The creature-collecting MMO Temtem was a bit rough at the start of its Early Access run, but quickly picked things up and created something "even better than Pokémon." It's cute, it's colorful, and the Crema development team has responded by focusing on player communication.

Earlier today, however, the studio also made it clear that, despite its good nature, it will not tolerate nonsense:

What was particularly striking about this announcement was the declaration that no appeals would be accepted. A few hours later, the studio made its feelings about Cheetah even clearer.

"The team spent the entire morning checking banned accounts and accounts of players who said 'I didn't do anything illegal.' We rechecked over 100 accounts. Every single one of them was a legitimate ban," the studio tweeted. 'Never trust cheaters. They just want to know more information about the ban so they can avoid a ban the next time they use a cheat. They will tell all kinds of lies to get more information and to get the minimum possible chance of getting the ban lifted."

Shortly thereafter, however, Crema changed course and said it would review appeals. However, the process will be entirely manual, indicating that it is not prepared to make concessions in protecting the studio's process in order to redress accused wrongdoers.

"Initially, we were hesitant to institute a ban appeal process because hackers often use it as a way to get more information to circumvent our anti-cheat," a Crema representative told Polygon. "We only ban players caught using cheats to exploit the game. We don't ban people for encountering bugs. It's very easy to tell the difference."

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