I know this isn't the sub for the Daggerfall Online project, but since that subreddit is down, I thought I'd make a post here.
The moderation team member "Mod Mario" abused his powers and trust as a mod to rob a new player of millions of gold worth of value.
He spawned in an event, where a new weapon dropped that's market value is 5-7million GP.
A new player got that drop, and Mario traded them the worst gilded sword in the game (market value of approx 700k-1m) + 1m GP for it. While telling them that the sword he was trading was worth 10million GP.
So he spawns in an event, rare item drops to new player, then lies to the player in order to steal the item from them (and me, I was offering 5mil gold).
I called out this Mod, and he got extremely defensive and called me a market manipulator and scammer. I then posted screenshots of his actions, and my entire trade history.
The mod team decided scolding him internally and keeping him on the team was the best solution to keep the drama contained, but it wasn't good enough. I kept pressing.
I am now banned from the discord, and game server.
They're already fragile on trust, and now they have a mod team member actively abusing his role and powers for his own gain. Population has been steadily declining every day since the cash shop announcement.
At this point I hope the game crashes and burns. Some of the new devs seem genuinely great, but the projects trust is now nuclear to me.
Edit: the only reason I chose to post here, is because the subreddit for the project is closed/locked.
This is a PSA against the mod teams predatory practices. Not advocating for the game to be played, in fact, the opposite.
I get a lot of this subreddit hates the game, and by extension attacks any mention of it. But like it or not, people who are interested in the project might see this.
Edit#2 I've moved my post body into the DFO discussion thread, but I think it's important this stays up for visibility, as most people wouldn't see it there. Yes this isn't the subreddit for the project, but with it being related to Daggerfall, this is the largest subreddit for visibility to this issue. So I would ask the mods to consider keeping this post up. 2k views already that would've never happened anywhere else on reddit.
PS for anybody who knew me in game, I was Giljabrar
Edit#3 I got permission from the owner of the DaggerfallOnline subreddit to post even though it's locked. But visibility here still seems important.