Well we'll see as the Mimics might be ban from our tournament this February.
It's stupid to even bring this up as an issue. As if it really matters if mimics are banned in February 4th tourney? No one is going to attempt to master every character in the game in less than 4 days, and then waste $20 entering the tourney just to use a mimic.
Dampierre is only banned until everyone can download him. I don't agree with the Devil Jin ban however. The reason for his banning is pretty weak. When we were playing SC2 in the arcades and then console, no one was banned, which included Charades (mimic). What's up with 'em bans?
The Devil Jin ban makes sense because there is no character available to represent him, since is his only available in Create-a-Soul. However, if the community can just decide on a standard CaS template such as default body size, male, samurai pre-set parts etc, then I don't see how that would be a problem.
There is a whole debate about it
here.
And in SC2 there was indeed an unwarranted ban: Necrid. It was never proven that Necrid was broken or more overpowered than any of the other top tiers in the game, the reason was simply "because fuck Necrid". Then again back then there was a community leader who dictated the rules, WCMaxi, who was a Namco employee and everyone listened to him, even though he was a bit of a douche.
Right now we have another Namco employee in the community, FilthyRich, who's title is "Namco community manager". Although that seems to be a fake title now since he isn't managing anything, he just goes around promoting the game. He's not standing up to the plate as a Namco rep in regards to giving us a standard ruleset so that our community doesn't get divided into what should and shouldn't be allowed.
Instead we have elitist 8wr moderators who feel they need to be the community leaders simply because of their "status" on the forum. Now I wouldn't mind so much if it weren't for the fact that some of them come off as elitist dicks to new and casual players (not gonna name names, but I've received and seen plenty of complaints regarding this).
What this community needs is a leader who is a Namco rep, is not an elitist dick, and is someone people will respect and look up to.
If Namco is God, we need a prophet to deliver their commandments.
Anyways that's my rant for the day.