[MUD-Dev] Blacksnow revisted

[Caliban Tiresias Darklock]

From: <Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com>

> In the Anarchy Online case, the items they were selling were
> apparently all duped/farmed using exploits which is how the BSI
> characters were identified.

The AO statement about exploitation isn't really relevant to the
Mythic case. The Mythic case is about Dark Age of Camelot, and no
similar allegation was raised by Mythic.

> Does it really matter if BSI is allowed to sell things online -
> the issue in this case is if games are allowed to ban players when
> it can be demonstrated such action will cause financial loss.

That's an instructive way of putting it. I don't think anyone would
dispute that someone who cheats at some game or other should be
banned and the game's administration is perfectly justified in doing
it.

But that's not what you said. You said the issue is whether games
can ban players when it will cost them money. That's an issue that
doesn't even seem to make any sense.

There are still *several* issues in this case. Who "owns" the
character? Who "owns" the items the character has in his inventory? 
Can a player legitimately transfer his account? Can a player
legitimately transfer his character's inventory? Is the legitimacy
of either transfer affected by whether real-world money changes
hands? Can you ban a player from your game because you don't like
what he does *outside* the game?

Ultimately, however, only one or two issues will be resolved. The
rest of them will stay up in the air for people like us to discuss
on lists like this. ;)


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