Going to provide a bad analogy. If the pipes in your basement break you turn the water off before you start pumping the water out. That way you are dealing with less water.
I kind of decided a couple of days in this is all kind of a test run. Even open BETA can’t compare to the sheer numbers when a game goes live. There were bound to be missteps. Granted there have been some really large problems that seem to persist. I don’t mind missing a feature for a day or two or even if the game is offline for a couple of days if the end results are a much better game going forward. I’m hoping to stick around and play for a very long time. I still play ESO and have since early access. I would like to do the same here so a few inconveniences now I’ve decided are not going to bother me.
You never actually lose your house so that won’t be an issue no matter how long the economy is down. You will definitely lose the travel aspect of your house if your taxes do indeed lapse, but the minute you pay them you are free to use the recall point. I actually went four days without paying my lapsed taxes and didn’t make the payment until I absolutely needed to go back home.
What makes me very upset is that they’ve known about the ability to duplicate gold/items using this exact method since closed Beta and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. There is no more game breaking bug in a sandbox MMO than the ability to duplicate items. It ruins the economy potentially forever. The gold flows through the system. People used this dupe to buy territories quickly, to get their crafting maxed quickly, to then create and duplicate those crafted items to their company and then wage war against honest companies.
I was fine with the game bugs around combat as I figured they’d eventually get fixed. I was fine even with the lag in War, assuming that would eventually get fixed. I’ll just focus on crafting and whatnot until it gets fixed. But gold duping for a month has been going on, Amazon knew about the exploit, and chose not to do anything until it finally got out to the masses on how to do it. The economy has been destroyed. It didn’t have to happen. It should have been fixed in Beta (where a developer posted in the thread showing they were indeed aware of it). Nothing was ever done. That’s insane. How can you be aware of a gold duping exploit and not fix it?
If this were merely a “feature” and there were other ways, such as a vendor, to sell stuff, I’d agree with you. But, this is literally one of the three core components of the game. If they can’t have this up and running, they might as well shut the entire game down. I’m sorry, but this is simply incompetence.
They don’t even have an ETA. Is this going to last one more hour, or a week? Shutting down the entire player to player economy should warrant some sort of an explanation or ETA. This is not just a “feature” that we can effectively play the game without.
