Do people take this game too seriously?
Well, allow me to ask you, do people take Battlegrounds 2 seriously, or LoL when there is $1 million to win, or when x y z or a b c leads to u v w?
People take this game seriously because it adds a sense of roleplay into the game, it turns the otherwise RPG element of warband into a heightened sense of RolePlayingGame, people enjoy it and that is why they play it as they do. Hell it gets boring playing any game on your own after a while, it is fun to play with others, to have structure and even to win when things get competitive.
Now onto the admin part:
You have contradicted yourself within your first two posts.
Firstly it's OTT if the admin bans someone for breaking the rules and ruins your fun, and then it's ok if they do it multiple times, then where do we draw the line? After the 10th? 20th? 100th? We can debate this all day, rules are in place to make sure everyone can enjoy the game without people jumping in server and ruining it for others which then leads to a spiral of decline of population.
Allow me to assure you that all admins act on what they see, if someone is mass teamkilling then he will be banned for it, admins also act with discretion so if something is meant to insult someon in a 'homophobic slur' then it will be acted on, if someone merely stated 'that was gay' i have yet to see anyone banned for that. Furthermore admins will not ban someone for a first offence, if it continues to go into gross abuse then yes they will be banned for it - yet this is only on certain things, not everything.
I can quite proudly say this admin team is the best i have worked with, i have admined on other games, mods, forums, etc and i have yet to see a group of admins that actually works together, gets on and does not abuse their power. In my time as EU Senior Admin i haven't received a single complaint about an admin due to abuse, mis-judgement, or breaking the rules themselves.
Von_Bismarck - that may be true about freedom of speech yet does freedom of speech include racism and homophobic slurs? Are you allowed to go into a public place and start abusing people with racial slurs or homophobic slurs. If you were being racist then you can be arrested, if you are homophobic and are harassing people then you can be fired from your work place and in extreme cases even arrested. So if someone is being arrested for 'freedom of speech' then is it truly freedom of speech? Furthermore the internet is one of the hardest things to police and govern for there are countless ways to get around things. The FSE privately fund the servers so everyone can play on them, so of course there will be rules to follow.
And now i come to my favourite part:
Those admins have no great power in real life so they hold on to it as best they can. Some might be a little young, I heard one admin is only 16. But power, even virtually, can have some effects on people. Many will start to take even a virtual volunteer job as a duty which they must do or else the world will collapse. Some might be sadistic and just like to punish for no other reason than to put themselves in a greater position simply in their own mind. Nothing will change them, but I will say yes people take this game much too seriously. For some people this game has become their life in a way, as with all games. So one can expect some disturbed people. like me.
Our admins are not power hungry - simple as that. Nor do they let any regimental, personal, pharmaceutical, or any other influences they may have affect their decisions. If this was the case then they would be removed from admins imple as that. Moreover stating that here is the only power these people have is complete nosense. As you do not know these admins IRL then you cannot comment about their RL, if you did you would not be making sure a petty remark.
Admins are allowed to permanently ban (log ban) players from the servers in extreme circumstances, most rule breakings will land you with a > warn, slay, or a temp ban and it rarely ever goes further than that. Admins are in place to make sure the server continues to run without their being people to ruin the fun for others, hence why admins are there to make sure that the server is maintained to a high degree.
I hope this has cleared some things up, if you want any more information you can PM me or post here, either way i will continue to ask answer any questions
Regards
Crusader
EU Senior Admin