Guild Wars 2 Players Exploit Bug, ArenaNet Gets BanHappy

Banning players is fun and should be done whenever possible.

I like to see a developer taking cheaters seriously.

You just gotta hope it keeps up. I recall in the old days of WoW people used to be nervous about their language in general and trade chat, but as the years gone on you see a lot of harassment, expletives, and such constantly throughout the public chat space, which sucked when you are trying to teach a young kid to play an what not. Gamers will be gamers, but I am skeptical that they might be doing strategies that teachers use....start of strong at first to scare the hell out of people then start cutting back once respect is earned and a few examples were made.

Halo ** cough cough**

Its nice to see them taking a proactive stance against botters, exploiters, and hackers.

I'm an advocate of using the banhammer as often as possible. If I made an MMO, I'd put in a system where the players can vote to ban someone, via a list of everyone who is nominated for banning, the reason why. Let everyone vote for an entire week, if the majority vote yes, goodbye... of course there would be some kind of appeal system to curb abuse.