Star Citizen Bans Over 600 Accounts For Using Currency Exploit | MMORPG.com

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Star Citizen Bans Over 600 Accounts For Using Currency Exploit | MMORPG.com

There was a bit of duping going on in Star Citizen that allowed players to gain massive amounts of in-game currency, but those who utilized this exploit are being banned left, right, and center. 

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Angrakhan

Yeah item/currency duping in any online game that maintains a transaction log is risky at best. You're banking on the developers being merciful when they find out because it's not a question of if but when. The forensic evidence is there in perpetuity. You can't launder the money either like you can in real life with various financial shell games because the money never leaves the game so the data is all there no matter how many alts or trial accounts you want to try and trade it to. Enjoy your bans, cheaters!

Kyleran

Suspending an account sounds temporary rather than a Perma ban.

Wargfoot

So Babs, how long is your ban?

Robokapp

System said:

There was a bit of duping going on in Star Citizen 

isn't that what the testing phase is for?

if the game was released i could see this being bannable but during testing?

Slapshot1188

Wargfoot said:

So Babs, how long is your ban?

I was just going to ask if anyone had checked on him

toljar

Yea, I don't get it, why would they ban people for testing a game that goes through wipes every major patch anyway?

Wargfoot

toljar said:

Yea, I don't get it, why would they ban people for testing a game that goes through wipes every major patch anyway?

If you're the kind of tester that doesn't report duplication bugs, you should be banned.

MaxBacon

toljar said:

Yea, I don't get it, why would they ban people for testing a game that goes through wipes every major patch anyway?

This is more about over the top abuse of the exploit.

Exploits happen, people might get some gain, then there are those people who will farm it until it's over then it gets to extreme points it can actually negatively impact everyone else. Discoragement acts on a constant basis are a must or it just becomes common practice.


It's about how even released MMOs deal with exploits, people who used it before a fix tend to get away with it, people who farm it get the ban.

olepi

I wonder if any of the $48,000 whales were banned ...

Wargfoot

olepi said:

I wonder if any of the $48,000 whales were banned ...

Dunno why they'd dupe if they've already bought the win.

angerbeaver

Wargfoot said:

olepi said:

I wonder if any of the $48,000 whales were banned ...

Dunno why they'd dupe if they've already bought the win.

For some people, it is never enough. There is usually other Whales to out-Whale

Babuinix

Wargfoot said:

So Babs, how long is your ban?

Duping, cheating, hacking is for the weaklings, those who can't play, who merely adopted the grind. I was born in it, molded by it.

TBH glad CIG finally acted on that as it sends a clear message, despite being in Alpha and wipes are and will be a thing for a while more and more people were selling credits online that would eventually all be erased.

IceAge

600? So like .. all their testers ?

Scot

Oh dear, there's trouble in paradise.

Wargfoot

Babuinix said:

Wargfoot said:

So Babs, how long is your ban?

Duping, cheating, hacking is for the weaklings, those who can't play, who merely adopted the grind. I was born in it, molded by it.

TBH glad CIG finally acted on that as it sends a clear message, despite being in Alpha and wipes are and will be a thing for a while more and more people were selling credits online that would eventually all be erased.

Babs, I've wanted you to die in a fire for two years now.
In this single post you've made me a fan.

Rock on, dude.

Super73

There's only 2,437 people playing that game.

Kyleran

Still probably more than New World has atm. 

Elidien_ga

Kyleran said:

Still probably more than New World has atm. 

Ouch but the truth does hurt.