In light of the recent developments surrounding hacking, I find it puzzling that many of the top discords (Pub Halls, Pub Shatts, SBC) don’t ban scammers(people who legitimately grief players and ruin the gaming experience for other players) as opposed to hackers, people that have an advantage over players, that in most cases don’t directly harm the player experience as much as scamming does. Even some of the RLs (namely a shitty t6 ring) have been exposed for using their positions in the discord for scamming purposes.
While many players continue to heckle DECA for allowing hackers to thrive, scamming has always been a TOS violation that receives lower attention(probably because DECA is lazy af and will never add an in-game marketplace and players have accepted the fact that nothing will change). Scamming is a bigger issue now more than ever before due to the volatile economy forcing players to enact multi-window trades, which allow scammers to earn insanely easy profit.
I understand that many players will point to “play the game and get it yourself” and “find a plug(lmk who it is pls :D) through discords/guilds”. Another argument is that you should always check scammer lists and go first in a trade. While these are all good points, ultimately they fail to adhere to the fact that many players don’t have 3000 hours in candyland, don’t have a plug, the player that they are trying to trade may not be on the scammer list and still be a scammer, and the fact that nobody will go first in a trade unless they can risk it. Heck, even MOONSHOOT the legendary trickster ppe god was recently scammed through a deca trade. While he/she/they/cat may be an insanely rich player, getting scammed is a really shitty feeling and really highlights an issue with the game(mmo with shitty trade experience). While said precautions may be necessary, a permanent solution really resides with the game devs in creating an in-game marketplace. We have been cutting DECA way too much slack on the trading experience, especially since their shitty chest events created an extremely volatile economy which now hosts almost exclusively multi-window trades. The trading experience is also extremely beginner unfriendly( light blue star literally loses their entire fortune to a deca scam), and maybe one of the reasons why realm activity is extremely low.
I guess the reason for the title was to highlight how a situation that is actual griefing(like duping) and harms player experience is hardly addressed by the community(not just the game). Players are encouraged not to make “whine cellars” that complain about scammers(yes I get it, no witch hunts, but people should be allowed to criticize scamming). Some players ridicule others that scamming rests entirely on the victim(for deselect yes, multi no), and that real “gamers” would never get scammed. Almost all active players accept the status of trading and move on. While this could be an acceptable mentality for veteran players, DECA will never become a massive presence in any form if it fails to address trading, nexus botting and duping. It’s really sad that we allow DECA to get away with this shit because their are other issues that they have(making a new dungeon in order to make a chest event) to address. The community really needs to enforce stricter guidelines for scamming in discords in general(with video proof obviously, no witchhunts) if they want to keep a #trading section. The greatest gut punch in realm is knowing that someone can run the same dungeon as you with your stolen loot and face no repercussions because the community doesn’t give two fucks.