Bigjunk wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 9:08pm:


Screenshot of a guild activity log, witnesses who saw toons on the banned (14 day banned account) logged in and on their guild ship and verification that the account owner is unable to log in.

Wow, if they have to log in to the account to destroy the duped items... I probably don't want to know how they are doing their investigations...

But if you look at several posts in this thread one could come to the conclusion that Turbine is busy banning and investigating until chrismas.
Not sure if I should laugh or cry because of that...

Hope this helps to show them that they need to change their way how to deal with exloits. Even on weekends there need to be people availible who can make decisions like shutting down the server. Yeah some people might get mad because they can't play because of some exploiters but I am pretty sure the financial loss of some days downtime is less then the financial loss which is caused by such mass investigations, at least if you close the server fast enough when such exploits are becoming public.

second thing is, when someone logs into account, it gives him access to ddo store and CC info most likely. how can one be sure this wont be abused by GM peon?

NOTdarth wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 8:03am:


And mail the ill-gotten goods to another account on the server?

NOTdarth wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 8:03am:


ABF, you have jumped to an obvious conclusion that the exploit caused DDO store sales to skyrocket on certain items.

According to some on this board, unless you can provide clear, concise, and concrete information to support your conclusion, such as having access to the actual data from Turbine on store sales, your conclusion is completely wrong.

Since you cannot provide this information, it must be assumed that DDO store sales did not skyrocket.

BTW, I agree with you, but some on this board won't.

notajedi wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 8:38am:

I've drawn that conclusion using a complex mathematical formulas on my shart patterns. Therefore it is a valid conclusion proven by undisputable concrete facts. I will gladly PM pics of my shart patterns to anyone that wants to study them so they can also come to the same conclusion.

I will, however, not share my complex mathematical formulas since everyone knows that math only further complicates problems.

Furthermore, I will go to great lenght of PMing pics of my sharts to anyone that disagrees with this scientifically proven and obvious fact untill they see the light of the truth.

notajedi wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 8:38am:


I agree that there were a large number of store purchases that weekend. 

Overall, though, I suspect the duping would result in a net loss for Turbine on store purchases.

You would see a large decline in long term purchases of crafting mats, dopants, XP Pots, healing pots, etc.  A lot of your consumables that get purchased can be duped or can be acquired through trade ins for items that can be duped. 

Since consumables tend to be their leading sellers, it stands to reason that the net impact of the bug was lower purchases in the store, even if the short term result was a significant up-tick. 

DDOcrackhead wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 8:22pm:


I'm the one who LordPiglet was talking about whose account got accessed by Turbine. I feel rather violated myself. Of course that might be just because I'm on the vault....

Yobai wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 10:33pm:

Glenalth wrote on Oct 15^th, 2013 at 10:55pm:

Agreed! Very refreshing.

hgm-chi wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 5:57am:


Oh shit who was it?? PM meh yogi!

Quak wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 12:15pm:

there were such threads long enough to people make up how that exploit worked, just by writing about it:)

cdr wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 12:53pm:


Sunday.

LordPiglet wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 1:54am:


Oh man, too bad they don't allow renaming storage bags, imagine what fun to rename your storage bags with offensive names like "GMXXX's Body Cavity"

You could still salt the comments on your friends list with comments like "Wants to see pictures of XXX naked" or "Had a drunken fling with XXX at Pax last year" and such.

They'd still go through your stuff, but damn would they hate their job. Even more, I mean. Like how bad does your life suck to be a Turbine GM - they ran out of jobs for telemarketers for credit card insurance?