Quote Originally Posted by Zandrae View Post
I feel like they've been getting more lax, giving people 6 month and 18 month slaps on the wrist. In a perfect world the method above would work, but I don't actually think that it'll actually deter anyone.
Well, consider that if they temp ban people long enough to make it to the next expansion, those folks will probably buy that. Whereas permabans mean people would have to buy the battle chest first. They might also buy a whole new game, play it for the duration of the temp ban, then pay *again* to xfer characters back to the old account or the new one when the temp ban is up, and end up buying the expansion possibly twice! They have the historical data to analyze trends in those behaviors; I can't believe they would just arbitrarily decide to "get lax" on this without data to back it up.