I am just venting.

I already sent PM to one of the mods and I am waiting for for result of her investigation

I didnt have any problems (except of zillion bugs in their games) with Paradox untill today - I didnt even had any infraction on their forum (I was there for almost 18 months and had 1400+ posts there - all were deleted when I was banned).

Normally I'd agree. Hell, I still mostly agree now. (Though I still do intend to get HoI3 at some point and find/make a balance/fix mod) But banning him because he pointed out a problem with the game that remains despite an expansion? That's a tad bit below the moral belt. (Such as exists on the int0rwebz.)

In a similar scenario, I was criticizing EA/Bioware on their "Social Site"; Bam. Without warning, my account was permanently suspended and everything I had bought from EA (all DLC, etc) was unavailable.

This is what Steamers, No-LAN proponents and "new age" gamers are signing on to.

Ehhhhhh....

I'm a huge fan of Paradox, and their forums.  I'm on those regularly, and I've never seen ANYONE banned for no reason.  They do have some basic rules for each subforum, and you may have broken one of those.  Here are the rules for the HoI3 boards:

Well it took less than half a day here are the rules you must follow

NOTE: There will not be any gulags or deathcamps (including POW camps) to build in Hearts of Iron3, nor will there be the ability to simulate the Holocaust or systematic purges, so I ask you not to discuss these topics as they are not related to this game. Thank You. Threads bringing up will be closed without discussion.

NOTE: Strategic bombing in HoI3 will be abstracted and not allow you to terror bomb civilians specifically. Chemical weapons will also not be included in the game. Any threads that complain about this issue will be closed without discussion.

NOTE: There will not be any swastikas in the game, because it IS illegal to show them in Germany and various other countries. Same goes for other Nazi symbols (e.g. related to the SS) or Nazi propaganda material, including songs etc. Any links posted to a mod which includes a Swastika or other illegal Nazi symbols will be deleted. Any threads that complain about this issue will be closed.

NOTE: Threads on Millitary Statistics are not be started. We really don't care that you as a community can not discuss this like adults.

Failure to follows these rules will result in bans.
 

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 You will at all times respect and refrain from harassing and/or personally attacking other users or Paradox staff.

You will respect the rights of other users to have their own opinions.

You will not use expressions that are considered foul, vulgar, sexually harassing, racially offensive or in any way discriminatory. These expressions include, but are not limited to, ethnic slurs, hate speech and religious epithets. Whether an expression fits under this definition will be determined by Paradox staff at the time.

You will not make posts that are inflammatory with the perceived intent to rile people up (i.e. "trolling" and "flaming" are prohibited).

You will only post messages that are within the particular forum’s scope or topic.

 

Which moderator banned you?  They don't ban people for bug reports unless you break these rules.

Its too bad that paradox has turned to this.  Surprising that a complaint about bugs got a ban.  I've posted lots of complaints about the lack of content in Majesty 2 and have yet to be banned there.  Of course i have stopped posting there  a couple of months ago anyway

Sorry to interrupt the bash-fest, but someone has to play the Devil's Advocate here.  I've done a lot of digging in Google's cache, and I've found multiple points where you broke their rules.  The threads were often locked and you were told exactly why, and then you said the same thing in another thread.  Here's an example:

Rebel44:

"I am also disapointed by fact that HoI3 is still broken 9 months after relese and to fix some of those absurd bugs, Paradox want me to pay another 20€ for SF.

Paradox made many promises before release of HoI3 and I am not happy with results. Also when many of us asked for casualty stats, our threads were locked without proper reason (there was no flaming, no arguments etc.) which should be standart feature for such game."

This is what the rules say, and what the moderators repeated when they locked threads:

"NOTE: Threads on Millitary Statistics are not be started. We really don't care that you as a community can not discuss this like adults."

Cached version of another such thread can be found here. I'm not sure if that link works though.

And... Once again.

I love this game. But I also think that game shouldnt have gamebreaking bugs before you start charging for expansions (Yes, I am spoiled by Valve).

I will buy SF as soon as its released at Steam. I am also willing to buy future expansions and games from Paradox, but it need to be less buggy and combat simulation need to be more reallistic (which would currently affect performance, but if HoI3 supported multicore CPUs it wouldnt be problem IMO).

Oh and I (and many others) would like to have casualty stats

Each time you bring up casualty stats, the moderators come along and tell you to NOT DO IT.  That is against their rules.  And then you do it again. Please stop acting like the moderators are going on some "power trip."  Frankly, I find it offensive.

Further,  you aren't always as nice as you would have us think.  There was a point in time (I can't get the quote because I've opened up enough caches now that google thinks I'm a bot) where you explicitly told somebody to "STFU" because you disagreed with them.

For talk about Stats I didnt even recieve infraction. We (who discussed those stats) just recieved PM not to post it again.

Did you continue to discuss them?

no. We continued our discussion via Skype.

Or realize their pathetic Jackasses and have nothing to do with the fools... Clearly their massive ego is made of glass.

Hmm. Well then. Burn the witch and all that. Tally-ho.