Item Stack Resale Exploit

I haven't been on today, but I did buy some gifts over the past week off the GTN, spent a lot of credits to buy them to rank up companions.

I didn't know about the exploit until it was posted yesterday on the forums, but I imagine some of those gifts were from it. I would be really annoyed if I lost items or credits over something I didn't know about and wasn't a part of.

Then you might as well ban them... if you actually remove all that stuff from a player, what are the odds they'll ever come back?

If something is obviously not working as intended, i.e. buying a stack of items and vendoring one of them back for the price of the stack, it's an exploit. Period. End of discussion.

Who cares? Good riddance to bad rubbish.

This.
Also, make sure you take all of their blood, and those who have, firstborns as well. Heck, second-borns, house, car and crush from high-school.
Get real...

Don't forget there teemo's

Yea and I will continue maybe something will happen.I am sick of unfair play or cheaters/hackers/exploiters,...etc. Don't want to mention the stupidity around of throwing with bad fixes,unsolved bugs,nerfs,unbalanced classes/PVP/PVE,....etc.
I pay just to play fair & have fun.

On short note, as a fair player that work hard for their stuff, I demand you,Bioware/ EA or who is still in charge there to bring proof of this major fix/your fix on showing it to the large community that you take the right choice.

P.S.: Stop using my words or try to be smart , because this is the one way trip I am going. Thank you!

Lets see if choices really do matter because as of right now, they sure haven't when it comes to SWTOR.

Unbelievable.

Well, now we know how/why the credit sellers were selling for $1 per million.

And it's been going on since 4.0 dropped. Wow.

Again: This will only cause the game to be more deserted than it has to be.

There is a difference between exploiting and stumbling into an exploit. The first one should be a bannable offense. The second one is a necessary step towards finding and fixing issues. It's necessary so that people can report what is actually happening.

I'm all for removing ill-gotten credits and loot, even removing the influence gained from companion gifts which were acquired by fraudulent activity. If you really participate in exploiting the bug, then of course you should lose everything you gained by using that exploit, including a 7-14 temporary suspension from the game. If your account is found in repeatable offense, perma ban it is. A slap on the wrist alone can help prevent someone from going into fraudulent areas.

But removing all gear/credits/influence from an account who is associated with the exploit isn't the answer. You found the bug and immediately reported it? Well, worst case scenario with the punishment above is that you lose the 10k credits and move on. But proposing to permanently suspend the account or removing all gear/credits/influence acquired in honesty? That'll only create paranoia and will result in everyone who discovers the exploit not actually reporting it. They'll be afraid to be permanently banned because they stumbled upon the exploit.

Every exploit that runs for more than a week is an entangled web of crazy. People like me didn't even know about an exploit happening. I only found out two days ago and was like Huh? Exploit? Then I found out that it involves companion gifts and had been going on for weeks.

Now, should my gear and credits be permanently removed for buying companion gifts during the past two weeks? No, it shouldn't. I earned every single credit fair and square. I earned every single crystal and piece of gear honestly. Punishing me for something another player did is ridiculous at best. It will only result in the community dwindling away. Nobody wants to play a game where overeager developers ban everyone who could passively and unknowingly participate in an exploit by using the GTN.

That's why this: "Just ban them all for eternity! Everyone who had anything to do with fraudulent items!" doesn't work. A seven day ban ist justifiable, removing ill gotten credits too. But removing stuff you earned in honest will only make people paranoid.