https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3091183
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Exploit Ban
After a nice long post-100 sleep, my brother mentioned to me that Empyrean was banned. I asked why, and he explained that Empyrean was endlessly farming monsters in the Ultimatums by not completing the objectives (either not standing in the stone circles or not staying in the arena for survival, I don’t know if it was just one or both, but that doesn’t matter to me). Baffled, I thought, what on earth could be wrong with that? I mean, we had even tried that but abandoned it immediately because it didn’t give experience. Apparently, my brother said, that was an “exploit.”
Okay, let’s talk about this GGG. Through all your stealth patches, undocumented game mechanics and game changes, and general level of constant ambiguity about how the game works, through all the bugs and wacky (viz. terrible) game design decisions, you expect players to guess how exactly you as developers have intended for us to play the game, and then when we encounter something that we think you think is the “wrong” way to play, we have to not do it or else we will get banned.
How absolutely absurd is that? You guys literally write the game. You have the power to write the rules that govern the universe in which we play. If you don’t want us to do something, you can literally make us not able to do it. And if we figure out a way to play the game more efficiently than you thought of when you were writing the game, that’s called intelligence. You should be congratulating such players on their creativity and cunning, not drop kicking them into outer space.
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