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dezstravus
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Hey All,
We currently are in the process of taking action against a subset of accounts that were confirmed to have utilized exploits that affected the game balance or economy.
These accounts may be banned, temporarily or permanently, depending on the severity of exploit utilization. Anyone who is affected by this will receive notification via email.
While we have taken all precautions necessary to ensure that no false positives made it into our final list of accounts to take action against, we do acknowledge that some players who were banned may wish to follow up with us. If you had an account banned and wish to escalate the issue to our support team, please create a ticket at support.perfectworld.com or send an email to customerservice@perfectworld.com
Please note that forum discussions about specific accounts being banned is against our forum guidelines, thus any threads on the topic may be closed. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Thank you for your patience and support while we continue to do everything in our power to ensure that Neverwinter remains a fair and balanced game experience.
-Dezstravus and the Neverwinter Team
Update 1030AM Pacific Time: This is related to two specific bugs that allowed players to defeat bosses at a rate that was higher than intended, or without the intended challenge using a one-hit-kill exploit. It is not related to Astral Diamond/Gateway issue that was identified earlier today. For more information regarding that issue, please see this thread.
We currently are in the process of taking action against a subset of accounts that were confirmed to have utilized exploits that affected the game balance or economy.
These accounts may be banned, temporarily or permanently, depending on the severity of exploit utilization. Anyone who is affected by this will receive notification via email.
While we have taken all precautions necessary to ensure that no false positives made it into our final list of accounts to take action against, we do acknowledge that some players who were banned may wish to follow up with us. If you had an account banned and wish to escalate the issue to our support team, please create a ticket at support.perfectworld.com or send an email to customerservice@perfectworld.com
Please note that forum discussions about specific accounts being banned is against our forum guidelines, thus any threads on the topic may be closed. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Thank you for your patience and support while we continue to do everything in our power to ensure that Neverwinter remains a fair and balanced game experience.
-Dezstravus and the Neverwinter Team
Update 1030AM Pacific Time: This is related to two specific bugs that allowed players to defeat bosses at a rate that was higher than intended, or without the intended challenge using a one-hit-kill exploit. It is not related to Astral Diamond/Gateway issue that was identified earlier today. For more information regarding that issue, please see this thread.
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It won't. Only way to normalize it is with a complete wipe, but PW/Cryptic are too greedy/lazy to do this as proven by Reddit.
And Reddit strikes again. This game is dead. Absolutely no way to fix it now. People have billions of AD and bought out all the Zen. Wipe, no wipe - you already lost and NWO goes on record as the biggest fail in MMO history.
If I was a HotN player or Guardian, I would try for a class action law suit.
It means a lot. For one thing it removes much of the artificially inflated currency and items from the game. Obviously not all, but some. Also it removes that players account. Sure, it may be free to create another one, but you lose any zen purchases, all your gear, and have to start fresh. We see the same thing in other free to play games and banning is effective and still very painful in FTP games. Just check out the league of legends tribunal forum if you don't believe me. People freak over losing an account, free or not.
Love the game though
CC
Pretty sure I didn't recieve an email for being banned. (This is my friend's account)
The time for wipes has passed. If something bad enough happens, we may see a short rollback, but for issues like this they will just snipe specific accounts.
And this is why the game will never be the big success it could be...
Your company should really re-think this option
The guy on the aforementioned reddit link only go three days.
his actions WEREN'T severe???????
Please explain, cryptic.
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They would lose so many more players if they do a wipe now than they have lost because of exploits. If you think otherwise you aren't to bright. Its a very small portion of the player base that actually use the forums and even know an exploit is the reason things are as expensive as they are. But if they logged in one day to find a character wipe after being told there would be no more they would instantly uninstall the game. I know I would along with a chargeback on every single dollar I had spent even if they "refunded" it.
However all that said most of the exploiters had to have gotten a 3day ban which is pathetic. One of them is a popular streamer who exploited the **** out of the game and still has the balls to act as if he did nothing wrong. But of course if they perma ban him they would probably lose 1k or more players so you know that wont happen.
No and if they wipe the game you owe me and every other player who has never exploited $300,000 each in compensation because you asked for the wipe.
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They said they are reviewing. At a guess everyone identified as using the exploit was flagged for the 3 day ban. those who research indicate abused it more than a couple of times will likely find a second ban letter following this one.
