Kimberlite wrote on Oct 11
th, 2013 at 5:37pm:
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The risk:reward ratio was worthwhile ...
The main problem with the risk:reward ratio was that in the past nearly nothing happened with peoples who used an exploit. So the risk was near zero.
At least from the point of view of someone who is playing DDO for some years now.
That's probably the main reason why so many people didn't think about any punishment. Compared with the problems that Turbine is often not able to compensate for lost items.
I know several people know for example who lost their complete crafting mats bag in the shared bank around one year ago. And if you are running shroud with several toons and gather them in the shared bank this hurts very much, but Turbine wasn't able restore that.
And there are regularly people complaining that Turbine can't do shit to give back lost items or compensate for it.
Another question... someone mentioned to get a 7 day ban for using this exploit and now tolera says everyone would get at least 14 days ban... Did they change mind after banning the first exploiters because they got mad that so many people used this exploit?
Sounds strange, especially when you think about the mistakes of Turbine that lead to this massive exploit usage.
(no appropriate punishments in the past + too slow reaction to the fact that this exploit went public and was spreading very fast)
*conspiracy theory* Maybe they wanted to make sure marbar isn't lagging that mucht his year *conspiracy theory end*
But I like that Turbine finally is doing something and showing that they are able to do something. The lack of action with the last exploits and inability to give otherwise lost items back gave the impression that Turbine has no logging running at all or doesn't care. (just leaves the impression that turbine doesn't care that much about compensating lost items :S)
But let's see how this banhammer period is going to end and I really hope they are tellung how many accounts were using this exploit.
And I am very sure they are not deleting all items, probably only all items which got duped so that no stack of these are left. Taking away all items would cause major legal problems because of store bought items and real money spend. At least in a country with reasonable laws.