Hey AGS, remember when I warned you not to split the community into two and you did it anyway after locking my post? Hows that working out for you?

[Blackxp]

@Ziphius

Dupe isn’t the only reason FSS exist and the way Legacy players have been acting towards FSS players on here is fast moving to the number one reason I’d not want to get in their server. All the toxicity from the people who can’t even understand people prefer to start fresh with other people all starting at the same point rather than being with people who invested thousands of hours in it.

I think this is honestly a great reason to have them. They are a nice tool to use to get new players into the game without feeling intimidated by a server full of max players. It let’s people experience the game differently. I think alongside other catch-up mechanics FSS every year after the expansion release isn’t a bad idea assuming they get merged into the main servers.

For those that used then to escape “dupes” and the whole fictitious “tainted server” narrative have shifted from pending disappointment to an active grieving process. I think many people this is their first entrance into an MMO and their expectations are vastly different from reality unfortunately. For some maybe it means this genre isn’t for them, that’s okay. We welcome new people! But for some they may be better off playing single player games because they cannot tolerate being “behind” or that feeling that they are behind. FSS can help dampen that feeling, but won’t work for everything with that issue. Ideally people are there to Amrine with similarly leveled players and do open world PVP at lower levels, etc
Anyways. Single player games are great for that “god-like” I’m better than all of the NPCs feeling that some people are chasing.

[Malvagite]

@Blackxp

The key is what they do in response to them and their response is very impressive compared with release.

Ive played mmorpgs for over 20 years, this isnt my first rodeo. Clearly AGS does not have the ability to remove the duped items from the game (we know this because not all items have unique identification making it impossible), as such the only acceptable response is to:
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[1] Fix the exploit in question to prevent it happening again
[2] Rollback the server since they cannot remove all of the duped items
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Anything short of that is an unnacceptable response and will forever call into question the integrity of this game and its economy.