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Item Stack Resale Exploit

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MeNaCe-NZ
12.13.2015 , 03:41 PM | #651
Quote: Originally Posted by TX_Angel View Post
Fair enough, next time you speed 1 mile over the speed limit, lets just break your legs and burn your house down, fair enough?
If that was actually a possible punishment you face from doing it would you speed 1 mile over the limit?

Unlike the real world where we have set consequences for breaching of set rules this is BW's world and they can act anyway they like against those that cheat.

I personally am 100% behind their wholesale removal of anything that could be connected to the exploit to shown laundered accounts or cheating accounts because it saves them wasting time trying to sort out which items are legit or not ... easier just to say too bad, you cheated, we'll remove it all and move on to looking at the next account.

There is no reason for them to waste anytime trying to protect cheaters from using items that may or may not have been legit.

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MeNaCe-NZ
12.13.2015 , 03:44 PM | #652
Quote: Originally Posted by TX_Angel View Post
You need to go back and read it again...

More than 500 were permabanned... Thousands and thousands got temp bans...

So by your logic, anyone who cheats even $1 dollar on their taxes should have everything they own taken away, kicked to the street naked, and have the scarlet letter branded on their forehead?
Heh I love how you keep relating a fictional world that Bioware completely controls with real world set consequences.

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branmakmuffin
12.13.2015 , 03:50 PM | #653
Quote: Originally Posted by TX_Angel View Post
You need to go back and read it again...

More than 500 were permabanned... Thousands and thousands got temp bans...
Where do you get this info? Wait, I know, you're just making it all up.

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So by your logic, anyone who cheats even $1 dollar on their taxes should have everything they own taken away, kicked to the street naked, and have the scarlet letter branded on their forehead?
As noted, taxes != SWTOR. Advance the inapt internet analogy counter by 1.

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DawnAskham
12.13.2015 , 03:54 PM | #654
Quote: Originally Posted by Sith-Viscera View Post
When a Hunter goes out and bags that beautiful 8 or 9 point buck and field dresses it. As he does, so he thinks about the head being mounted on his wall above his fire place. As he thinks about getting that 300 lbs carcass processed and how much meat that will be when its all said and done.

He foolishly doesn't see the Game Warden about 45 feet away watching with his hand cuffs out. As he thinks how this dumb SOB is going to loose his Hunting gear. His Hunting licensed, as well his Truck he came into those woods in. Plus thousands of dollars in fines. And after all that depending on the state one lives, as well as The Game and Wildlife Poaching laws & Regulations of that state, can even take your house. Oh yeah and you can still get jail time on top of all that.

Harsh punishment yes. But after decades of Pouching and the normal slap on the wrist doesn't seem to stop it from happening, then a more server action is needed and is well warranted.

People have no one else to blame for something like, Haunting out of season. Knowing the penalties and what can happen to them. That goes with ANYTHING IN LIFE. For every action there is a opposite re-action. Especially when one is doing WRONG!

This goes for People exploiting a game and taking gain from, said exploitation.
If people get banned from this, THEY HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME BUT THEM SELVES!

Take Care and Be Well.
Sadly your analogy fails.

Had that warden been Bioware, they would have stood there watching poachers come and go for weeks without action, all the while ignoring reports from honest hunters about the poaching problem, and only would have put down the donuts and taken action after a local TV station ran a spot on the 11 o'clock news about the all the poaching going on.

Should exploiters have all ill-gotten items removed? Yes.

Should we expect our 'warden' to do a better job preventing 'poaching' in the first place? Yes.

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Neglience
12.13.2015 , 03:56 PM | #655
I bet those guys who want a lax punishment over the exploit are affected by the punishments somehow and are trying now to bring things in a better perspective for themselfs.

Like that darkside guy who indirectly admitted he was punished,
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XiamaraSimi
12.13.2015 , 04:02 PM | #656
Quote: Originally Posted by Neglience View Post
I bet those guys who want a lax punishment over the exploit are affected by the punishments somehow and are trying now to bring things in a better perspective for themselfs.

Like that darkside guy who indirectly admitted he was punished,
Thats what you cant help thinking after a while.

"No no Bioware, dont be harsh, "my brother" only exploited a little... please dont take "my brothers" stuff!"

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Cakellene
12.13.2015 , 04:06 PM | #657
Quote: Originally Posted by Makillda View Post
Gotta quote this twice.

Neither will trying to sell a SP RPG as an MMO...
It worked for 4 years though.
What part of Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn don't you understand?

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TX_Angel
12.13.2015 , 04:22 PM | #658
Quote: Originally Posted by MeNaCe-NZ View Post
Yes, that is fair punishment. Don't cheat - a great msg to send.
Except, it doesn't work...

The "tough on crime" thing really, really doesn't work. It "feels" good, but it actually is ineffective.
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branmakmuffin
12.13.2015 , 04:23 PM | #659
Quote: Originally Posted by TX_Angel View Post
Except, it doesn't work...

The "tough on crime" thing really, really doesn't work. It "feels" good, but it actually is ineffective.
Right, but cheating in a computer game is nothing close to a "crime."

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TX_Angel
12.13.2015 , 04:24 PM | #660
Quote: Originally Posted by MeNaCe-NZ View Post
Heh I love how you keep relating a fictional world that Bioware completely controls with real world set consequences.
So I don't have to keep paying for my sub, and I get to keep my sub benefits?

This "fictional world" you keep referring to has a real connection to the real world. It is called money, the real kind, the sort that pays for food, shelter, and office rent for BW.

But sure, burn it all down, who cares, it is only all their jobs and their career, what difference does it make if the game closes tomorrow, right?

Take two steps back and consider that for a min.
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