Why is Account Sharing Bad?

He did not share his account, but someone shared their account information with him and he was using that someone's account for his own benefits.

2.10 Association with Abusers - Associating with any player involved in the any aforementioned abuse via party, trade, or any other methods makes you guilty by association. If you witness any form of abuse, please contact a member of the MapleLegends Staff (preferably with evidence such as a screenshot/video). Punishment: Equivalent Punishment as Original Abuser

I think you guys are confusing the ToS and reading only what you wish to read. If Hotguy6pack was to have only logged to the shared acc and play on it, then only the shared account would have been banned. In this case, Hotguy6pack was using the shared account aka being ASSOCIATED with this ABUSER (sharing accounts) --- being in a party and buffing himself is considered in rule 2.10.

If you are regarding this comment to the sarcastic smegas the community was pooting out after this "Hotguy6pack's" ban.......... oops sorry

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You guys are all so quick to judge 'staff bias' due to personal affairs or situations from the past. To be fair, I and most of the staff who were online at the time of this happening don't even know this Hotguy6pack player personally or even care about what he did/has been through in the past or whatnot, other than he is a rank 1 player. Respect as a MapleLegends 'Top Ranker', yes, but I feel that what actions we took was the correct thing to do. He was caught in the act, and proper measures regardless of who this player was or is, was taken into action. THERE IS NO BIAS. We are just doing our jobs.

People asking why Hotguy6pack was the only one to get banned? He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Again, as the retired staff etc.,/everyone should hopefully know, we need enough and proper evidence in order to judge/ban/whatever a player. Without this, even if we personally assume someone is sharing an account, we are unable to ban them without proper evidence. Which is fair for both sides in an unbiased perspective.

Again, you guys are free to quote snitch quote your friends or foes that you know to 'account share', but as you are not going to, there's nothing we can do about it other than further investigate in our own methods at our own given time and pace. But YET AGAIN! If you feel resentful and hateful of staff due to our actions of only banning the player that we are able to catch within our current perspective.. welp, sorry. Why not help us widen our horizon instead? (Ofc this is just me asking for too much. ^^)

And if this makes you guys feel any better, there are new people within the staff now. I don't know what kind of history you had or have with previous ones but please do not judge our current team based on what you are used to.

 

I don't care if you don't believe me, but I always afk in Ch4 fm so I am assuming you were caught and banned in channel 4 fm.
The account you were associated with was reported a few times, thus when we saw it, we obviously did a check up. Sorry if this is bad staff behavior for you.
But I do want to thank you for the free Echos from time to time.

 

I don't know what happened to you in the past or how rules were enforced back then, but we are doing as we do NOW. You will most likely find and see more people getting banned, as you helped us confirmed "90%" of the population is doing it, so please do not resent us too much for now.

 

I will apologize if you felt I was trying to brush the past away, so I will empathize instead, however it is not up to me to apologize for the past as I and most of our current staff was not involved; these matters are things to be solved privately if must.

But yes, please look forward to our current and new staff/teamwork, as we only hope to be of-consistent and to the server's favor.

 

I agree with you, however you must remember that despite a member of staff representing the whole of us, we are also players doing this in our free time. (Not trying to make excuses, but really.) I can see that many is or was unsatisfied of how things were done, however as everyone should know, conflicts happen. Debates occur. People are just people, even if you group them together and put a label on them. Not everything can be settled in a satisfactory-level no matter how hard we try. There are just some opinions and people that do not match together; this has be considered too, and despite it being completely poo, we cannot do anything about it if the opposing sides always seem to clash, we can only hope that the tiny bit of satisfication is enough to subdue the negative factors.

We cannot guarantee 500% satisfaction to every player, but we will try to give as much as we are able to.

 

Please realize we do not just sit in the FM playing the guessing game of who is who and if they share accounts and check every player and command there is available. We rely on reports and hard evidence. Again, I don't know how to make you believe that this was not selective but truly a coincidence cause there just happened to be a GM in your map at the time.

Congratulations on hitting 200 on both characters though, I will not deny that this takes much dedication.

Also, I guess I respect your loyalty to friends, but this again is a matter of time, and to make it fair and unbiased for you (even if you don't want it to be fair) we will take more time and effort to investigate into this issue.