They are not hasty or generalizations. I’m also not going to tout what I know by sounding pretentious either. Ultimately if it is not one thing, it is another. If it isn’t admin abuse, favouritism or controlling the players, then it’s usually the strangest omissions of the game or rules that do not fit my expectation. Which is vanilla.

When you get into true vanilla you run the risk of the absentee admin. That happens a lot more than people realize. So there’s no one there to mitigate hackers, exploiters and abusers. Just like Officials.

There’s a post on the front page of the forums where an admin is removing the use of a weapon because they’re failing to understand the true nature of the problem. So instead of listening to others who have this understanding, they’re entirely removing a perfectly fine element of the game.

A good majority of privates are RP and a great portion of those require all players to abide by the rules and engage in that RP. I am not an RPer. I have no interest in it. So I won’t go on those either.

Some choose to accept these issues. I don’t. I’ve been around long enough and I don’t immediately dismiss privates as an option. They always without fail to some degree fit into a category or multiple on their own.

Funcom has made their bed in that regard. They could do better but have remained silent other than acknowledging the problems with performance on G-Portal. Instead of communicating with us on possible plans in the future, if any, to improve the hosting. Instead they could just say “too bad, you get this and that is it”. Instead we’re strung along.

Sure, but we’re not lacking in judgment for having chosen to play on Officials. There’s good reasons for doing so even with all the problems. Sort of like how people choose to play on privates and accept the problems that come with those. I don’t think that anyone is an idiot for choosing privates over Officials. They have their own legitimate reasons.

My point was options. For multiplayer there are 3 in that list. For online experiencing with many, 2.

We have options and choices. We all choose what we think is best for us.

For hacking, the root needs to be addressed to achieve our expectations for all invested in the game. Not avoid it.

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