So just delete the characters that duped or made free gold. Delete the gold and items they still have. That will solve most of the problem if done quickly.
That requires them to actually do something…
At this point they would have to make a warning that they are actively hunting exploiters because it is unofficially normal conduct. Exploits are the meta and people that pursue them are generally rewarded. Im just glad Im not a part of these competitive companies that need to push the limit by any means necessary.
I havent seen any headlines of streamers being banned beyond the measly 24 hr ban that isnt even long enough to even appeal. Im sure word would get around and honestly thats where they would need to start, with an example.
But honestly how are we to know if they are actively banning folks?
Announce that cheating will get you banned?
If they were actively banning people, the forums would be full of people whining. Streamers wouldn’t still be streaming live the exploits of the game. There are certain guilds on my server (I’m assuming most servers) that are known for actively exploiting in order to win. They have been reported multiple times by multiple people and they are still here everyday.
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They will do what every gaming company in such state would do: Fix it, ban nobody and never talk about it again.
The reason for that is simple. On my server alone, we have proof through streams that in EVERY war we took part in the purples exploited the crap out of this game and we send those videos to AGS for further analysis. Now, the issue here is that AGS have to aknowledge those exploits as actual exploits and not only bugs, because a bug is a bug and generally not banable. Also they can also say “Well it’s not clear that people are abusing the exploit because they just have 40 mages with 10 healers in there and that might be their strategy”. So there is always room for debate and no gaming company will ever have that discussion.
So the smartes way - from AGS perspective - is definetely to just fix it, let players play the game and they will forget about the bans which you will never execute, because you can’t even track the exploit users and if you could you would have to ban a HUGE chunk of the whole community from which you want to milk them through the cash shop in the future. That’s not going to happen.
Hopefully they will all end up with VAC bans or something. A nice trophy for their steam account to show what good gamers they are.
Without knowing the details of what people have been doing, a combat glitch is something different than an exploit. It’s hard not to adapt to the actual mechanics of the game at any given point, so it is a grey area. How is someone supposed to know that X behavior that has been there since they started playing is intentional or not? Duping items or gold on the other hand there is absolutely no excuse for.
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This honestly is the top issue.
I feel players are willing to wait for fixes – as long as the cheating and exploiting is stopped.
And they can at least deter it by quickly banning exploiters and cheaters regularly while they fix things.
Other games regularly have reports of a tally of bans and even listings of accounts banned. That reinforces faith of legitimate players and keeps them playing.
It’s been too long for a lot of exploits and cheats. Legitimate players deserve compensation. Hefty compensation especially if they are going to wipe the servers.
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FFXIV actually had an issue when it first started when you could manipulate a packet and create items or gold. Square Enix banned everyone that had over a certain amount of gold whether you did the act or received money from selling an item for an inflated price.
Manipulating the network packets for any reason should be an instant and permanent ban period.
When you suddenly get great results, especially when you have to take extraordinary action to do so (e.g., macros or insane button mashing), you are already into suspicious territory and had better stop and report.
Bless Unleashed bans players when “their account is abnormal”. They can argue with customer service later.
Too many players just pretend they didn’t know it’s exploitation when that’s what they are doing.
Is your fire staff machinegunning? You seriously don’t think that’s abnormal?
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I can’t argue on that, because i never played the game, but i guess it wasn’t basically half of the population right?
I guess if anybody here in this thread took part in any war since Launch you should know what’s going on in wars right now and it might be only my server specifically - which is highly doubt, because there is Twitch and YT Video proof that it is happening on a daily basis - but my company and i am experiencing and experienced during the last weeks severe issues and exploit usage in Wars such as intentionally lagging the server and using the Window-Invincible-Exploit on point.
Well, if you get video proof on a daily basis where you can see and sometimes even hear that they are intentionally lagging the server with spaming AOE then i guess its on AGS to decide if that’s an abuse of and exploit/issue or not. My point is just - and thats what i specifically said in my comment - that AGS have to aknowledge something as an exploit first because they than can punish people for it. So what you basically just said here is exactly what was in my comment, just in different words.
But to answer your point, you CAN see what people did, because there is a ton of tickets on such behaviour. You “just” have to judge if that’s an issue or “OK”, because .
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The world is ending, run for your lives!
Yes, gold dupes and bots are really a pain. But they have happened in EVERY SINGLE MMO I have ever played. And I have still end up playing them for years and having fun.
It is not the end, NW is a success, they will fix the bugs and as far as bots and exploiters cheaters go, I hope they ban as many as possible.
From the way people go on and on, they should never ever play an MMO, or most PC games, many console ones as well.
Very well put!
I encourage others to read the whole post, but it’s to the point.
There is absolutely no way they will find all the botters, dupers and exploiters…and the steps they’ve taken to cover their trails, and be able to do anything about it.
The only thing they really have left is to fix it. Wipe. Restart. In that order.
We’ve played for hours and hours for our $40, and had some good times. Let’s do it again legitimately. If you want to refund, go for it. Of course…many people would pause before doing that if there was a bit of a price hike to re-puchase the game 
So everything would stay the same? LOL. Sad but true!
New world is not on the VAC list
I expect a weekly ban list soon with the names of the exploiters, since the first weeks I saw people putting low tier items at exorbitant prices on the market like tier 1 hatchet being sold at 16k, I asked myself why would someone pay 1k tax to put a tier 1 hatchet to sell at 16k??? now i understand that is gold exploiters accounts… laundering money for your non exploiter accounts… hope they are tracked and punished.