FC Glitch Update

RageKill - Lost City

I am pretty sure shelly is just upset as everyone else is. They avoid abusing the glitch while others do it. Others get large advantage, and get a slap on the wrist.

Then there is no actual action taken against them besides a dog and pony show now being put on by PWI staff to hopefully suppress the people who kept asking what action was going to be taken. They had to do something, but chose a laughable response to the blatant glitching.

We all know that the most severe glitchers weren't banned. It's being proven. We all know that 7 days it just a vacation, and not a punishment. WAY TO GO PWI.

-_- i shoulda glitched. i am such a lazy leveler.

eviltwin48415

YOu know Shelly... I have a new found respect for you. YOu aren't the toon I thought you were. I'm sorry for making fun of you in the forums. I now see that you are as angry as the rest of us. Maybe, in another war, or guild or two... we can even become guildmates and fight along side one another.

See ya in the MMORPGverse b:bye ~skoggy

GumyBear - Raging Tide

When there is a new glitch, I'm going to abuse the hell out of it b:victory b:victory b:victory A week ban b:chuckle Please!

PedroSner - Heavens Tear

105 Sins owning TW on LC Server ...LOL Epic ...
I World quested to 106 b:surrender so the 105 sins don't sound a problem LOL..Epic TW's going on that server..b:victoryb:pleased

SilverCleric - Lost City

RageKill - Lost City wrote: »

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-_- i shoulda glitched. i am such a lazy leveler.

I feel your pain man.... b:sweat

eviltwin48415 wrote: »

YOu know Shelly... I have a new found respect for you. YOu aren't the toon I thought you were. I'm sorry for making fun of you in the forums. I now see that you are as angry as the rest of us. Maybe, in another war, or guild or two... we can even become guildmates and fight along side one another.

See ya in the MMORPGverse b:bye ~skoggy

I don't think Shelly is the only mod thats upset with this.... just saying... b:lipcurl

Traz - Dreamweaver

frankieraye wrote: »

Hey all,


As you many of you know, there was a major glitch last year that allowed players to level up much more quickly than was normally possible. It involved performing certain abilities on one of the Frostcovered City bosses, which caused it to spawn hundreds of minibosses instead of just two, which was the normal amount spawned.

Although it was immediately deemed a bannable offense, as it violated term 11(k) of our Terms of Service, many players continued to exploit this glitch throughout the four months that it existed on our servers.

Today, the very worst offenders of this glitch exploitation have been given a temporary ban on their characters. They have also been removed from the PWI Rankings Page. While the case has been made that more people should have been banned, and permanently, for their transgressions, the fact is that we at PWE must take some of the blame for the glitch existing for as long as it did (4 months). For this reason we will not be banning anyone permanently for taking part in the exploitation.

We apologize for the glitch lasting as long as it did, and for the amount of time it took to take action against those who took advantage of it. The state of PWI is very important to us, and we thank you for your patience and support as we do what we can to keep the game running as smoothly as possible.


-The PWI Team

So you banned all the people that glitched and removed them from the rankings.... and there are still 7 pages of 105s

F O R * * * * S A K E

-_-

krisnda

SilverCleric - Lost City wrote: »

I feel your pain man.... b:sweat



I don't think Shelly is the only mod thats upset with this.... just saying... b:lipcurl

Thanks for saying what I would of yelled.

No words can emulate what most of us feel about this situation. It's just ludicrous.

Foxy_Fiona - Heavens Tear

Traz - Dreamweaver wrote: »

So you banned all the people that glitched and removed them from the rankings.... and there are still 7 pages of 105s

F O R * * * * S A K E

-_-

I was thinking the same exact thing a few minutes ago when I got around to looking at the rankings. I think they pulled names out of a hat and decided to feed us some bull**** excuse about giving the worst offenders a 7 day vacation.

Either give them all a vacation or don't give anybody one. It looks sloppy as hell.

Ariella_ - Lost City

davebold wrote: »

they need some form of income

This.

Ban me for 7 days so I can be 105!! Please??

That should be an option.

Tsukyini - Raging Tide

Traz - Dreamweaver wrote: »

So you banned all the people that glitched and removed them from the rankings.... and there are still 7 pages of 105s

F O R * * * * S A K E

-_-

There is almost an entire page of 105 clerics.... I somehow doubt even one of them is legit.

It does seem that HT has more naughty clerics than the other servers, though.b:chuckle

Knownase - Heavens Tear

Tsukyini - Raging Tide wrote: »

There is almost an entire page of 105 clerics.... I somehow doubt even one of them is legit.

It does seem that HT has more naughty clerics than the other servers, though.b:chuckle

HT has the most Lv. 105 exploiters if I remember right. Its so bad, if they did ban every 105, the top TW faction would probably die immediately, among a few other key players in other TW factions.

SashaGray - Heavens Tear

frankieraye wrote: »

Hey all,


As you many of you know, there was a major glitch last year that allowed players to level up much more quickly than was normally possible. It involved performing certain abilities on one of the Frostcovered City bosses, which caused it to spawn hundreds of minibosses instead of just two, which was the normal amount spawned.

Although it was immediately deemed a bannable offense, as it violated term 11(k) of our Terms of Service, many players continued to exploit this glitch throughout the four months that it existed on our servers.

Today, the very worst offenders of this glitch exploitation have been given a temporary ban on their characters. They have also been removed from the PWI Rankings Page. While the case has been made that more people should have been banned, and permanently, for their transgressions, the fact is that we at PWE must take some of the blame for the glitch existing for as long as it did (4 months). For this reason we will not be banning anyone permanently for taking part in the exploitation.

