Apparently the 2 day ban players got their accounts back and none of their levels got reverted.
Kinda makes us players who didn’t do the exploit look stupid huh for not doing it. gg blizz
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People seem to think I’m salty about the ban lenght, which I’m not. What I am salty about is the fact that their levels didn’t get reverted back to their level prior to the exploit.
If I had known that their levels wouldn’t get reverted, I would have taken full advantage of this exploit to level as many characters to 120, enjoy other games while waiting out the ban, and then return to fresh level 120 characters filling up my character selection screen.
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Well no.
As far as I understand it the bans work on two factors 1) previous record: how many suspensions you’ve received before because they add up. 2) how much you exploited, using 6 pots stacked got less punishment than using 20 pots stacked etc.
The lowest ban was 2/3 days the highest was 31 or 32 days.
If you exploit expect to be punished for it, if you encourage others to exploit expect to be punished for it. If you consistently exploit and get punished eventually you will be perma banned.
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There’s always an advantage in exploiting, even if stuff gets reverted there will often still be more left of the exploited stuff than if you farmed it without exploiting.
I once used to wintrade my honor level to 650 with 4 40 man raids, made about 600 levels in 3 days until they hotfixed it. No bugs were involved though, we only kept killing each other. What I’ve realized though, apparently wintrading bloody coins on timeless isle or wintrading honorable kills is completely fine but certain other thinhs aren’t since the honor levels got reverted
Seems like the level exploit is one that the don’t care enough to investigate.
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Ah well, joke is on them. They play a game they barely like playing (as I read some of the excuses) ![:joy:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/joy.png?v=6" ":joy:")
. Some will arguably call this an addiction.
Anyways, if I want to level something - I do it. No matter how long it takes.
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At the start of legion i stumbled across people mass mining basilisks down in suramar for felslate, decided to join in and got banned a day or 2 later for a month. I got an email saying whilst my ban was in progress, they would remove all my gold and ores.
Didn’t think i deserved it but sucked it up, anyway 4 days later i got an email telling me the ban was wrong and they gave me a months free game time.I still had all the felslate when i logged in aswell, thousands of it.
No rollbacks will happen to these people, the ban is pretty much the final straw and if punishments dont happen at the time, nothing will happen after.
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Some got 2, and some 30 days. Also, in case of a future offenses, previous bans would surely affect punishment, and in some cases could lead to perma bans. So yes, exploit early, exploit often, but keep in mind that in the end it’s possible to lose your account.
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I think we should not discuss this topic anymore, banhammer has gone out, but I think that everyone who complains about ban is an irresponsible kid who does not understand the idea of cheating
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Well It’s entierly up to the indivdual. But breaking the Terms of Use will always leave a mark on your account, even i fit only resulted in a warning or 24 hour suspension.
Many try to deflect a bans importance and severeity by mentioning other exploits which never broke the ToU. If this glitch whould had been;
You use multiple potions from a single stack but without any tampering, making it seem like it’s just meant to function that way. Then Blizzard whould had nothing to back it up as a ToU breach. Then all blizzard could have done was a roll back of levels or no punishment at all. It whould have been considered a good faith exploit.
In the case with this bug however you needed to intentionally split the stack up. Hence you had to manually tamper to reproduce the bug. This are not considered “in good faith” and thus break the ToU.
Same with many other bugs such as “infinity loops”, areas with super fast respawns that generate skins/ore etc. Considering many areas since at least legion have had the faster respawn or even instant respawns, if many players are grinding in the same area. This always make these “infinity loops” often counted as good faith even if the end result whould break the ToU.
That’s why Eggs example of mass mining felslate of basilisks, was acctually not a bannable offence and corrected upon further investigation.
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tl:dr OP is salty others exploited and didn’t get punished enough to satisfy them.
Look the exploit wasn’t THAT big of a deal, it didn’t give anyone some huge unfair advantage, it was partially a mistake on blizzards end and in the end it didn’t hurt anybody, a 2-31 days ban is justified according to blizzard who is the developer of the game and we have to accept their rule, I’m pretty sure they know how to handle it.
Threatening to heavily use any found exploit out of spite is a childish behavior.
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First warning’s (almost) free.
But it’s just the first.
Its just blizzard being too lazy to rollback because its not that easy to do. So instead looking for the thief’s haul they just let him have it. Its an understandable decision, but terrible long term as you can imagine
For those who got 2 day ban it was probably their first offence, didn’t use it for long time (i remember someone telling who got 2 day ban they went from 27 to 38 and then stopped using the exploit) and didn’t gain that much from it. We don’t yet know if any gains will be taken away from those who got longer bans, but we will see. I would assume they at least remove heritage armor (if gained via exploited character).
I think if someone got from 20 to 30 using this exploit and he got 2 days ban there is no need to rollback because he could ding 20-30 in 2-3 hours using just heirlooms so he wasted more time waiting for ban to be removed than saved using exploit.
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How childish it is to ask for longer punishment at this point.
Ppl who got 2 days not done that much leveling with the pots. I know one person, who maybe leveled up 12 lvls at lowish levels, maybe around 60.
Now that 2 day they could have leveled up that much anyway or even more. So i think its pretty fair punishment.
Maybe care about more important things and not something you have nothing to do with.
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Blizzard doesn’t seem to care about the advantage players get as much as they care about sending a message to the players that they’re not in control of their characters/account. They’ll potentially ban thousands of people for exploiting the game, but not rollback the characters. They didn’t even bother telling people not to exploit the potion bug for 2 days before they actually fixed it and banned everyone.
If you ask me, that’s just as scummy, if not more than the player’s abuse of the broken mechanic.
I wouldn’t have done a roll back, id have removed every coin from their account and everything in their bank and bags.
That’d stop cheaters real quick
in fairness, I actually fully agree with you on this one … they should have made an ingame message about it and banned from that moment on … you can click off buffs, and they should have told you to do that.
They didn’t, so I presume that’s why no rollback.
Another victory for blizzards ineptitude.
No player is injured by a blizzard, stop writing because you’re just falling, over 99% of the population knew that doing it is wrong so the blizzard did not have to explain a few fraudsters to stop doing it, if somebody did not know by some miracle that cheating and gaining an advantage over other players is forbidden that will have a lesson.
Some people here are like:
- Mom bwaaah!! Sniff sniff, they want to put me in jail!!
- Why they want to put you in jail Little Jimmy?
- Because i robbed a shop bwaaah / cry cry cry
and here it is:
- They shouldn’t put you in jail because they didn’t tell you that robbing a shop have it’s consequences.
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