What about a Canadian dude who went to community college? I'd take his advice over any MIT grad.

while your argument is humorous, it i s pretty flawed. i won't fault you for not having a great understanding of corporate termination practices, but i will tell you that you would be hard pressed to fire someone from a medium to large sized corporation for something that did not involve breach or contract, a violation of a written company policy, or a violation of a state or federal law -- without serious reprocusssions -- ranging from a wrongful termination lawsuit to outright discrimination. also, the comparison of players to employees is inherently flawed -- but thats really irrelevent to destroying your argument.

sure, you probably wont find many corporations whose written rules dictate that employees should not urinate on their bosses desks, however i'm sure you will find at least a few state laws that violates -- infact, in your list below -- funny as you made it sound, all but one of your listed items violates an obvious law -- sure those things are obviously verbotten. what's wrong with hiring a team of MIT grads?

find me though, a massively multiplayer game that *doesn't* have teams, guilds, friends, partnerships, groups; that *doesn't* explicity disallow them, and doesn't have this issue. then maybe we can do a more valid comparison.

hey pet, remember that time that i stole a monthly 3rd place from you because of a game that was played which started 5 minutes into the next month? god, that was hilarious, it feels like it happened only last week.

wtf i'm a mechanical engineer!

not some dude in community college

Maybe I was talking about someone else?

5er's Canadian for all you know.

So is William Shattner.

we were in the wild wild west, no rules. Perhaps it is time we all went to confession.

Well, I see that you've been stewing over my metaphor on the other post a bit rnd :) The point of it was there are unwritten rules that most people follow.

Of course the employee part of it doesn’t apply 100%, its a metaphor.

As far as your argument that 'everyone else is doing it': it doesn’t work for kids either.

I think this game would be great if you could make public alliances or play 2v2, 3v3, etc. But that is not the way it was.

In a perfect world (I have a dream) you could just turn on the 'no pga' switch and everyone could laugh about the time before the switch was turned on instead of being banned, stripped, or blocked.

btw, Ryan can I get 1st place for all these counterpoints?

someone make KArgument