I wonder how long this will be in effect for because it begs the questions of:
Are they going to pause taxes on housing?
Are they going to reimburse people that lost their house(s) due to not being able to get coin to pay said taxes if they don’t pause?
I prefer them to start banning people while working on a fix and not break the game further with their fix. A fix shouldn’t do more damage than the problem. imho, this fix creates bigger problems. They can ban the people who are exploiting gold duping, thus removing the gold from the economy too. The fix could potentially lead to factions losing territory.
AGS have colluded with “criminals” by knowingly releasing a game with well known exploits that allow said “criminals” to benefit financially IRL. AGS knew these exploits (yes multiple) existed well before release. AGS have only themselves to blame for providing a platform that has given “criminals” the opportunity to collude with AGS in the exploitation of these well known exploits.
Turboprop, You have simply misidentified the “bad people”, They are AGS.
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Oh, so the problem is you can’t play “fund-a-war.” Oh no.
So if given a choice you’ve already said turn the game off. They didn’t agree with you. This topic is dead at this point if you won’t engage in open discussions.
Instead, you only care about yourself, much like the exploiters. I’m done with you all.
If someone declares war on you, you need to shell out coin to mount a defense. If your company doesn’t have that coin in the bank before this change, you are SOL and will lose the war and your territory.
That’s the comedy. Half the weapons don’t work or are exploitable, so wars are already unplayable; the duped items have crashed the economy, so gathering is pointless as well; and the duped gold is now purchasable with real cash, so end game doesn’t matter. My advice is to just stop playing until they hit a massive reset button on the entire game and pray they can recover from this PR nightmare.
That is why I say
Just read some of the threads in the forum to see the size of the problem they have in their hands right now.
Pretty sure I’m aware of who is bad here. I think AGS does have blame for not patching highlighted security issues but that doesn’t take away blame for those who engage in illegal activity. And yes, a ToS is a legally binding agreement.
Using the word “collusion” tells me all I need to know about the mindset being used here.
I disagree with collusion. I think it’s incompetence.
Solo players rise up! Our time is now!
Bro, why wouldn’t you just play a real single-player narrative-based game? MMOs are always worse single player experiences by comparison.
My server is empty now, a gathering paradise.
The only thing I miss is the temporary storage for a small fee.
Gold dupe has existed since launch and was reported in the beta, as were a lot of the major issues that are hot topics around what diminishes the overall experience in this game.
They knew about this, as in a developer responded to the report in these forums to a post explaining exactly how to perform the dupe.
Another post on here pretty much states they have the tools to monitor all of the gold in the game.
The conclusions I can come to are that they do not have the tools to monitor all of the gold in the economy, or the gold dupe exploit was so minor that it didn’t warrant this until it leaked over the weekend.
Either way allowing a game to go live with a known gold dupe as easy to perform as this one is incompetence at best and intentional deceit at worst.
The issues with resilience and onyx gems mitigating all damage instead of critical damage has been known of for over a year.
Like seriously what the fuck?
By doing so they they preventem ppl from making huge amounts of money that they would need to track and take away which they will already have to do so but they just stopped increasing their workload…
The gold dupe is a problem that existed before the game went full retail, it was brought up by quite a few people in the beta testing phase that it existed. The loophole didn’t get closed. But I’m sure that now, somehow, AGS will fix it all Soon™
Exactly, exploiters are doing their job. AGS are not.
What is the point of disabling all trading but keep the game going, and don’t increase storage limits. We can’t sell anything, no one was warned beforehand so you’re stuck loaded up with gear.
It’s dumb. My first MMO, I never come to game forums, but this is a joke. If they are releasing a game you cannot play, then they should offer refunds. This is just like the Cyberpunk fiasco.
Wait until you hear that turning off all gold transfer has introduced a new exploit in which all companies can dupe gold and max out their banks.
It’s happening right now
Says the duper.
Wait. Explain it.