Item Stack Resale Exploit

Yea, the sad thing is that the economy is already ruined, unless they can really claw back most of it. I suspect they'll get some of it, but not enough to change the economy.

It was, what, 6 weeks? That is nuts to leave it in that long.

It will be interesting to watch the credit sellers and see how long it takes for their prices to rise. I saw several over the weekend spaming general chat for 1 million for $1, which is nuts, why even bother?

I'm starting to think 90%, or more of the coders are contractors rather than full time staff. Or else there is a gatekeeper project manager who is buddies with a VP and has the general manager/project lead made irrelevant. Some kind of similar mess that has that office needing a real shakeup in a serious way.

What else would explain a situation where a dupe bug, absolutely and obviously the most toxic sort of bug outside of an outright login bug to an MMO hang around for weeks and not hotfixed after a late, caffeinated night? Rather than wait for a weekly update?

I think there should be digital stocks on fleet and we should be able to throw blumfruit at exploiters.

Glad I didnt sell back any of the companion gifts I purchased. Luckily the stacks I bought I burned up right away on my comps. Never even noticed the bug.

Only if they fire whoever is responsible for managing the economy of the game and / or whoever made the decision not to bother plugging this exploit for going on two months.

And given the information that was shared which states the exploit was with buying and reselling certain items from vendors, they could have simply removed those items or NPCs weeks ago, that they did not demonstrates that Bioware is negligent and inept at managing the game.

Lastly, the stealth exploiters (those not stupid enough to post crap on the GTN and who sold the exploited items to vendors for credits) have already driven the value of credits into the ground using this exploit for weeks to generate untold amounts of credits, so much that the price for credits by the spammers has fallen hard.

These people for sure used methods to keep from being tied to their real accounts and / or used the exploit to sell credits for RL cash through RMT brokers, and could care less about having whatever throw away accounts they used suspended or banned.

But yes, lets go after the really stupid players who heard about the exploit last week and used it to gain a bunch of gifts to raise influence on their main account - that will really fix the problems this exploit has caused to the game's economy, and show Bioware is serious about exploits.

(evil Sith voice on)
Show no mercy!
(evil Sith voice off)

Very happy to see this. I can't think of many things more pathetic than cheating at a video game. I hope you teach the scumbags who thought they could get away with this (and screw the rest of us) a lesson.

Umm, they didn't... This has been going on for 6 weeks, since 4.0 launched...

How in the world can a MMO developer allow an item dup exploit to exist for SIX WEEKS?

I'm happy to see exploiters getting what's coming to them. I don't care what game I am playing, the folks that cheat and exploit things just ruins things for all.

The reason the price of the Gold sellers has dropped is because people who have been participating in this exploit have been SELLING credits to the Gold sellers for real life cash.
Gold sellers have more credits than they know what to do with.

I haven't played in weeks and I'm starting to suspect that it was my rat instincts telling me to get the hell out of here while the getting was good.

Good lord, BW. The economy's in the toilet thanks to billions upon billions of extra credits dumped into the system, progression raiders are giving the game the finger and taking off thanks to the 'restructured' NiM loot system and then there's the existing lack of end-game content that isn't recycled.

What the 'hell' is going on over there?