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Ahh the classic "Was just a social experiment bro!" His back peddling doesn't invalidate what he said, at all.
You make some valid points, Painwheel. It's true that lower pinged players will always have an advantage, but TERA is designed around everyone having 30 ping. There are ways BHS could fix the issue easily. A suggestion was made to change skills like Rapid Fire to act like Traverse Cut where it executes automatically but can be cancelled. But yes, I do agree if you cheat in a game you will be banned.
This.
Most people will give advice on glyphs or rotations/positioning in order to help those who are putting out low dps. The people who are elitist enough to complain about low dps usually have their own statics or they're in 'elitist' guilds anyway; if they join an LFG or IMS they should expect things to not go as smoothly as they're used to in that case. If people are getting excluded from future runs it's most likely because they've been given advice and they're showing that they're not willing to listen or they have an attitude, or simply because people don't like them. There are people who don't care what dps they're doing and they just want to play casually and that's fine, but those same people can't get mad at those who take it more seriously. Unfortunately some people take unsolicited advice as harrassment or insult even if that's far from the intention, I've even gotten blocked for little things like telling a priest they plagued Nightmare Lachelith too early. If people are getting kicked it's usually due to them not doing well at the dungeon in general and/or they are the cause of constant party wipes, not low dps.
You lack the ability to not attack people at every turn.
But cheating is not a solution just because an Archer is in California.
If people are still concerned, they should check out a great post made by ElinLove.
https://forums.enmasse.com/tera/discussion/comment/138318/#Comment_138318
EME doesn't want people to go googling for the cheats themselves although this one is pretty wide-spread already so I guess why this post was made. Although other than that I do agree they could handle this a lot better. On a side-note and what spacecats already pointed out. He said that ping from aussie to japan to USA as a routing example, NOT to be taken as literal. People freak out over anything.
Also as for the monitoring of people using a 3rd party program, for a long time in the EU it was illegal for any company to look outside of their respective program files on any consumers PC for 3rd party software etc as it's a breach of privacy laws. (Currently I am unaware of any change to those laws but it's not my field - anyone that can post an update?). That being if this 3rd party program is just sampling packets to tell people their dps rather than actively editing files it shouldn't be in breach of TOS from how it read.
Also notepad has been used to edit and tweak client side settings from volume to graphics for games for almost 3 decades, it was left as an accessible tool for consumers to use by so many thousands of developers that I'd find it hard to believe EME would have grounds to void TOS. Unless you're seriously going to up your customer support game, which is severely lacking and has been for quite some time in relationship to Optimization and Stability of the Game and your servers.
I don't use any programs or UI mods (though some UI mods are really prettyand make up for the laggy flash UI Tera uses). So this doesn't really effect me, but as a large portion of the player base that has been around for years - in some cases since launch, do use it I can only forsee this damaging EME's player base.
Be interesting to see what happens as TERA has gone from one of the most populated NA MMO's to the 8th most populated in the space of two years.
I am not justifying the use of cheating or third party programs. I'm saying the issues need to be addressed.
I'm attacking you because you refuse to listen to anything that anyone has to say regarding ping related issues even when it's not being used as justification to use a third party program.
The problem here is that these peeps are just trolling, they are the ones using a tbag third party program which many players use on tera just to make fun of some1 after they kill them, and then call you "noob br git gud" or also see them on discord as it happend on mine, i only get in there to make more drama, and some of them left the game years ago and are just having fun making us answer now, and some others are walking around on vo with their +15 killing everyone on sight, but ofc then when there is no competition they call out on global chat "ded geim", but hey we are the toxic ones here, smh.
Then there's peeps that bring up race with hypothetical scenarios and wrongly accuse others at every chance they get.
Yeah, I get your point. I was actually reminded of Zurvan and the pomander thing for FFXIV. Clearly I spend too much time reading the subreddit. Also, sometimes vulnerabilities are disclosed to put pressure on companies to fix bugs. Obviously the situation is a bit different with game companies though.
Well, I only pointed that out because if we're talking about being admirable we can talk about both sides. I really think this could have been handled better.
When was that?
A long time ago.
@Spacecats
If these things will be bannable offenses a lot of people will quit tera including me, i am a veteran player for like 4 years now with something like 1-2 years elite.
I would really love an answer on this matter so i know if i will continue playing Tera and keep my elite subscription. Thanks.
I'm on Ultros since that's where my friends were, so I doubt we're on the same server, but we can be cross server friends.