Item Stack Resale Exploit

I just don't have a lot of confidence in them tracking down people in a timely manner. They couldn't even get the GTN cleaned up of pages of stacks of 99 the day this was released, and tickets go unanswered for weeks - it isn't like dev/admin time is spare, or seemingly very well used.

The problem is very much the reaction time to these things. Thats where you solve them, not by punitive actions. That is a waste of time. And why I was so snarky on the first page of this thread, and throughout. The tone of the OP was that they'd been crafty in laying low and then struck.

When it took weeks. On a bug that was all over the net, easily reproducible (no intermittent nightmares here), where the cause was very very obvious to isolate.

The first evidence this team gets of a dupe ought to mean a late night and many hands on deck. The traffic in Austin is terrible anyway, it won't hurt to keep the team late a day. What, is everyone telecommuting? Or are the content developers that walled from administrators?

Whatever it is is broken if either 1. No one with decision making power in that office groks that dupes are the number 1 priority, of the whole team, until it is fixed...or 2. No one has the ability or resources to matter in that situation.

What happens to offenders is meaningless to me, at least. It is the seemingly sad state of that office.

I see reading and comprehension isn't your strong suit...so let me summarize what I actually DID say...

Customers = $ for Bioware Austin
Banning customers = less $ for Bioware Austin

Bioware has set this precedent plenty of times already...they don't care if you get scammed on the GTN, ninja looted in an Ops, they didn't care that you got the best chest in-game last year, that $ and "stuff" is all in-game fake stuff. The only time they seem to get "serious" about exploits or any issue, is when it impacts their actual revenue. Nothing else is real.

If you think they'll accept less REAL $ to punish someone for making fake in-game $, I think you're nuts.

Then again my main concern is for the quality of this game, not my own sense of justice.

I can only reiterate, if you discover an exploit, do not use it. Report it to the team immediately. You can do so via an in-game /bug or feel free to PM myself or Tait about it on the forums. Please, do not post about it publicly.

-eric

Indeed. I also went from defending the team and the game very strongly, for years off and on...from very early beta up through the companion nerf. And then in three weeks they've done so many things that its sadly funny.

Still love the game. Really respect what the early team did and the ability of the writers, the talent of a lot of the voice acting, the overall aesthetic. So many good things to say.

The lead designer, Michael whatsit used to be a QA guy. Used to hunt down exploits for Blizzard. I can't imagine he is the problem. But someone is.

I seriously doubt that.

I see reading and comprehension isn't your strong suit...so let me summarize what I actually DID say...

Customers = $ for Bioware Austin
Banning customers = less $ for Bioware Austin

Bioware has set this precedent plenty of times already...they don't care if you get scammed on the GTN, ninja looted in an Ops, they didn't care that you got the best chest in-game last year, that $ and "stuff" is all in-game fake stuff. The only time they seem to get "serious" about exploits or any issue, is when it impacts their actual revenue. Nothing else is real.

If you think they'll accept less REAL $ to punish someone for making fake in-game $, I think you're nuts.

Reminds me of folks that think the guys at my masons lodge are vampire illuminati when they can barely agree on how to cook pancakes...much less how to fix the leaking roof. I blame netflix

You're not wrong...ideally, you're correct...but as DawnAskham points out above, that's not how the real world works. Profit comes before principle.

I didn't/don't cheat. I've never been banned. I'm just being realistic.