Knight Online: Accounts Penalized for Exploits

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Knight Online penalized accounts for exploits.

In efforts to provide a better gaming experience to all players, your Knight Online team has penalized 3469 accounts identified in our databases to have been exploiting the recent quest bug. Players that have abused this bug received an experience point double penalty. This penalty is based on their total experience earned and how many times the bug was abused. An example of this is if a level 70 player used this bug to level to 75, that would result in the player being de-leveled to 65.

Remember that any exploitation of discovered bugs can be punishable up to account termination.

As always, we thank the vast majority of players in the Knight Online World who are playing the game fairly and we look forward to seeing you in-game!

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Archa

now that is a great way to reduce exploitation of bugs.

i just hope that they wont lose accounts because they penalised them.

 

but justice is served.

 

Gonodil

ohh i like this, great idea.

WisebutCruel

You call deleveling their toons account banning? LOL. Seriously, K2 is a freakin' joke. KO is FULL of exploiters, hackers, dupers, scammers. 3600 getting "penalized" is supposed to be a great thing? Compared to how many people they have playing unfairly? That there own GM's either help or look the other way for? And now they'll turn Grenado Espada into the same angry Turks, botters, cheaters, scammers playground as KO? Do an article on that, why don't ya?



Edit: And change the headline to match the content, please.

Gonodil

They did a lot more than most companies do when someone exploits a bugged quest, so quit bitchin

Robbgobb

That is funny to read. Would be cool to hear of someone exploiting and then losing all their levels.

smartkidz

Originally posted by Robbgobb

That is funny to read. Would be cool to hear of someone exploiting and then losing all their levels.

LoL i saw something like that somewhere else. And when the person logged on he/she was like "WTF?". And that person actually contacted support after using a exploit to level and got caught. LoL.

gpett

I truely cannot believe game companies feel justified in actions such as these.  An "Exploit" is used synonymously with a player using a bug to gain advantage in the game.  All players are looking to gain an advantage in any competative game.  The responsibility is for the game company to fix "bugs" or "exploits" or prevent them from ocuring.  I hate hearing people whine about exploits...  they should instead whine about the decreasing quality of games that are released as final products.

 

Way to go game developers for punishing people that pay you to play a game that allowed them to "exploit".

bobertr

Because you Can do a thing does not mean you should or have a right to.  there is an advantage and an unfair advantage.  they were not banned but , perhaps, made an example of.  there are new GM"s out there ppl, including some "unnamed" or secrect.  Given financial limits of a free game, and the number of cheaters, it can be hard to notice the difference  but don't believe the GM's have stopped trying.  It is said some "looking the other way"  have been replaced.  The exploiters were treated firm but fair, and this is only fair to the players that did not cheat.   Now They have the advantage.

Stardom00

I would just simply ban them but I have no regard in anyone you exploits or hacks any game. Games ARE for FUN.. Just because one person has the pleasure to exploit doesn't mean he should get away with dissatisying other players. Think about it..

A game such as KO.. They are a free game BUT!! Nonetheless they have a "buy" system where players can purchase additional items and etc.. If the players that purchase items find that a free account can level faster than they can because the free account exploits bugs and glitches do you really think that the pay 2 play person will purchase anything again?? If that is the case what is going to keep the game running? A game has to make money to stay running.. Regardless.

Gameloading

experience penalized? they should be BANNED!

orkidea

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

And now they'll turn Grenado Espada into the same angry Turks, botters, cheaters, scammers playground as KO? Do an article on that, why don't ya?

Well there is already tons of games like that

icu2hehe

More window dressing from K2 in a continuing effort to prop up their image.  High level players that exploited that bug have already stated that nothing was done to them.   Given the history at K2 .. they used the 75 and 65 levels for an example only for effect.  Chances are, the only players that were penalized were below level 50.

twiztid19

            Its bad enough that it takes a month or two of hard grinding to even get to lv75.. And in the end if you want to play 24/7 it is a p2p game, because half the time the servers are full and only premium users can get in. They should of just fixed it and let people play.. they prob lost atleast 50% of those 3k people. In the end though, i hate games that you have to grind to get anywhere. I can do it, i used to do it, But games without grinding are way more fun in my opinion.

joshe

yeah, K2N penalized 3.6k accounts ... when in fact 3/4 of all players are cheating, exploiting, scamming, etc.
It's a complete mockery to penalize even those couple accounts.
Sheesh ... "money 1st , gamers last" is the most well known slogan in mmorpg world.

Ahh, 1 thing for future haters: I dun play KO, don't want to participate in those Knight Cheatonline game after I saw what happened to my couple friends playing this s#

Kyleran

Meh... FTP games are usually full of stuff like this... figure the players would get used to it by now.

But, glad to see they tried to proactively do this.  I remember when COV first came out some guilds figured out some sort of prestige exploit that let them build enormous bases by buying rooms and selling them back for more than they paid for them. 

The players/guilds weren't banned, however they lost their bases and incurred some sort of large prestige debt that had to be first worked off before they could build another base.....

 

DeathWolf2u

News Flash!!!  It is FACT that every mmorpg out there is exploitable. FACT, thousands of players use hacks for PvP, (i.e. most players that are always whining about wanting PvP in mmorpg's are usually the culprits).

FACT, most mmorpg's are simplistic to run scripts for many functions of the game code.

FACT, mmorpg's are becoming a dead genre

FACT, many gamers are now gravitating towards rpg's with online play capability (example:NWN2 among the few of them)

FACT, gamers who are not aware of this are usually the complete newbs

FACT, it is not noobs the correct term is newbs you newbs 

bobertr

complain if u want but it is a sign that SOMETHING is being done to turn back the tide of cheaters.  yes, cheating is still massive.  They chat onpenly about where to get bots and pm preists to help them but some seem to be getting scared. I've found botters standing instead of sitting while botting (harder to take a screen shot that proves anything).  Even if too little over all, this action taken by K2/KOL was a positive thing. Again, firm but fair.  Enjoy the minor victory, take the money and run,  party on.

Take the screen shot  -  use the link.   Don't get mad, get even.

P.S.  I know the spelling ty. Glad it caught ur i. 

Gonodil

Originally posted by DeathWolf2u


 
FACT, mmorpg's are becoming a dead genre
FACT, many gamers are now gravitating towards rpg's with online play capability (example:NWN2 among the few of them)
FACT, gamers who are not aware of this are usually the complete newbs
FACT, it is not noobs the correct term is newbs you newbs 

FACT, you're full of crap

Romse

Originally posted by Gonodil

Originally posted by DeathWolf2u


 
FACT, mmorpg's are becoming a dead genre
FACT, many gamers are now gravitating towards rpg's with online play capability (example:NWN2 among the few of them)
FACT, gamers who are not aware of this are usually the complete newbs
FACT, it is not noobs the correct term is newbs you newbs 

FACT, you're full of crap



QFT

Gameloading

Originally posted by DeathWolf2u


News Flash!!!  It is FACT that every mmorpg out there is exploitable. FACT, thousands of players use hacks for PvP, (i.e. most players that are always whining about wanting PvP in mmorpg's are usually the culprits).
FACT, most mmorpg's are simplistic to run scripts for many functions of the game code.
FACT, mmorpg's are becoming a dead genre
FACT, many gamers are now gravitating towards rpg's with online play capability (example:NWN2 among the few of them)
FACT, gamers who are not aware of this are usually the complete newbs
FACT, it is not noobs the correct term is newbs you newbs 

You should get your facts right.