My first Rant thread; hopefully to make the community think.

[Athenum]

Yes, In a way, this is my first Rant thread. I'm posting this knowing the risks that it can be misconstrued as a trolling/flame thread. It isn't it's way of venting out properly things going on in-game, hopefully to make people think, hopefully to make people change, if none of that happens at least to inform the community about these things that have been going on.

• Nowadays, it is frustrating to see so many people with borderline names. I can't name any but we all see them. I have to admit that its sad to a lot coming from people from my nationality. They do it because they can get away with it, because filters don't apply to our native tongue. What's wrong with a regular character name? Not cool enough? Seriously? It's not the name that makes you cool. It's the person using the toon.
  
• Selling gold/plat/levelled toons/game items/for prepaid phone credits/real money. These aren't scams. They're real and can deliver. I have an idea of how they do it, most are probably done in questionable ways. I'm not sure of the percentage of successful transactions vs scams but it's being done. Again, most from my nationality. One of the reasons claimed that it's done is to help those who can't attain the items. I believe this isn't true by doing so, they just deprived the player of money on a free to play game by violating the TOS which in turn could get the player banned. I would say that isn't helping, that's taking advantage of someone for their own personal gain.
  
• Selling illegal substances/Sexual harassment in game. Seriously? In a game that KIDS PLAY? What kind of person in their right mind would do this?
  
• PVP taken too far. I can understand the rules have changed in PVP. It's no longer red vs blue. Its gang with allies vs those who aren't. Fine. It's a game. Just because your girlfriends toon died in-game, in a pvp arena or just because you got killed while chatting with a friend from from the opposing team doesn't make it okay to insult people terribly outside of the arena or outside of the game. Again, most are from my nationality again.
  
• Scamming new players. "If they bit into it, they deserve it." NO, NO, NO, NO! Even though this is just a game, No one deserves to be scammed. End of story.

I think something has to be done about this. I'm a veteran of all the legends games and I haven't seen things this bad til Arcane Legends.

Don't get me wrong. I've done my part in talking to them personally to say stop. I've reported a few but things are getting out of hand.

How can we be proud to wear our flag and represent our nation in a game like this? This makes me sick and frustrated to see it happen over and over again.

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised to see the IP addresses from this country banned permanently from logging onto the game. I will say, not all of us are bad BUT the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.

I know a lot may not like what I had to say. If so, please join the I hate Athenum Group. They are out there somewhere, they won't be hard to find.

One may say: "If you hate it so much and complain, why don't you quit?" I'm not quitting because something should be done about this. I'm not complaining either, I'm informing the community.

I hope STS can read this so appropriate measures can be taken.

Thank you.