Anet permabans already???

oceanwater

half the twitch streamers are permabanned lawl!!!

oceanwater

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

Jyiiga

Crime doesn't pay in Anet MMOs. 

inzane3

A lot of MMORPG's can take a lesson from them  

Gardavsshade

Originally posted by oceanwater

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

Thank you very much. Well Done.

oceanwater

sniffy got perma-banned she didnt do anything  to funny

Deathenger

I wonder if they introduced Dhuum like in the original Guild Wars?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=9B6bZSpQHxU

 

People are going to get the picture real quick that ArenaNet does not tolerate d'bags, exploiters, cheaters, and gold sellers and drop the bad hammer without mercy.

Xerith

Good, if you are dumb enough to exploit, you should be banned forever. I don't need those types of people clogging up my gaming experience. 

PaRoXiTiC

I love Arena Net. They find people screwing around and they put the hammer down. Hope the $60 was worth the exploit. Haha 

Eir_S

Originally posted by oceanwater

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

Oh God, that made me laugh. lol

Badaboom

Why would any _______ person do this, and expect to get away with it.  Good riddance. 

waynejr2

Originally posted by oceanwater
half the twitch streamers are permabanned lawl!!!

What is a twitch streamer?

oceanwater

twitch.tv  people stream the games they play:  wow. gw2, LoL et al.

Rednecksith

Have to admit, it's nice to see an MMO company actually DO something meaningful about exploiters, cheaters, and overall d-bags instead of slapping them on the wrist because they don't want to lose the subscription revenue.

Kopogero

Another great decision done to avoid this game, despite the massive hype. What a company does when it has its own problems? Bans its customers, rather than fix its issues. There are ways and means you can properly fix an exploit without anyone being harmed cuz of it, like doing a rollback to those accounts or removing the profits earned.

On top of that permaban without prior violations on your account remainds me of the old SOE days with SWG Pre-CU. But we all know how that ended, and they begged getting as many subs back in the game with the collapse after NGE.

IfrianMMO

Originally posted by Kopogero

Another great decision done to avoid this game, despite the massive hype. What a company does when it has its own problems? Bans its customers, rather than fix its issues. There are ways and means you can properly fix an exploit without anyone being harmed cuz of it, like doing a rollback to those accounts or removing the profits earned.

On top of that permaban without prior violations on your account remainds me of the old SOE days with SWG Pre-CU. But we all know how that ended, and they begged getting as many subs back in the game with the collapse after NGE.

  Have you even read ocean´s answer?

 They banned people that exploited the system by buying absurd amounts of items using a glitch/bug.

 This is not innocent people that got caught up without realizing, but people that thought could get away with cheating.

Xerith

Originally posted by Kopogero

Another great decision done to avoid this game, despite the massive hype. What a company does when it has its own problems? Bans its customers, rather than fix its issues. There are ways and means you can properly fix an exploit without anyone being harmed cuz of it, like doing a rollback to those accounts or removing the profits earned.

On top of that permaban without prior violations on your account remainds me of the old SOE days with SWG Pre-CU. But we all know how that ended, and they begged getting as many subs back in the game with the collapse after NGE.

Seriously? They did fix the issue, and banned the people who took advantage of a game system that was broken. I can't believe someone is actually going to try to blame this on Anet lol. 

"I didnt break the law officer, somehow this window got broken and I took all the stuff inside. Even though I knew I shouldnt have the window was broken and therefore I shouldnt be at fault."

Yea. 

No. 

Do something dumb, get banned, its your own fault and no one elses. 

erictlewis

I love it Anet is not tolerating any of the bs from bad players.  You cheat you get banned.  I think it sends a clear message, play right or we will fix you (insert picture of bob barker with a pair of pruning shears).

You got to respect Anet for not tolerating cheaters.  As far as cheaters go, they get what the deserve.

 

 

Loke666

Originally posted by oceanwater

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

That is so right.

Permabanning someone for doing it once would be too rough but someone buying a thousand swords for something like this do deserves to be banned.

But frankly I expect more bans to come, some people just have to cheat no matter what they do.

Badaboom

Originally posted by Kopogero

Another great decision done to avoid this game, despite the massive hype. What a company does when it has its own problems? Bans its customers, rather than fix its issues. There are ways and means you can properly fix an exploit without anyone being harmed cuz of it, like doing a rollback to those accounts or removing the profits earned.

On top of that permaban without prior violations on your account remainds me of the old SOE days with SWG Pre-CU. But we all know how that ended, and they begged getting as many subs back in the game with the collapse after NGE.

I can't believe you're defending them...unless your one of 'em. 

Thornz2000

Originally posted by Jyiiga
Crime doesn't pay in Anet MMOs. 

Crime does pay, just don't get caught.

Aelious

Originally posted by Kopogero

Another great decision done to avoid this game, despite the massive hype. What a company does when it has its own problems? Bans its customers, rather than fix its issues. There are ways and means you can properly fix an exploit without anyone being harmed cuz of it, like doing a rollback to those accounts or removing the profits earned.

On top of that permaban without prior violations on your account remainds me of the old SOE days with SWG Pre-CU. But we all know how that ended, and they begged getting as many subs back in the game with the collapse after NGE.

 

What is wrong with punishing those that violate exploits like that? On a stream no less with x amount of people watching.  Yes, blame the ones in the right.

Gardavsshade

Originally posted by oceanwater
twitch.tv  people stream the games they play:  wow. gw2, LoL et al.

They what?

Stupid low quality American Internet backbone isn't good enough for that kind of abuse, that crap needs to stop. I am tired of fighting internet congestion on he.net.

People must be pretty damn bored to watch somebody ELSE play a MMO.

(Hint: Go play the MMO yourself)

Muerte_X

So would I get banned from Target if they had, say iPods priced at $1, and I bought a crapload of them? It is in a store marked at a price, and all I did was buy the item? I do not see fault with the customer.

Idk, taking advantage of a cheap price OFFERED BY Anet on gear does not seem like a bannable offense to me. Rollback/take the gear and send these people a message saying Woops... cause it seems like thier mistake not the individuals who bought something for cheap.

Stx11

Originally posted by Kopogero

Another great decision done to avoid this game, despite the massive hype. What a company does when it has its own problems? Bans its customers, rather than fix its issues. There are ways and means you can properly fix an exploit without anyone being harmed cuz of it, like doing a rollback to those accounts or removing the profits earned.

On top of that permaban without prior violations on your account remainds me of the old SOE days with SWG Pre-CU. But we all know how that ended, and they begged getting as many subs back in the game with the collapse after NGE.

Really?!? You are defending people who deliberately bought hundreds or thousands(?!?!) of Karma Weapons at an obviously incorrect price for being perma-banned?

Bwahahahaha!!!

Now I know why you troll against this game!!!

and back to the OP...

Don't "F" with the "Net" - great job ANet. Truly fantastic.

Furrballs

Anet must be completely batty, any exploitable flaws in game design are completely their fault, what should happen is just removing the exploited items gained and moving on, its just the nature of people to exploit something in a GAME if they can, perma bans for customers that just paid them $60+ is just insane and is incredibly bad business practice..