I'm not gonna make a comment as to the morality of doing this, but rather, you math (by which I mean you mass guess work). There are so many assumptions that you make in your work its laughable. I mean I know you're trying to prove a point and all using over exaggerations. However, I doubt some people would recognize this for the over exaggerations they most assuredly are. For example: You do understand that in your post you claim that bungie is fine doing mass bannings, but in your example it is pointed out that they merely did "credit resets" right? What are they gonna do? Do insane research to look at every character for every account, look at every time they did the crota part, separate out the gear earned when 1 person in their fire team left at a precise moment and then take all those drops away? Or even better, ban all the players closely tied to a group the had someone leave? I would be surprised to find out that Bungie has the power to see that someone got to the crota part, their group said "let's cheese" 1 person said "no I'm leaving cause I don't wanna" and then they beat it 5 min later. I would bet they just see "yup, he was in the fire team, ban him" Really? They don't care THAT much. Also, I love how you assume that everyone's connections, speeds, and living situations are all the same. Example: some Ethernet cords or routers may not be up to par, some people have differing internet speeds (I know I know, I was shocked too), some people have other family members in the house that all the sudden suck up all the internet causing you to lose connectivity. Also, you aren't taking weather or local factors into consideration, even internet throttling is some countries. There was a underground cord problem with our service provider that caused our whole block to sporadically lose connection for a couple months once. I'm not saying all these things are common occurrences for everyone, but they sure as heck aren't as marginal as you think. Surely they don't count for only 10% of connectivity loss, and DEFINITELY not for only 2%. And that's not even including when xbox/PS networks go down (which is common if you've been awake at all the last couple months). TL;DR - If you're gonna try to use math and logic to prove a point, at least pretend you took into account the hundreds of different variables. And DEFINITELY don't make silly assumptions that imply everyone (or even most) play with ideal conditions all the time