i like the idea of brickadia as being a spiritual successor to blockland since it's becoming such a ghost town but i prefer just stickin with old reliable. and like how other ppl mentioned it would be a lot nicer if they just eased up on the harsh punishments over innocuous crimes (words, questions). maybe that's a rarity in games in general more recently, but then that would be yet another selling point to stay with BL. Just let ppl behave like they wish in their own server and others can complain about those hosts in other servers and then everyone goes home happy.
i think they wish to 'avoid blockland' by having overarching moderation in everything which kinda makes no sense. it's fine that they moderate their discord how they'd like to and stuff (although it's silly that most resources relating to the game are stuck in that platform specifically) but because i did
this i am totally unable to join games even through direct connect, and people are also unable to join mine at all - if the really radical moderation continues while the game is paid then it just sorta won't have an audience. children, the primary group of people invested in lego, will do much worse than i've ever done to the game, and being permanently banned from multiplayer features because you did something rude or maybe even perceptibly construable as being rude on a multiplayer game is like, totally unheard of because not only does it totally kill player retention it also can make it actually Scary to make an investment into a game, even if you are totally inoffensive as a person, because there is no getting banned from a single server and learning from your mistake or getting bored and coming back when you're a better person, you're just banned. your money is gone. gmod doesn't have moderation this strict because it's sorta antithetical to their audience and the fact that you host servers yourself, but imagine if the time you went abusing darkrp server rules culminated into a permanent online ban for trolling so you were just disallowed from playing with your friends forever without the possibility of a refund
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that's just silly, but i guess they don't really care about optics at all so it isn't unexpected
