cgf123`

It's worth noting that the services provided to you by GR/Revora were build and are provided by the players here, and no profit has been made from them, and the sacrifices members here have made, in time and effort, has led to your ability to play these games on their servers.

I like this sentence because it's neither true or relevant. They built it, it's up to them how they wish to moderate it.

Perfectly understood - except if this service was created FOR the community, why would you make decisions that are AGAINST our interests? The only possible answers are:

a) You don't respect our interests

b) You don't understand our interests

if this is going to continue to be the case, we'd rather not play on Revora... and in the end, it wouldn't be worth it for anyone - neither us players, nor the admins putting their time into managing it

I'm not denying GZ reacted with immaturity, but permanent bans in this community, especially without the players' consent, feel 100% out of place.

Banning GZ accomplishes absolutely NOTHING GOOD besides settling an old personal score -- and that's all this is about... petty personal scores, which is how this whole matter even began.

The admins here dont play the game, so they have no clue what it feels like to lose some of our best players. Perhaps if the community shared the admins' opinon towards GZ, I could totally see a strong case for a long-term ban, because such a player is truly detrimental to the playerbase.

But its not the case -- the community doesn't have issues with GZ; we value him highly as a player and caster. He's very respectful and appreciative of what other players offer to enrich the community -- be it with their gameplay ability, casting, creating maps, mods etc. He's known to trash talk a little, but it's harmless and not rude to the point that any hardened veteran of this game would take personally.

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Actually, you know what?

If GZ is unbanned and he makes a 'mess' again, I'd be 10000000% happy to PERSONALLY help 'clean up' the mess (and hopefully there will be other volunteers too), if I'm given the chance -- I'm willing to offer MY time, and I'm willing to shoulder the burden you guys take... as long as it gives me SOME say in the matter of who gets banned and why.

I mean... apparently you don't seem to understand or value what we as players or content creators offer to the game's community as a whole, and hence take no heed of our opinons. So why not give me a chance to offer you my services in a way that you DO understand?

I'm willing to open my eyes and understand your perspective... are you guys willing to do the same?