Blizz didn’t do anything for 2 days, when people told them about it lol. They let people sub then ban them. Because alot of people did resub for it. Lots off people have now quit cause of this. People kept asking and asking with no response. There are also much bigger bugs/exploits going on right now.
(I am not banned btw. Haven’t played since Tuesday)
Don’t know for how much you got banned. But i hope for a good while damn counts crashed the market in my realm
Sometimes small indie companies have long chain of command.
It really really doesn’t take that long. Don’t defend them. They hsve hotfixed things like this in the past very quickly or Atleast reply to people telling them about it and warning against it. Both parties are at wrong in this case besides those players who accidently or blindly did this.
Lol. This exploit did not cause any issues to any other players. However the cauldron bug is very bad and It hasn’t been fixed and has actually impacted the market.
except some people getting some extra exp didnt hurt anyone else, blizzard’s just mad at their own mistakes so they ban people left and right
It affected other players negatively, just because nobody came up and punched me in the face directly doesn’t mean I’m not affected.
how does if affect anyone else if I have an extra level 120 character that I got faster than usual?
How are you effected???
The underlying foundation of the game is based on the fact that we obey the same rules. Now some chumps level up hundreds of characters by exploiting, they run around picking herbs I could have had but they all disappeared in front of my eyes. They make gold which they wouldn’t have had access to without exploiting, this can affect token prices.
Theres hundreds of variables but to say “it doesnt affect others” doesn’t look at the wider picture.
You mean, except the part where players can pay blizzard real money and literally get same service as “potion abusers” got, even better actually, just pay money and get 110 levels.
each potion costs 5 “weird currency which name i forgot” and last for an hour, doubt anyone would have enough currency to level hundreds of characters. and no it’s not even a good metaphor if you used it that way, most people just leveled 1-2 characters at most.
No. same herb can be picked by 100001 characters before it disappears. also not sure how anyone could pick herb with 100 characters unless they’re multiboxing, which is entirely different subject.
? how
we’re talking about 1 person have 10 different characters or 100. we’re not discussing multiboxing. you seem to have more issues with multiboxing than someone having extra level 120.
Yes you are an oppressed victim of these malicious conniving levelers lol. How dare their butterfly wings flap and now there is a tornado in my house!
We’re talking about hundreds or thousands of people doing it, not one person leveling 100 characters. /facepalm
And although nodes disappear in front of me all the time, its not even a stretch to imagine that an exploited character yoinked one in front of me, therefore I was affected.
Theres degrees of separation with this stuff, maybe some upstart said he could beat my M+ score so I exploited an fotm class up to 120 to spank his score saving me 50 hours of leveling…
A Cheat will cheat anyone, anywhere not just in a game…shame there are so many of them out there!!!
Then they should still be arrested, as it’s theft (Or go back and pay for it once the medicine has been given to the person). If they don’t go back to pay for it, then the shop is ALLOWED to go and report them.
Then that person is also to blame, since they should know better. Now, if there was a sign saying “Free Samples”, then people would take them. But, anyone with at least a tiny bit of common sense would know that, just because others are doing it doesn’t make it right.
Plus, how does your analogies even work? The exploit was used to ADVANCE in a game for THAT player. They didn’t do it to help anyone but themselves, so your first analogy is moot.
I knew about the exploit, was in a call with people doing the exploit, but I was also smart enough not to do it myself, because I knew it was an exploit. Again, common sense comes into play here. If I decided to follow my friends and do it because “they were doing it”, then I was told it was an exploit, I would deal with the deserved punishment.
This is a rather simple case. People exploited, it broke ToS, it clearly states not to abuse bugs/glitches within game for your own personal gain. Due to the ToS being broken, people got punished for it.
If people resubbed for this exploit, then that’s on them, not Blizzard. You think Blizzard just set this up? You think they created the bug, just to ban people? Conspiracies are amazing things.
If people quit because they got banned for using an exploit, they’re not going to enjoy any online game, since other games do exactly the same thing.
They would unsub because they are not really happy about the state of the game but couldn’t get over the step of unsubing, this now takes that step away from them.
Just having the character doesnt. In fact if nobody knew you had that character through exploitation it wouldnt.
But looking at the bigger picture and since everyone and their mothers are aware of this especially after some dummies streamed it while incentivizing more to do it, that knowledge alone affects.
A parallelism to some aspects of RL could be draw, but I wont, cause contrary to iRL no one is born here, it’s a choice everyone makes wich imo makes any form of cheating in a videogame much more despicable. The well know phrase <it’s just a game bro> works both ways.
If such well known exploits go unpunished the message sent to the playerbase is a loud and clear <We don’t care> wich makes the already exploitive players eager to abuse more and also incentivizes more players to do it because apparently it’s OK. Repeat this cycle a few times and all theres left is a cesspit of cheaters.
TLDR: It’s bad for the community
Btw this exploit was much more than leveling a character faster, people were running around with 300% stats, literally blapping anyone who crossed their path
Here’s a real-world thing you’re not going to like, and it’s not even an analogy.
Being prosecuted for stealing digital products and services from a business.
Be grateful you just got a short ban.
It really does, Anything that is not directly covered by instructions takes days, because big companies can’t allow personnel act on their own. It would quickly lead to chaos.
You seem unable to catch concept of fair terms for everyone.