Shard Chats = cheating
When are the game developers going to do something about the PVP cheating rings (aka shard chats)?
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I'm not talking about court litigation. I'm talking about being banned from a game, which has been going on since the beginning of multiplayer online games -- without any litigation that I've ever heard of.
"EA may terminate your access and use of any EA Services or your EA Account if EA determines that you have violated this Agreement"
Pretty sure none of us have the "right" to play a mobile game if we breach said game's terms of service, and I doubt anyone would try to take that to court. And these terms of service are written as expansively (and as ambiguously) as possible to give the game entity all the leeway they want to get rid of problematic players or even to overlook breaches in terms of service. (For example, you might see game devs conspicuously overlook a video of a popular YouTube streamer cheating in some way because that streamer is providing lots of free ad space for the game ... whereas a no-name player gets banned immediately for doing the same thing.)
I mean... I've seen in other online games where someone would get suspended or banned for mouthing off to a developer on a public forum. Or standing in front of a doorway in-game. Or saying something rude in a General chat. It honestly doesn't take much. But if they decide you are costing them $$ by doing something disruptive, then you're going to get banned very quickly.
But in the case of this game, the players causing the controversy are also the biggest spenders. So unless people start leaving the game in droves expressly due to Arena exploit, I doubt EA will publicly rock the boat. I wish they would, but realistically... I have to assume they've done the math. If they re-worked Arena to make shard-chatting completely non-viable (i.e. every single player had to camp and protect their own payout every day if they wanted max rewards), a lot of entitled whales would cry-baby all over the forums and take their $1000s to another game. Muh crystals. Muh rank. Boohoo. That sort of thing.
"EA may terminate your access and use of any EA Services or your EA Account if EA determines that you have violated this Agreement"
Pretty sure none of us have the "right" to play a mobile game if we breach said game's terms of service, and I doubt anyone would try to take that to court. And these terms of service are written as expansively (and as ambiguously) as possible to give the game entity all the leeway they want to get rid of problematic players or even to overlook breaches in terms of service. (For example, you might see game devs conspicuously overlook a video of a popular YouTube streamer cheating in some way because that streamer is providing lots of free ad space for the game ... whereas a no-name player gets banned immediately for doing the same thing.)
I mean... I've seen in other online games where someone would get suspended or banned for mouthing off to a developer on a public forum. Or standing in front of a doorway in-game. Or saying something rude in a General chat. It honestly doesn't take much. But if they decide you are costing them $$ by doing something disruptive, then you're going to get banned very quickly.
But in the case of this game, the players causing the controversy are also the biggest spenders. So unless people start leaving the game in droves expressly due to Arena exploit, I doubt EA will publicly rock the boat. I wish they would, but realistically... I have to assume they've done the math. If they re-worked Arena to make shard-chatting completely non-viable (i.e. every single player had to camp and protect their own payout every day if they wanted max rewards), a lot of entitled whales would cry-baby all over the forums and take their $1000s to another game. Muh crystals. Muh rank. Boohoo. That sort of thing.
