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Originally Posted by unbankthx
Again, that does not explain the methodology. Are those numbers for all the unique players on ALL of the OT servers across ALL games? How consistent is the data? Was there ever data lost? When did you guys begin collecting it? Have you been collecting data since the beginning of FF? If that's the case, then it's easy to see those numbers making sense, because when the game was new, lots of people played it. If you tried to tell me that even two years ago that out of the entire active FF community, less than 50% were banned from the OT server, I'd laugh.
Data is easy to skew in your favor. Throwing in a hundred thousand players who played the game for maybe less than an hour total, and never picked up the game can certainly make the impact of the OT banlist seem not as harmless as it really is. There's many confounding variables that can possibly be shown that exhibit the OT banlist is actually harmful, but since you guys don't show your methodology when you come up with those statistics that you publicly list, I have a hard time taking them with more than a grain of rice. If you data was updated, I think it's clear that it would show that at least half or more of the current active FF population was banned at your servers.
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Who cares if it's just their FF server, or if it's all of their game servers? An assbag is an assbag. A banned assbag is no longer a problem for you. Did you actually read that page? With very few exceptions, the ban is explained. Why can't you admit to the fact that there are players who aren't mature enough to control themselves enough to obey a server's rules? Also, consider that the number might be skewed by the number of assholes who simply went there with the intent of being banned, so they could come here and cry foul. Yes, I've seen it happen. One person gets banned, tells a bunch of their e-friends, who act all tough on the internet and flood the server with a bunch of bullshit. End result? BANNED. Next thing you know, a bunch of people are bitching about OT... and yeah, some people end up thinking that OT bans people for every least little infraction, when it simply isn't true.