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Calm down; nothing has changed, no one important has gotten banned.
Despite the rumors and spicy memes flying around, nothing has changed for average players except EME taking a more active stance on 3rd party programs offering massive in-game advantages to their users. That means your usual UI mods, proxies, DPS meters that solely convey DPS information are still in the grey area that will not be touched, just like before. EME's recent stance is on injectors and scripts in particular, which can be greatly unfair to players who do not use them and can be seen as cheating.
The two confirmed bans so far were for scriptors, both of which fairly vocal in the community, making it seem like a great deal than actuality. The one posting everywhere trying to defend his actions actively tried to sell injector scripts for the past several months (which weren't mentioned anywhere, I might add), despite all that he claimed to do(?) for the community. The other, has stated he will release malicious scripts now that he is banned. They won't be missed.
The two confirmed bans so far were for scriptors, both of which fairly vocal in the community, making it seem like a great deal than actuality. The one posting everywhere trying to defend his actions actively tried to sell injector scripts for the past several months (which weren't mentioned anywhere, I might add), despite all that he claimed to do(?) for the community. The other, has stated he will release malicious scripts now that he is banned. They won't be missed.
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> Despite the rumors and spicy memes flying around, nothing has changed for average players except EME taking a more active stance on 3rd party programs offering massive in-game advantages to their users. That means your usual UI mods, proxies, DPS meters that solely convey DPS information are still in the grey area that will not be touched, just like before. EME's recent stance is on injectors and scripts in particular, which can be greatly unfair to players who do not use them and can be seen as cheating.
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> The two confirmed bans so far were for scriptors, both of which fairly vocal in the community, making it seem like a great deal than actuality. The one posting everywhere trying to defend his actions actively tried to sell injector scripts for the past several months (which weren't mentioned anywhere, I might add), despite all that he claimed to do(?) for the community. The other, has stated he will release malicious scripts now that he is banned. They won't be missed.
If that post came from a staff member, about 90% of the current uproar would disappear, but... It didn't and it won't.
The members who were banned were known for making the 3rd party tools that are against ToS, yes, and I cannot say it was something malicious or not, I've not reverse engineered it or seen it trough the server or even used on my PC, so I don't stand with or against them on that.
Whoever they're also the ones that - against the ToS - created the FPS optimization guide for various hardware types, that simply allow people to play TERA at anything other than a slideshow in some cases.
I'll be honest to say I'm a lucky one to have the game run quite butter smooth on my lowly hardware, I mean a mid tier graphics card from 2011, really? Pushing 80 FPS open World, 30~50 FPS Kumas match?? I'm sitting on gold here. Other many players required these guy's guides to play decently at least. That's not what I would call a malicious software change, and from what I know of programming and seen on the tweaks, really nothing malicious on these tweaks.
Also I agree with you heavily on the part that: it's been blown out of proportions too much, mostly because of the community yes, but I'll not just free up Enmasse team from their part of the deal: the simple lock on the lots of threads without a single explanation enraged players more than 10 brawlers at once, only now they're getting back at dealing with it in a civil manner not Kim Jon style.
But I also understand their reasoning for staying a bit quiet until the dust settles: people with pitchforks and torches do not listen to anything that's not on their side. Let the torches cool down and pitchforks get back into shed and let's talk like people.
Correct me if I'm wrong on the optimizations thing, as far as I recall they're the responsible ones for it.
Do you seriously believe the ini tweaking is against the ToS?
A contribution to the community does not wash out a rule that was broken. The ban was warranted. While the FPS optimization guide was nice, there is still the fact the person in question also sold balantly bannable scripts that offered great advantages to end-game players.
didn't I said explicitly that it was TECHNICALLY against it? It IS a game modification and it goes against the rules.
Downloading a free MP3 that is not available legally on your country from a learning book's CD that is also not sold on your country still constitutes piracy, good use or not. Some countries do have laws that outline when the cultural material in question is impossible to obtain legally, but it's still not the case always. Doesn't make it any more legal that it's a learning book or a MP3 with the sound recording of some hardcore porn, it's still piracy.
I'm all in for the optimization tweaks, and think they should be completely removed from the ToS violation thing, but it still IS technically a ToS violation. Same as Elin voice mods/panties mods/you name it. Does no harm, still against ToS. That "technically illegal" is what made the entire uproar and fear spreading on the forums.
Unlucky
It is, though.