Item Stack Resale Exploit

The perpetrators involved actually committed wire fraud, and copyright infringement. A felony. Eric, send a real message; jail time.

Even if you have to bring servers offline the community will understand it more than your lack of action.

Yes, and banning the numerous people who did this exploit will remove a large majority of whatever player base they have left.

I find it hard to believe that some vastly huge number of players were involved in the exploit.

Banning them would probably have little-to-no impact on the quantity of sub / F2P players in the game.

Wow, very crafty.

And here I'd have just implemented a hotfix three weeks ago.

As a QA tester... please stop assuming the "Fix Now" button is a thing.

Kthx

I agree that they have no excuse for not fixing this as soon as they were made aware of it, which was weeks ago (according to those that investigated it and wrote up tickets explaining how it was happening to Bioware). Does that mean that people should use exploits like this or get a "free pass"? No. Some action should be taken, and it is up to BIOWARE to decide what that action should be and make it happen.

Dear Toxic Community of Lynch Mobbers: You are not responsible for deciding what happens to people in this game. Quit telling Bioware what to do to people. First, I'm pretty sure they aren't reading it and second it isn't helpful to fan the flames of an indignant population that feel somehow they should be in charge.

I'm always amazed/disturbed by the posts in response to these threads (and again, shame on you Bioware that there are so many of these situations!). That doesn't justify doing something obviously against the rules, just because Bioware is their own worst enemy... but quit with the pitchfork mentality. It makes you all seem like a bunch of rabid dogs at a Trump campaign rally. Let them do their job, thank them for doing their job, but shut up and realize it isn't your decision to make what happens as a result of issues like this. Your judgement isn't necessary, isn't helpful, and really just makes the toxic community that is SWTOR all the more poisonous.