Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33005074-20180823234926

Hi, apology if the topic is already here but there is really heated discussion on icomming ban wave on JP.

I don't want to start such heated discussion here on Wikia but few things are bothering me so i would like to share it, Another apologize if something will be unclear or event total BS (try not to throw stones at me).

Let me put some ideas here. I will start from last to first (last - I expect it to be the lowest reasonm for ban, first - top reason to ban), please also note that the message is on JP (unless I missed something on Global), also note that Namco finished counting of 3rd year anniversary tickets so each player will receive:

- using emulators, rooted devices or switching between devices (in same geographical area): I am not entirely sure but Namco should not able to differentitate beween switching the devices in same geographical area not to mention that people are chanign their phonse or tablets really often (I am just guessing that it could somewhere between once  or twice in two years). As for rooting devices - that might be quite interesting however there are phones that comes rooted directly from the factory so while having root access might be against Nmco TOS it might fire back at Namco really hard. The same goes for emulators - many youtubers (especially the whales) use Nox or other emulators (I can't remember the name) and Namco would have more than enough time to react to these youtubers. Sp banning here is very unlikely (it would affect quite a lot of youtubers).

- switching geographical locations once in 12 months or more: I cannot speak for Apple but Google allows you to change your home country once in a year (however I think that there is some mechanism to make it impossible to change in every year) - why I am mentioning this? It is beacause you might used once or twice stone resselers. However there are occasions when you might want to change your home country for one year and than swithc it back (for example Erasmus). So banning here is also improbable (imagine that you are studying and your going to different country on Erasmus if you get my idea, the same might fgo for work - business trip or something similar).

- modding single player stuff (quests, SBR, EZA etc.): to tell the truth I saw quite a lot of youtube videos of some players who modded for example Universe Survival Saga event to get Kachi Kachin (sorry if I mispelled it), SBR (to get Kid Gohan) etc,, these people are still playing the game (I checked these channels two days ago), Namco could easily ban them but they did not. So while there is possibility to ban players on modding single player I am not eniterly sure about it but I will infrom you as soon as I get banned on my JP account :D (my main is global and I only use JP account to see what has changed but I could never ever push myself to do all the stuff again for the third time); While there is a medium chance to be banned I am hesitant to accept this because from what I observed on JP there are dozens of players who are modding and if Namco would went this far it would harm Dokkan Battle very very bad (from business model - it would be basically worst case scenario which could even lead to Dokkan Battle end, especially now - few days before the 250M download celebration).

- modding WT: very high chnace of ban for everyon (but everyone should know that modding PVP stuff is really bad in Namco eyes). The interseting fact here is that it is quite late after last JP WT (usulaly people are banned right after rewards distribution, however there might be reason behind this to ban this late). Howeever I am not 100% sure that the updated ban message is targetting WT alone.

- There is something in my mind that connects the upcomming banner with tccket distribution, maybe stupid idea but it has the highest probability of the new ban wave: Namco finished counting the tickets and day or two they released updated ban message. Why? My idea is that for every country there is fixed price for DS and  Let's that 50 DS will cost 50USD (I don't know how much it cost in USA so please take it as an example). Let's say that according the spent stones player should get 100 tickets. Now for ease of calculation I will not count DS from stories, events and similar stuff. also not count discounted stones. I will count only DS bought in game. The rate for DS to ticket exchange is 5DS=1 ticket. so 100 tickets equals 500 DS. That would be 2500 USD. However Namco will find out that user whou should spend 2500 USD spent let's saz 1000 USD. So this will translate to Namco that the user is using either DS re-sellers or somehow duped the stones. In both cases Namco will have 100% proof tha user violated TOS plus this violation "harmed" Namco because instead of 2500 USD Namco get "only" 1000 USD. This is really huge reason to ban the player. However it has two big flaws: many yutubers are using 3rd party sellers and none of them was banned. Second flaw is almost similar - if Namco is really going to target those who are using the 3rd party sellers than they will ban the youtubers for sure however this would harm Namco really lot. Because youtubers are not only putting hundreds of dollars, euros etc. into Namco and also they are advertising the game (for free) so Namco would loose in long run more money.

So to sum-up: the ban wave is affecting curently only JP. I want to beleive that it is targeting the WT cheaters. If there is something more behind it I will update this post.

Also congratulations to everyone who was able to read this post and not to fall asleep. Again if my ideas are stupid I deeply apologize. 