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I feel sorry for the players who were amused by this and will now likely get banned. I don't know when video games started to be like a bad elementary school wh
by Glyptodon 14y ago
I feel sorry for the players who were amused by this and will now likely get banned. I don't know when video games started to be like a bad elementary school where you get punished for experimenting or finding a loophole, but it seems like it's punishing one of the fundamental joys of games. Or at least one of the joys I remember being particularly rewarding as a child.
- gebe 14y agoI agree to some degree but MMO games in general are serious business and a special breed, especially when real currency is involved. It was most definitely against the ToS and I am sure that most of the players who participated in the exploit knew that. Also there were people who were using this bug to make real life money through the real money auction house, those people in particular can't be surprised that they were banned.
- Glyptodon 14y agoI don't know... wasn't there an article on here a few days ago celebrating how EVE online doesn't ban people for doing the exact same kinds of things?
- omegaham 14y agoI think the difference is that this completely broke the economy, while the exploit in EVE was much more fixable. All they had to do in EVE was take away some people's loot and they were good.
- chc 14y agoWell, when you're messing with a real-money economy, I think that's a pretty big tip-off that you'll be punished for experimenting or finding a loophole. The same thing happens with other games that deal in real money, such as the stock market. Also, AFAIK the only parties who exploited this bug were gold-farming bots. The computers won't mind, especially since their owners probably made bank off this.