I first saw the harrasment of Oleg's Offline play and some Online play customers when I joined the ubi.com on 15 April 2003 -- the era of RayBanJockey. This was during the Trim Wars after Oleg crippled his sim's trim controls to prevent slider trim bat turn exploits in anonymous public server gameplay. The Offline and many Online players asked for an option to use faster responding trim. There were a good number of hostile anonymous public server players running around the ubi forums accusing everybody who asked for this option of "wanting to cheat online with sliders."
Today's Mod Match started out much the same way -- recall the Mod panic started out with a number of anonymous public server players running around the ubizoo forums accusing modders of, naturally, cheating. There are differences, for example a number of Offline players concerned about the legality and morality of using tools that we assume were never authorized by Oleg.
One funny thing -- through stunningly effective forum satire, RayBanJockey made these hostile anonymous public server players look panicked and angry the likes we have never seen again until today. If there is one thing that makes an anti-mod anonymous public server player more panicked and angry than a server room full of mods, it would be...RayBanJockey. :coolsmileyface.rbj:
Last edited by LEXX; 12-30-2007 at 12:49 AM.
Reason: ~ too much of the past
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