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why limit 98% because of 2%? i don't get it. if its that much of a problem remove it, don't penalize the rest. we are here to have fun and make money. we can't if we are limited. limits=no fun. maybe i don't get what is wrong, just doesn't seem fair, sorry.
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It's not 2%, that is the percentage that will be affected in theory, the actual figure on the number of bots in game has not been specified or they simply don't know.
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(really just hitting reply and aiming this at the community at large, despite making use of your quote...nothing should be taken as being directed at one specific person...)
Exactly. 2% was an estimate of what proportion of the innocent non bot-using population will unfortunately be negatively effected by the current anti-bot crusade-of-the-week.
Of course, if you take into account the chilling effect of folks afraid to play for fear of being branded a cheater, you realize that 2% is an underestimate.
Scarier than EA's stance on the 2% is the "you must be a bot" attitude of the typical poster on this site. Not all of you, but enough that it was scary. 98% of you? *smirk*
Before the super-hot and active thread got locked and "replaced" with this far less-viewed one due to the other more controversial thread supposedly no longer being relevant due to the new updated memorandum from the Maxi$ Ministry of Truth (smirk), I found the analogies to socialist totalitarian government forms to be most intriguing. I suppose in the past, during the Witchunt Days, one could make an analogy to vigilante groups going around from lot to lot looking for "bots", and then reporting them to the government. A lot of innocent folks got hurt, to the point where there were heated threads right here on this site about the whole thing, with folks being so scared of being accused that they either stopped playing until it blew over or quit entirely. So yeah, it's scary when the "government" itself is "rounding folks up" willy-nilly, and says not to worry about the 2% of the population that will be falsely imprisoned.
But I think a better analogy would be the immigration issue. It's like being told we've got to do something about these "illegals", they're ruining the country, so we're going to round up all the folks of Hispanic decent and ship 'em all to Mexico. Never mind if the majority of 'em are naturally born U.S. citizens who happen to have Latino ancestry -- serves ya right for lookin' too much like a "criminal". So, to be on the safe side, and rid the country of "illegals", some sacrifices must be made, and a few "innocent" people might get deported. But don't worry: 98% of y'all are white as toast, so you got nothing to worry about. It's just the Hispanics we're targeting, so why should you care? Carry on with your normal business, and look the other way when your neighbors disappear in the night.
Sadly, if you can pull this off in the political arena, you can certainly pull off something similar in the microcosm of an online gaming community.
(not looking to start an argument about the immigration issue...just making an analogy...though it's interesting that on the immigration issue [on another site] I've been threatened with violence and tar 'n' feathered as a "race traitor"...and here, if folks speak up, they get tar 'n' feathered as a "cheater" or "obvious bot user". So, different issues of far differing seriousness...but the same lowlife tactic in use...)