2 cents and Game Consistency

Day 2,449, 13:16 • Published in Ireland Mexico • by Coyolxauhqui V



Hi there people!

I doubt that this article will last long, and maybe I will be taken into the silent room, who knows. I could not care less to be honest.

I just saw that the current Albanian CP,Endritt Zekka has been PermaBanned. Yeah! Permanently Banned from the game. This is really odd, you see, there have been such few Permabans since the game started its trajectory into boredom and stagnation. In fact, I know many multi-players who are doing just fine for ages and have even lost the "fear" of loosing their entire network of active multis. Speaking with them, they just say: The Admins are not banning us as he used to, he lets us continue because the game has lost so much population and activity. The multis are just as relevant in keeping the game on as the visa players and the Weekly Challenges.

I wondered why this cp would be banned. His account is indeed very young, probably a rebirth of another player, as so many people have done, given that for many players, the account they built over time became less useful than starting a new one from scratch in the current system.

But then, this came out:



To make it clear, the president of Albania Sent This Law and afterwards, got a Perma Ban.

We all know, or have a bit of an idea at least, about the Kosovo War and the Conflict over its Political Status. We also see how in this game, the main point of motivation is a nationalistic one, particularly related to nation's RL conflicts. We see the ongoing mud-trowing between players from Greece and from the nation of Macedonia, obviously for RL reasons. It seems the admins are ok with that, sure, it gives them tons of $$$, so they allow the in-game conflict and potentiate the anger in its players.

I just want to drop my two cents, not on the Kosovo conflict, or about the Macedonian nation's name, but on the admins unclear and inconsistent way of dealing with these issues: if you allow and have allowed for such a long time the Macedonian-Greek anger to come into the game, such that it is almost a staple of it for the ones who are not even from that side of the world,
and, you no longer ban cheating by massive multis in the game, why would you then ban a nationalistic statement of an issue that, until now, is still in the conflict-negotiation-lobbing stage? The Kosovo issue is much more in current debate about its status, than the issue of the Macedonian country name. If it is more in conflict, I think, it would be more legitimate to allow the expressions of that conflict. I see no swearing, and no hate message in an albanian stating "Plato Add Kosovo". Indeed, this bothers serbian players that do not wish in RL that Kosovo stops being a part of Serbia. I understand this, I mean, it is implied in the notion of "issue at current conflict": there are at least two parts in strong disagreement, to put it lightly.

But banning a player for SAYING this in the game, is in my view, utter AUTORITARISM from the admins. You allow clear angry nationalistic hate messages about other topics as they give you money, let alone you allow massive sexism to continuously go on in game, but no Kosovo statements?

You don´t ban the multis, nor the hate messages, nor the sexism, neither pornography (I posted massive amounts of male pornography here and merely got f-points), but you do ban "Plato Add Kosovo"...

Nice admins, very nice... I cant wait to write some reviews about this other places on line. Not that you'd care, I very well know that.

What are you going to do about Crimea by the way? Not allow Russians and Ucranians to talk about it, or rather allow what you want, as it can bring money in?
Now that you added Georgia and Armenia, are you planning to lead on a Nagorno-Karabakh hate virtual situation?

I am a Mexican RL, more than anything; I could just say "those are not my conflicts, I should keep my spoon out". But I am a player of this world-game, and I really don´t think you play fair on issues that actually really motivate people, and really hurt them. Its your game, we accept to play it as is, we know that. However, some ethics about it, some consistency in the rules, should be expected...

I do not ask for the unbanning of the Albanian CP, (and even if I did, I know it makes no difference, specially when you do unban players with multies giving them a negative number in cc) or to have a position about these real life current conflicts. BUT I DO ASK FOR CONSISTENCY IN THE RULES FOR A GOOD GAME! You accept hate in some topics, and don´t accept expression in other topics. it is the societies, the networks of people playing this (in conflict or not, with visa, with multis, or not) that keep on making us come and make click... don´t encourage extra hate by being so partial.

I do not write this to offend Serbians or Albanians, or Greeks or Macedonians. I respect the people of these nations, and understand that nation's conflicts are always nasty and complicated. There is injustice and hate being ping-ponged amongst both sides... I have no agenda of propaganda about these conflicts. Rather...
I write it as a player that plays among the ambiance your conflicts bring to this world-game. And moreover, to complain about the inconsistent rules about how such issues can and are treated in the game.

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Cheerio!