Confirmed, Hackers banned for 3-10 days. [Statement from Smed]

[T-Ray]

Originally Posted by Wahooo

This actually kinda pisses me off. If we are to take this seriously where the hell was this response 4-5 years ago when a couple of these pay to cheat sites took off and started making money and at the same time KILLING PS1???

From ~Jan - June of 2009 the population drop in PS1 was friggen staggering due to the rampant cheating and SLOW response. Many of the worst granted were writing the scripts themselves and sharing free to others who included many of the 'subtle' hackers we all knew about and were reported with video evidence time and time again. BUT... the pay to cheat sites were there then. The pay to cheat sites were stealing SOE's money by killing the playerbase then. PS1 was an alive game that had 1, 2 sometimes 3 pop-locked continents daily to the constant 3-way cyssorside it remained for the last 3 years of its life. That probably represents a couple thousand players actually that quit over a period of 6 months MOSTLY due to hacking.

Remember in June of 2009? They started responding to tickets in minutes, 24/7 hackers were being banned, coming back and being banned sometimes 3-4 times and the banning and GM response was better than i've seen in almost any game... but it was too little and too late the damage had been done. I know the outfit I was in at that time lost 75% of its palyers between april and may, and the next outfit I was in went from platoons to 1/2 squads during that period and neither ever recovered. GM's actually doing GM stuff in a timely manner in June? Just not enough.

SO SMED,
If these sites are some new revelation to you and you feel NOW it is time to act? FUCK YOU! This threat and action is about 5 years to late in my book.

See this is the type of bulljive I'm talking about. You want this man to do what for you now? You just told the president of SOE "fuck you" and of course now you want some kind of positive action?? Really man, come on.

First and foremost let me remind you Smed is the ONLY CEO/President of a major company that will interact with people in this type of setting. I see why others don't want to do it. No human being deserves to be disrespected like that. He's just a dude like anyone else and if you dog people and disrespect them the natural human response is to not respond or to come back with the same level of disrespect. I'm assuming that you guys want us to continue to interact and visit with you on these forums, right? If that is the case, keep it civil.