[woodjer]

I'm strictly exhibition and franchise mode. I don't play the stubs mode(s?) at all so I've got no horse in this race. I'm sure that there were some people that were innocently banned and I hope they get everything squared away. I guess there are just a few points that I feel the need to respond to:

- Yes, the existence of the glitch was SDS' fault...but it's also the user's fault when they take advantage of it. By the logic of some posts, if the theft-prevention scanners go down at Best Buy and nobody is at the door, I can walk out with anything in the store and they shouldn't arrest me. I mean, it's not my responsibility to handle those things, is it?

- Sure, it's not my job to tell anyone about the situation above either but I do believe that there is a moral obligation to do so, if I'm aware of it. What's funny is that the "it's not my job to tell them about it" argument only seems to come up when the glitch means getting something for free that would otherwise cost money. If the glitch could be used to give some users 4 outs in an inning, the same people to use that argument would likely be filling up bug reports left and right...even though it's not their job.

- oski, you mentioned clearing transactions quickly with both a mouse click and pressing enter. Depending on the details behind this glitch, that may have caused it, especially if you're clicking a Cancel button and then pressing enter activates it again. That's pure speculation on my part but, whether you realized what was happening or not, that may be the issue right there. Then again, I'm no expert in how this stuff occurs normally.

- As for keeping the glitch a secret, we have little to no information about how long it existed. Since launch? Yeah, it probably would have spread more than what the ban numbers indicate. Was it a window of a few hours? Much less likely...and maybe it did spread very quickly to get to those numbers.

For oski, Jason, and anyone else that believes they were incorrectly banned, I truly hope that things get resolved quickly and justly. I feel for you though because, if you benefited from the exploit but didn't do so intentionally, that will be VERY difficult to prove and, like it or not, your purchase of a software license (which is really what "buying a game" is now) doesn't entitle you to any sort of due process.