Its all Doom and gloom in the forums these days. Thought I'd start my own
DOOOOOOOOM! thread.
Time for some dumb DOOM pics :P
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
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This is our next Temporary thread right?
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Especially today with the utter and complete total destruction of the economy that just happened? Yeah. Lots of people want their money back over there.
What exactly happened? Was it just some people using exploits to generate tons of game money, or something more than that?
I see multiple people on their forums advocating a complete server wipe to fix it, which seems rather drastic.
Yeah but with last exploit, it would not surprise me if the do a rollback.
A bug with the gateway system resulted in negative ah listings. People got millions of astral diamonds this way. Thats the punishment if you run a ah with astral diamonds (you can cash them in for Zen).
So yes forums exploded:
Part 1: NW-DMFKR9RPL http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?427711-Brunnen-des-Lichts-Teil-1
Part 2: NW-DLBTN8W28 http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?444281-Brunnen-des-Lichts-Teil-2
Icewind Dale campaign Osthafen sehen & sterben (German)
NW-DMC3IOWAE http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?477201-Osthafen-sehen-amp-sterben
Back to back exploits. Last week it was a glitch in an armor set that when combined with the full bonus allowed the player to one shot any mob or boss in the game. The market quickly got flooded with max level gear for dirt cheap.
Today, a money dupe went viral. Now there are countless players with hundreds of millions of Astral Diamonds (Their version of Questionite). Within hours every single Zen was bought off the exchange and the Auction house was pretty much all but cleaned out of anything of value.
Edit: I should read. :P
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PS the Zen from NWO can be transfered to CO right?
Well, if they do a complete wipe, I don't think I'll be returning to that game. It was fun while there were new things to explore, but I really don't feel like doing that all over again.
Nope. Zen can't be transfered between games.
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Negative. Just like with any game, once its in, its in for life.
EDIT : Oh yeah thanks Jon and Rokuro, double ninja on me.
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Too late, it has been for years, by the long lasting aftereffects of the same problem.
Its like trying to fight the billionaire market while still being a wage slave.
Yeah, it's funny until Neverwinter bombs financially. A Cryptic game will end up on the chopping block, but it sure as $#!^ ain't gonna be property of CBS. I have a hard time seeing how CO survives if a failed NW launch busts Cryptic's budget.
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The only hope we even have at all, is if NWO is a huge sweeping success, and that CO gets a trickle of that revenue returned back to it's development. You know, since CO's development and players helped to get STO and NWO made at all.
If NWO bombs or dies out super early due to this, It won't be good for any of us in any Cryptic Engine game.
This whole debacle makes the "Dr. Newbton" server outtage accident in Early Sept, 2009 look like the truly minor mistake it was.
This is much more like a Disaster.
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That's what you get for baiting people into buying the Founder's pack for early beta access and then allowing for such a horrendous exploit to escape through the cracks while pissing off the very people who bought the Founder's pack out of good faith.
It was never in my interest to see NWN fail in any way even though I'm disgruntled toward it getting development priority. It was more of a feeling of indifference. It's quite unfortunate that something like this has happened. Cryptic is in a damned-if-they-do, damned-if they don't position. Whether they perform a roll-back or not, either result is going to suck for them.
When normal sharks just wont cut it :P
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
is that with the AH going into negative time. I had someone on trade complaining about losing an auction after the timer should have run out. The timer was still running 10 minutes after it should have finished.
He wasn't going to report it, so I sent a forum message to the CM Destrev(whatever his name is) adn told them the timer was stuffed.
and according to this person,
http://neverwinterfailed.blogspot.com.au/
bug tickets are being ignored and the ticketing system isn't working
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Honestly this is exactly why I don't preorder or buy founders packs for games these days. I've seen far too many botched launches and too many developers hiding behind the "beta" tag. "Beta" these days seems to mean they get their cake and eat it too. Free QA testing while earning their bucks while people get funneled into a cash shop for a half complete games only to be frustrated even further by constant server outages and now a rollback. If you're still in beta, you shouldn't be selling anything to anyone precisely based on the fact that the game is still in 'beta' and thus, still in testing. It takes a giant leap of faith to pre-order or purchase a founders pack, this type of thing is not how you instill that level of trust in your customers. i wish I could say that as someone whom has played all of Cryptic's games at some point that this type of debacle is uncommon, but given the state of CO, the handling of NW under PWE, it really does not come as a shock, sadly.
That wont fix anything....the person who decided the 7 hour rollback needs their head checking for mental problems.
The only way to fix that problem without pissin off the whole playerbase is simple. Dont wipe characters, dont rollback, just introduce a new currency, and slowly make the current one absolutely worthless.
But what do i know! Its not like i know how to fix all of Cryptics problems... OH WAIT!! I do.
According to the blog link provided by chaelk, this same bug was actually around in STO too?
It was brought over to NWO?
Are you kidding me?
Good grief, the incompetence being displayed here from Cryptic is mind-numbing.
It is not the proprietor's responsibility to be up front and genuine about sales. Just look at all the people of questionable ethics who fill the advertising/marketing jobs.
There is an old saying out there coined in ancient Latin "caveat emptor"...let the buyer
beware.
Apparently there's a lot of people willing to spend money on a beta. not my style, but hey.
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Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Wow, that's a hella serious bug.
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The rollback should help the worst carnage to the overall economy -- it wasn't great before, but the game can recover.
This is a reasonable solution that balances minimal impact on legitimate users, cleaning up the results of the bug, and reasonable amount of time and development -- there are more complex ways that might do more to minimize impact and clean up the results, but that would take more time and then require additional testing.
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
That it was a STO bug already, that some folks are reporting this had been a bug since day 1, that apparently it's been reported since closed beta and ignored... Yeah, that's ... well, that's Cryptic for you.
Wicks and Things: NW-DI4FMZRR4 : The Fenwick merchant family has lost a caravan! Can you help?
Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?
Into the Fen Wood: NW-DL89DRG7B : Enter the heart of the forest. Can you discover the secret of the Fen Wood?
Funny, I decided out of the blue that day to try trading on the market, and made about 10k in no time (I know that is small potatoes). I really didn't know what was going on, I was just making money