I have been a player in ESO since beta and have been a leader in one of the longest standing end game guilds on the NA server. I have loved this game, despite waves of my old friends leaving for other games because they got tired for waiting for new content or because they were frustrated over ever changing game mechanics that destroyed what we loved about the game when it first came out. I stayed because I had invested so much time and built a community that I loved and still found the game fun.

This last wave of bans targeted folks I know for a fact are not hacker/exploiters. It was a lazy, catch all ban that seemed to take anyone wearing some set that was bugged. Two of my longstanding guild members and friends had compiled video of that bug to report (as they have done for many others in the past). These are the players that, along with others like them, find and report game breaking bugs and help maintain the integrity of our competitive content. They do not do these tests to further their progression. In fact, they sink a lot of game time and resources into it and basically lose progression in order to help the community. These people should not be banned--they should be on ZOS's payroll.

Anyways, after seeing the way ZOS handled this it has finally been enough to drive even me away. I can no longer support a company that uses such sloppy tactics. I no longer feel safe investing my time in a game that does not respect its player base and can take away years of your progress on a whim or someone's bad call. I encourage any other people who feel the same to also remove their support from ZOS.

I agree with Brandelwine 100%. This wave of bannings was extremely ham-handed, poorly-implemented, and absolutely disgraceful. I am all for removing cheaters and exploiters from the game, but there is a world of difference between banning accounts for using Cheat Engine (a second-party program whose sole reason for existence is cheating) or for using hacks and exploits to post high leaderboard scores and haphazardly banning an entire group of people who were caught in a detection utility without paying any attention to what those people were actually doing.

I know of one person caught in this recent wave of banning who had no prior infractions of any kind. He put on the set after hearing in game that it was broken, and went to test it. A few days later, he was permanently banned.

This is a player who does this sort of thing (testing bugs/gear/etc.) compulsively. He has provided feeback and bug reports to ZOS on multiple occasions. In other words, this is a player who works to make this game BETTER.

Removing players in this sort of utterly incompetent manner was a very poor decision on the part of ZOS, and the consequences/fallout from it (for this game's community) are only now starting to roll out. There will be a domino effect from these bannings that is going to have far-reaching effects. Effects that, for those who care about the treatment of good players by an increasingly callous and oblivious company, are absolutely justified.

This has been a sad week in a game that I have loved for two and a half years and had hoped to enjoy playing for years to come.

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