And people didn't believe me when I told them how Cryptic has always handled exploits. First they don't talk about fight club. Second they don't actively do anything about fight club until they can shut it down. Third after fight club is shut down they go after the people who attended fight club. Last they never ever talk about fight club.
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Neverwinter Thieves Guild
Yup, instead of wiping the servers, wipe every account linked to an IP that's been flagged as an exploiter.
The "save your computer" and one time codes that Cryptic use make it extremely easy for them to spot alt accounts.
Aha! That is a really clever idea!
I couldn't see how bans of any kind could be effective, because by now, most of the exploiters have moved their ill gotten gains to alts. But if the alts were also banned, then that would be a nice sting in the tail
strange how at that time, the forums were the same as now, lol.
guess now neverwinter will die out soon, glad i didnt spend any cash, losers r those who did, lol. funny that cash shoppers will never leave a dying game simply cuz they would feel like an idiot for spending cash in the first place,... funny how stubbornness and unnecessary pride gets in
P.S Good bye!! waiting on elder scroll
Except multiple people can end up using the same IP since an IP is not unique.
I played raiderz, i even bought the elite pack, though i left the game when i capped the max lvl and after weeks and weeks of waiting there was nothing to do on game i migrated on another game brand new. There was exploiters on Raiderz as well but they got permaban which i wish would happen here as well.
I don't regret my purchase on Raiderz and i can't stand people like you who voice out loud they won't spend but if they get the chance they would exploit the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> out of a game to get any small advantage they can. So don't let the door hit your buttocs when you get out...nobody will miss ya anyway.
Didnt even get any answers when I petitioned the glitches and buggs either
Ture man, I dind't know there are exploit(s) going on, only that there are, very greed ppl on ah who have enought rl money inested into the game to manipultae the 'market' with their buddys, same as rl. I usually get to know thing late, like the gf one hit exploit i just heard some hours before the new patch got applied, which is solved that problem. And also, I think that to play civilized, and comradely(sicne mmo i think should be about massive multiplayer, not massive multi-selfish-player)a game wort it waay much better than spending hours, and your and the games good reputation on that to find things to exploit, to cheat And then cartel and smuggle with it. This kind of pepole just the worst scum and rl rotting from their kind, like working in a government and stealing from inside, the money payd by the working, 'blue collar' ppl. This is why Blizzard had to create a whole department, an inside company to maintain it is security. Do you think they were happy to do it and spend enormous amount of work and money on it? No. It was because of that scum kind o ppl again. If everyone be able to play sophsiticated, normally then we wouldnt't need that kind of security Blizz and the battlenet hasn now. And for any company it is very aggravating to their good reputation, since everyone know that bad news travels faster than good ones.
But sadly now tor profit from a game and to have a perfect security against cheaters and immatures (trolls) is somewhat impossibble.
SInce an mmo need a massive amount of players to profit and evolve. Especially a f2p is a "hard wood" business model imho, have higher risk than the others. I think that the best will be to have a trial/starter so players can try the game (that why i never going to buy gw2, i do not pay for something i didnt tried, its like buying a shirt what you didnt tried up just saw on a mannequin) and the game itsef to be 'pay once' like sc2 or d3, and of cours there will be expansitions. In that system i dont feel that i "have to" play, to not fall back in the game. In subscribing system i always feel that "the clock is ticking".
About security in concrete? Im no it or tech expert but it think it is a good star to track ip-s and emails too, also to log everything, yes as much as possible, so you can later seracu on anything, and have a "proof".
First and foremost, Cryptic has no obligation to tell any of us about ANY disciplinary measures they take, and very likely never will. The post we got? That's all we'll ever hear about it, guaranteed.
Also consider, if we, the forumites know that the banned offenders are laughing about their punishments, is it not very likely that Cryptic does as well? Is it also very likely that they will indeed hand out heavier punishments and not tell us a darn thing?
It says in the ToS this:
Highlighted pertinent parts. Just by being here or in the game you're agreeing to this. Personally, I think they're not done with these jackwads. I hope they aren't. But they certainly don't have to tell any of us if they are or are not. And we agree to it by being here.
Occam's Razor makes the cutting clean.