Back from my workout, now I’m awake and not sleepy and short-tempered.
Okay.
I don’t know much about legality, and I certainly don’t plan on taking anyone to court because I really, really don’t know how that stuff works. I even tried researching it, and it’s all Greek to me.
But here are my refined thoughts on the idea of a character wipe. It’s an extreme measure that should be avoided at all costs. I’m in agreement that if it will solve all the problems of duping, hacking, botting, and so on, then, with great regret, I’ll have to back IMC on it.
I hate botters. I found a website belonging to someone who made a botting program that many bots use here in EA. From what I’ve read on that end, he’s constantly tweaking his coding and whatnot to bypass all the measures IMC takes. You have this guy, and then you have all the (assumed) Chinese Silver Farmers, all of whom make their own programs. They constantly tweak their coding to bypass all of IMC’s measures.
Doing a character wipe will only be another temporary solution. These people are clever. They’ll find a way around it. If they’re really cut-throat, not even an IP ban will work. It’s going to be a constant, possibly never-ending war with them.