If done ethically and with proper controls a system of exchanging bans will allow server admins to keep out the tiny percentage point of miserable souls whose presence simply spoils it for everyone else.
This will improve the gameplay experience for all legitimate players and therefore drive the popularity of the game. The only people that will be disadvantaged are those who have given up the right to play on privately run servers through their actions.
Good, fair and effective administration/moderating is the hallmark of a thriving gaming community and will actually INCREASE KF's popularity and global player numbers for this reason, contrary to what you said.
For instance that is how things are done on my server which has less than 20 permanent bans or <0.01% of the player base and not through negligence.
HOWEVER:
If server owners decide to ban everyone with ginger hair they are ultimately far within their rights. Nobody apart from the owner has any inherent right whatsoever to play somewhere, it is a free privilege granted through the owner's generosity.
To the "I didn't pay $20 to be banned" crowd: you forget that you have bought a game not the right to play on any server anywhere (unless Tripwire themselves run some) and furthermore since not a sniff of a cent of your money went towards server owners' costs this line generally serves to just piss them off, and rightly so.
This will improve the gameplay experience for all legitimate players and therefore drive the popularity of the game. The only people that will be disadvantaged are those who have given up the right to play on privately run servers through their actions.
Good, fair and effective administration/moderating is the hallmark of a thriving gaming community and will actually INCREASE KF's popularity and global player numbers for this reason, contrary to what you said.
For instance that is how things are done on my server which has less than 20 permanent bans or <0.01% of the player base and not through negligence.
HOWEVER:
If server owners decide to ban everyone with ginger hair they are ultimately far within their rights. Nobody apart from the owner has any inherent right whatsoever to play somewhere, it is a free privilege granted through the owner's generosity.
To the "I didn't pay $20 to be banned" crowd: you forget that you have bought a game not the right to play on any server anywhere (unless Tripwire themselves run some) and furthermore since not a sniff of a cent of your money went towards server owners' costs this line generally serves to just piss them off, and rightly so.
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