Walrus. I know you don't allow people to ask why, but tell us. Tell us that he got a warning first.

Scroll down the 3rd post.
http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=redpill&message.id=5086&view=by_date_ascending&page=2

and theres many more people that got banned that I know of.

**UniToxic**

see how does that make sense?
how can they decide who gets banned and who doesn't.
i mean if like 30+ people do the leveling exploit and only an handful get banned for there 1st offense, how do they decide this, whts there reason for it?

we all know he wasn't banned for the leeling exploit but still....

**Stack**

Hm.

Looks like we need to ban the CSRs instead. They're damaging the game far more than we are.

**CooliceT**

its a real shame im seeing alot of players get banned. i mean there is far more worse things that other players do.

i remember Tasteweet since beta. and he was a great player for the community its a sad day to also hear Nik0 was banned also. they keep taking the best players away from this game i would see alot more leaving. becuase i dont wana play with noobs. i want to play with the old school players we all love. i hope they realise in some cases a perminant ban is NOT needed. only a strong telling off. and a warning. in cases will do. the only good thing is. they will have alot of more time to do the things they wish to do. sorry to hear all. this. and wish them best of luck in life. SMILEY

regards, ice

**PBlade**

A topic well raised Sykin, and a topic well supported. All I can do is throw my opinion into the malestrom:

I knew TasteeWheat only on a casual basis on these forums (if that's a possible way of knowing someone on a forum) - let's say I was aware of his existance. I was also aware of his unnatural devotion to the game, and the countless third party implementations that he created. I can't say i've used any of them aside from the Zion Mainframe (i'm an SI radio fan) but that enough shows a commitment and dedication to The Matrix Online that should be acknowledged and considered before a banning takes place.

Instead of banning those who they beleive have done wrong through an exploit for the first time in a game, a warning (which, I may add, is supposed to be written procedure) should be issued, if it happens again then it should be ban time, but not until that moment.

Again, why waste time banning valued and respected community members? There are a lot more "worthy" candidates out there in this game. The known exploit of tapping data devices for exp was quite a hefty exploit if I do say so, and the people who used it lost only the relative exp from the exploit. When I know for a fact that many of them had used the flying bug, the white hall bug and many other exploits such as that. If that isn't seen and bans are issued for first time offenders and not serious multiple offenders, then I beleive a revision of the ToS is in order. At least that or slam the bloody book down Brewkos throat.

A grave wrong has been done to TasteeWheat, and too this community, if it is allowed to go unnoticed, then a chord of distrust will be struck in me, one not willing to die so easily.

That is all.
-PBlade

Chuui

I try to avoid topics like this. But I have been thinking about this almost the whole day now and I truly cannot understand this.

Why ban TW? They have done so much to help this game does that not count for anything? Why not warn them, ban them for a month or two, reset the characters to level 2 or something? But to ban them out right like that? This is not right. It feels wrong. It leaves a very very bad taste in my mouth.

I jack in to the matrix now and I struggle, litterally struggle to enjoy it. It feels empty now that TW's work is denied us. But alas, we are mere players we have no say in any of this.

This also raises one major concern I have had for some time now, how are bans decided? It obviously isn't by any procedure made publicly available to us. I will cite some cases in point:

case 1 - two players who spam area chat with language that includes references to crude sexual acts and suggestions of threats of *CENSORED* upon family members.

Punishment? None.

case 2 - a player gets annoyed at another player who is exploiting, they then cuss them out a couple of times in area chat.

Punishment? Threatened with suspension or a life time ban - at the discretion of the CSRs.

case 3 - someone exploits a major flaw in the game that allows them to level to 50 in a few minutes.

Punishment? Losing XP or a ban. A choice made seemingly at random.

Now also lets consider other things:

Certain players have had CSRs restore lost items while the majority of us are told that cannot be done.

Certain players have been taken to the white rooms/hallways for fun (with CSR consent) while everyone else is told that cannot be done.

Certain CSRs "chill out" with players in Mara Central dueling them.

I am sorry, but this raises the serrious concerns of professionalism and impartialness in people who are not supposed to have favorites within the game. I find myself having to urge SOE to undertake a full investigation into the practices of the CSRs and the procedures they use. As something simply isn't right.

**CooliceT**

nice read there Chuui. SMILEY

i tottaly agree with all that. i to find it a struggle. i mean. what really is there to do for us long time players. ? and its a shame i keep seeing old players go. who knows what will happen. i just hope when they ask them selves... was banning another player. who is paying our wages worth it?

Blazer

Somebody call the whaaaaaaaambulance

**cloudwolf**

Totally agree chuui, somethings up and it needs to be investigated!

i seriously question the professionalism of the CSRs...