Comment Re:Unexpected boon (Score 1) 233
"No monthly fee" is hardly a requirement for aggressive banning policies, though. Microsoft has been banning (paying) users from Xbox Live for eons for inconsiderate gamertags, behaviour etc., and that kind of ban is much more severe since it means no more online gaming EVER on that particular CONSOLE (not just user account). Note also that while it's "free to play" they still have to turn profit from their game, and right now they're actively turning customers away - even many of those dicks could be willing to purchase additional content. Microsoft can afford to be aggressive about this since it's running a whole platform with a dictatorship, but a free-to-play game could be quite a different case. I don't think Arenanet could simply replace micropayments with advertising.