[Moriarty]

I missed a lot of the action last night and am just catching up with this however im amazed at the amount of surprise there is over the new raft of bannings.

When W00k and Loki decided to call it a day by destroying their character along with the others it could have stopped there. Instead a bunch of players from the same gang decided to try and take it too far and bring RL into it and try to disrupt the game. At this point the remaining members of the gang could have chosen to distance themselves from all this or stand by them. Some of them chose to stand by them and continued to disrupt the game. Their actions were detrimental to new players enjoying the game. They are old enough players to know this. They knew what they were doing and the effect it would have.

The rest of the gang now have a choice. Stand by them or draw a line, reform and play on.

From when I have played this game at the root of this gang has been an external forum. When Loki and W00K left SVs tried to recruit a couple of good Xpat members. One of which informed us his game life would be made difficult if he left Xpats. He was told this on an external forum. One of the things I know to be true is the act of finding peoples personal info is a common thing on this forum. If the challenge has been laid down there to be the player that disrupts the game the most then the game means nothing to them and they wont be missed.

If the new bans turn out to be guilty by association then that is unfortunate, however I feel they had a chance to distance themselves and instead chose not too and even changed their way of playing for the worse.