Relentless wrote on Oct 9
th, 2013 at 10:19am:
There is not a whole lot written about known punishment/sloution of the most recent bug dubbed duplicating. I myself only found out about it yesterday via splash screen, So I have not read every possible article yet. Because DDO forums wolnt allow this kind of question (everything juicy gets blocked) and this site seems to have a more open mind about discussions I have a few questions/things to ponder.
Is this bug across all servers?
Have there been confirmed reports of the perma ban/temp ban/account roll back?
Will the larger servers be hit the hardest by bans because they have room to cut the fat?
Which servers are being hit the hardest in their economy?
Does anyone else think that in a dying game permbanning your players is really a wise move? Experienced players are leaving in droans to other better games as it stands. I doubt money will be spent making a new account. If you are going to start new, might as well start new on a diffrent game and bring your buds with you.
Do you think this bug will be one of the final nails to this games coffin?
Addressing all the points :
1) Yes, across all servers. Some were more obvious about it ( Sarlona and the stacks of 100 scales in ASAH ) others were less obvious ( Ghallanda with just more Orbs than usual ).
But by Saturday evening it was widespread across all the servers and almost all the guilds.
2) 3 Days and 14 Days Vacation so far from all the information that have been gathered here and there.
3) They can't hit too hard any server unless they want to cripple the game. And I'm quite sure that almost everybody tried the exploit once it was known in the open, so that would mean banning almost everybody. Maban comes to the mind for that, and the damage an auto-ban script gone wonky did to the game.
4) there's an economy ?
Sarlona is probably the one hit the hardest, with all those stacks of scales. But nothing say that there's not the same thing stored somewhere on the other servers... they just didn't show up on the AH/ASAH.
5) No, DDO is not really dying ( or it's been dying since 2006 ) It's a niche game where people come and go. Sure it's starting to show it's age, but overall it still above many other games when it comes to active combat and quests. ( even if the new quests from U19 really reminds me of NWO and other quests with a Boss and waves to trash you have to deal while beating up the boss, it's too obvious compared to older quests )
Older players are moving on for various reasons ( I have a friend that moved back to Civ Simply because he has a child and it's easier to drop Civ for an hour to play with his son than DDO, he will come back eventually )
And last :
Bigjunk wrote on Oct 9
th, 2013 at 11:19am:
Feather of Sun has done more damage than any exploit ever will.
This should be put into the rotating list of quotes.