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

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited June 15 in News & Features Discussion

imageStar 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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  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,839
    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!
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    Suspending an account sounds temporary rather than a Perma ban.


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  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,458
    So Babs, how long is your ban?
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  • RobokappRobokapp Member UncommonPosts: 155
    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?
  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,651

    Wargfoot said:

    So Babs, how long is your ban?



    I was just going to ask if anyone had checked on him
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  • toljartoljar Member UncommonPosts: 240
    Yea, I don't get it, why would they ban people for testing a game that goes through wipes every major patch anyway?

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  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,458
    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.
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  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    edited June 16
    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.
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  • olepiolepi Member EpicPosts: 3,053
    I wonder if any of the $48,000 whales were banned ...
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  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,458
    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.
  • angerbeaverangerbeaver Member UncommonPosts: 1,273

    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
  • BabuinixBabuinix Member EpicPosts: 4,462
    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. B)

    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.

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  • IceAgeIceAge Member EpicPosts: 3,203
    600? So like .. all their testers ?

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    Oh dear, there's trouble in paradise.
  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,458
    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. B)

    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.
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  • Super73Super73 Member UncommonPosts: 44
    There's only 2,437 people playing that game.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    Still probably more than New World has atm.  ;)

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  • Elidien_gaElidien_ga Member UncommonPosts: 408
    Kyleran said:
    Still probably more than New World has atm.  ;)
    Ouch but the truth does hurt. :)
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