I feel the same way about locked accounts, banned accounts, suspended accounts, abandoned accounts, accounts on haitus, etc. If it belongs to someone else it doesn't need to be automagically gifted to other people.
Not only is it problematic if someone comes back or was wrongfully banned and gets their account reinstated, can you imagine the immense waterfalls of drama about who got X item and how unfair it is that they got X item and no one else did? We already have a stupid conspiracy theory bouncing around about festival contest skins. We don't need one about other things.
Fair enough. Idt I've ever heard of someone getting their account back if they were banned, even if they were wrongly banned, so I didn't think about that. Though if someone got rightly banned I wouldn't say the stuff on that account really belongs to them any more; they forfeit it by doing whatever for them banned, which is why I asked this question. And I was thinking about items, not dragons, but I could definitely imagine banned players bothering anyone they knew got their stuff. But yeah, it invites too much nonsense.
one other thing to consider: some banned accounts were banned for using exploits. if someone got banned for duping or botting, it wouldn't be good to redistribute their stuff because those are items that either shouldn't have existed to begin with, or were bought with treasure that shouldn't have existed to begin with. banning those accounts quickly and locking all those ill-gotten items/money where it is helps contain the damage to the fr economy that might result from an exploit.
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Re: Okay but
(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)I feel the same way about locked accounts, banned accounts, suspended accounts, abandoned accounts, accounts on haitus, etc. If it belongs to someone else it doesn't need to be automagically gifted to other people.
Not only is it problematic if someone comes back or was wrongfully banned and gets their account reinstated, can you imagine the immense waterfalls of drama about who got X item and how unfair it is that they got X item and no one else did? We already have a stupid conspiracy theory bouncing around about festival contest skins. We don't need one about other things.
Re: Okay but
(Anonymous) 2016-02-27 01:50 am (UTC)(link)Fair enough. Idt I've ever heard of someone getting their account back if they were banned, even if they were wrongly banned, so I didn't think about that. Though if someone got rightly banned I wouldn't say the stuff on that account really belongs to them any more; they forfeit it by doing whatever for them banned, which is why I asked this question. And I was thinking about items, not dragons, but I could definitely imagine banned players bothering anyone they knew got their stuff. But yeah, it invites too much nonsense.
Re: Okay but
(Anonymous) 2016-02-27 02:04 am (UTC)(link)one other thing to consider: some banned accounts were banned for using exploits. if someone got banned for duping or botting, it wouldn't be good to redistribute their stuff because those are items that either shouldn't have existed to begin with, or were bought with treasure that shouldn't have existed to begin with. banning those accounts quickly and locking all those ill-gotten items/money where it is helps contain the damage to the fr economy that might result from an exploit.