Item Stack Resale Exploit

I do not know if that means that they are going to go after the credits the egregious offenders might have spent on items from unknowing bystanders or not. But it is concerning me that its a possibility. I have been listing my stuff at whatever the current asking price is for a few weeks now and my stuff has been selling rather quickly. I just hope that doesnt mean the exploiters were buying my stuff and that i might possibly lose the money I've made despite not doing anything wrong other than having piss poor luck if my stuff was bought by exploiters

Ok, that makes sense. I feel a little better. Although I can't figure out how stronghold use factors in.

You've got to look at it relatively really.

Someone exploits and generates a billion credits. This is known so the activity from there can be tracked.

Were they buying random things from random people on the GTN?
If so probably nothing will happen as it would be really hard to track down those credits ( which may in turn have been spent ) and return the items back to the legit sellers. The cheater gets banned, gets credits and everything they brought ( stuff it, take their whole inventory ) removed and then if they sent any purchases to anyone else that person in turn gets red flagged and investigated.

The only way I imagine you run the risk of any action or credit removal via GTN sales is if your activity was significantly above your logged normal activity.
That is if you've played long term and normally you hover around the 100 million mark but in the past 6 weeks you jumped up to 300 million+ then yes you will probably be looked at as to how that happened.

The thing is if you had access to all the data BW will have following trends etc. won't really be that difficult to see things that are out of the norm.

If all you do is sell things for the normal amount you sell them for and maybe you sold things a bit quicker as cheaters tried to launder their credits I think you'd be safe because I can guarantee a large portion of regular GTN sellers would have had cheaters buy their stuff over these 6 weeks ... it's looking at activities outside of the norm is where I imagine BW will focus.

So they've banned 500+ accounts already. Assuming they were subs that is almost a $100K profit loss a year, and that is not counting the cartel purchases those accounts might have made. Now they are getting ready to increase their dragnet, because they think a lot players are p!ssed off about the exploit and expecting them to take action. The devs lately have been trying to do these little things to make up for their general lack of communications in general, but we are really just painting them into a corner.

If complainers keep it up, all you will accomplish is innocent players getting banned, and canceling because they are pissed. You will also force Bioware to keep the punishments harsh which will help destroy their profits and ultimately hasten the death of this game. As if we don't have enough things to be mad about, as players today, why make things worse?

This is a common game practice, failing to do this action will get a lot a significant number more then 500 subscribers to call it quits.

This is a common game practice, failing to do this action will get a lot a significant number more then 500 subscribers to call it quits.

I do not know if that means that they are going to go after the credits the egregious offenders might have spent on items from unknowing bystanders or not. But it is concerning me that its a possibility. I have been listing my stuff at whatever the current asking price is for a few weeks now and my stuff has been selling rather quickly. I just hope that doesnt mean the exploiters were buying my stuff and that i might possibly lose the money I've made despite not doing anything wrong other than having piss poor luck if my stuff was bought by exploiters

I do not know if that means that they are going to go after the credits the egregious offenders might have spent on items from unknowing bystanders or not. But it is concerning me that its a possibility. I have been listing my stuff at whatever the current asking price is for a few weeks now and my stuff has been selling rather quickly. I just hope that doesnt mean the exploiters were buying my stuff and that i might possibly lose the money I've made despite not doing anything wrong other than having piss poor luck if my stuff was bought by exploiters

Why? because someone made lots of credits?