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Trion Swings The Hammer - Entire Guild Banned
SBFord
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Trion Swings The Hammer - Entire Guild Banned
Trion Worlds has made a post on the official ArcheAge forums regarding a server first kill of Leviathan boss by the guild called "Rage Quit". According to reports of other players and the summary by forum moderators, the guild utilized an exploit to complete the kill. As a result of taking advantage of the exploit, all members participating in the event got permanently banned, the guild has been disbanded and all loot gained has been removed from the world.
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Now do not go and unban them next week.
/runs-and-hides
Tbh been in that situation so many times where a mob just gets stuck and I jump on the advantage of it and can bet so many gamers have lol.
Even after saying that, they should have just owned up to it, explained that it was never planned, show the fottage and they would have been fine.
AA seems to be filled with cheaters and idiots alike.
They banned them because of the mass players qq-ing over this.
I still think that a perma-ban because of an NPC ( boss ) bug is to much. The boss got .. stuck in a bad animation. Of course they killed it.
Sure an easy kill, so delete the loot which they got from the boss and .. ok , 7 days ban and a warning , but perma ban? This clearly show how bad trion is. They wanted with this to "wash" their dirty hands in front of the players. And from the reply's on their official forum, they kinda managed it.
Bad company is bad!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
was this a known bug? did they have to do something to trigger the bug, or did it just happen randomly because the code sucks? If the players did nothing to trigger the event I say this is too harsh, if they did something to trigger the boss to get stuck then I am for the ban.
the missing link in a chain of destruction.
All spelling and typographical errors are based soely on the fact that i just dont care. If you must point out my lack of atention to detail, please do it with a smile.
I agree with you on this.
but getting ban in tis game not so bad, just move to better mmo game
What part of Now do not go and unban them next week are you not understanding?
You still white knighting this game?
Sounds like a bug to me, rather than an exploit; otherwise, Trion would (or should) have fixed it a little more quickly, in order to prevent people from "exploiting".
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They exploited the fact that the Leviathan was glitched and could be killed without it attacking them back. It should have been reported via a support ticket or the forums. Instead they chose to go ahead with the kill, get the loot and the "prestige" of NA's first Leviathan kill, and basically boast about the whole thing on the forums. A perma-ban was the right thing to do.
I self identify as a monkey.
Not saying they should not be punished, but think perm-ban was a bit of a leap considering, people who actually go out their way to cause misery, exploits and problems get temp bans. think they should have lost all the items or what ever they gained from the kill and banned for a month max imho.
But a 'perma' ban from a free to play game is pretty meaningless especially when they can buy their way back to wherever they were in a day.
More than likely they all make new accounts and Trino silently gives those new accounts all the real world money stuff the old accounts had.
For those wondering, the guild actually dumped a bunch of metals and lumber into the sea, in an effort to get the boss to stay in a specific area (which turns out, worked). The boss didn't glitch, the players took specific steps to ensure the boss would not be movable.
Now....is that an exploit?....considering that its a "sandbox" (i use that term loosely here..), I would chalk that up to "clever use of game mechanics", but it also seems like a member of the guild tried to actually blackmail Trion afterwards, thus the permaban.
Everything I just wrote took all of 45 seconds of internet usage to find out...