Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Player Impersonation

I just really want to post something about this because we've have had this little incident that has happened at the last two "Ravenwood Radio" after parties, and now it is getting to the point where is it really annoying me a lot. I won't go into the incident, but just get to the point of the subject I am talking about.

I want to talk about "impersonating", or a person acting like they are another person. I'm not talking about the comedians who do impersonations of famous people to get you to laugh. I'm talking about a person impersonation another person to hurt that person's image and/or to hurt another player.

Impersonating someone is not funny at all, especially when the goal is to hurt a person's image or to make them look like the culprit. It's also something that can be easily found, because with computers, people can track not only which account that character belongs to, but also the IP address from where the account comes from. Therefore, in the end, you're going to be found out anyway. A big reason of why you should not impersonate any player in the spiral, or in any game for that matter.

You also should never impersonate any person who is a staff member, or any employee of any game. Most online games have very strict penalties for impersonating staff, usually a permanent ban if caught. It's just about impossible to do this and get away with it, for usually the staff is behind the scenes of the game, and usually players who have played the game long enough will know when a player is lying about being staff.

So, in closing, never impersonate any person in the game, ever. You will end up just getting yourself into more trouble than you want, and the spiral should be a happy place where players can mingle and have fun, without having all the trouble.

2 comments:

  1. Well said, James. I wish the culprit who has visited us twice so far would read this and take note.

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  2. I believe this is a subject too that has been talked about on a previous episode of Ravenwood Radio.

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