We apologize for the glitch lasting as long as it did, and for the amount of time it took to take action against those who took advantage of it. The state of PWI is very important to us, and we thank you for your patience and support as we do what we can to keep the game running as smoothly as possible.


-The PWI Team

pwi trollin again

Traz - Dreamweaver

Knownase - Heavens Tear wrote: »

HT has the most Lv. 105 exploiters if I remember right. Its so bad, if they did ban every 105, the top TW faction would probably die immediately, among a few other key players in other TW factions.

I think most of us would pay to see that happen.

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Mimiroppu - Heavens Tear

Abusing a gameplay changing glitch.... Changing your character's eyes and hair through .ini editing ... = the same punishment?

PWE is taking the blame for the PLAYERS abusing a glitch?

SHUT. EVERYTHING. DOWN.


This game's paid management is officially ****. Instead of actually fixing the problem, we, who did not abuse the glitch, get screwed over with: Being honest and not even abusing the glitch(therefore not receiving the benefits from said glitch) + our exp from the goons getting nerfed to diddly-squat(now FF is **** and not even worth finishing).

Why is it that official game GM teams are so much more terrible than private server GM teams? I don't even play the PWI private servers. I hate hearing how people who are doing this for free treat their players better. You guys get -PAID- to listen to us, help us and enforce the ToS -PROPERLY-. All I am seeing is a disappointed and neglected playerbase, who's low-lives get treated better than the honest players.

I understand we are your cash cow servers, but come on. How long do you think this is going to last before people realize what the hell is going on and leave?

Very pathetic, PWE.

HunterRich - Heavens Tear

Knownase - Heavens Tear wrote: »

The company fears legal action maybe? Or it just makes them look bad.

and announcing what action they are taking doesnt make them look bad considering the action they are taking? there isnt a legit 105 on Heavens Tear, heck before the glitch the highest level was 102, maybe 103, so whats considered a worst offender that got the ban? is it someone who didnt spend any real money on the game yet has a 105 or multiple 101+'s. this is just another failure by PWI to deal with a real problem. how many more months do we need to wait for the secret passage to be fixed again? good thing the pre-sale for a certain game hit recently cause if i hadnt spent the money there i may of made the mistake of spending it here.b:bye

yghb

So many mad people about the penalty goonerz got... (lol)

Ok now let's ban all those who used the Rebirth glitch and Nirvana Talismans. That gave them a huge advantage economically!

And let's ban all those who ever did any kind of glitch, even unconsciously. Oh damn, that's like 90% of all the people here.b:shocked

Or should we just forget about this 105's already? I'm pretty sure all those who qq about the goonerz don't even play actively, and suck at pvp.

Let's face it: Most of the people who glitched to 105 are some of the most hardcore and loyal players PW has. Those who leveled to 105 did it to be able to see most sins (yeah, u lucky 105 sins...). In my opinion that glitch was game balancing and what they should have done is to do an extraordinary exception for this glitch so everyone could use it someday.

Edit: Oh, I had forgotten the ini editers. Then 95% of the people would get banned?

Purple_Eyes - Lost City

it seems to me they banned a few players as scapegoats, mostly sins on LC, so at least we can say this matter is attended and dealt with..?

i wish they could show us competence and provide us some sort of criterion of who were getting punished and why. it just seems to me they picked several 105 sins out of a hat, because sins are disliked in pvp maybe? idk

i suppose 7 days ban is not a sever enough punishment at all but i just hope they could have showed us some consistency in taking action like this. i see those zhen class who made handsome profit from the glitch are running around freely which makes me wonder how my assassin is classified as a worse offender than them?

_Skai_ - Raging Tide

All of the very obvious and "worse" (i.e. abused it the most) FC goons glitchers on RT are all still on the rankings page.

PWI, I'm losing faith in you.

Flamespirit - Dreamweaver

Yeah many of the worst offenders I know are also cash spenders and I agree it would be dumb to do more then a week bann, but the unforgivable part where you will not get anymore of my money from me is ---that they get to keep thier levels.

I hope you guys go bankrupt honestly.

Notion - Lost City

yghb wrote: »

Ok now let's ban all those who used the Rebirth glitch and Nirvana Talismans. That gave them a huge advantage economically!

Edit: Oh, I had forgotten the ini editers. Then 95% of the people would get banned?

No it didn't.

The .ini editors do it, for the most part, to get EG eyes, which looks ****. That's punishment enough for me. They think they look good and in reality look like they have downs.

FrostGlitch - Lost City

You can't always get what you waaaaaant

yghb

Notion - Lost City wrote: »

No it didn't.

The .ini editors do it, for the most part, to get EG eyes, which looks ****. That's punishment enough for me. They think they look good and in reality look like they have downs.

I concur with the EG eyes part, lol. It looks horrible. EG eyes only look good on EG.

And about the other part, I don't know what to say really, since I never did it. b:pleased

Then again, what's the advantage of being 105, besides being able to see members of an op class?

Tsukyini - Raging Tide

yghb wrote: »

Then again, what's the advantage of being 105, besides being able to see members of an op class?

The satisfaction of knowing your character has reached its maximum potential as far as leveling goes.

Knownase - Heavens Tear

Purple_Eyes - Lost City wrote: »

i wish they could show us competence and provide us some sort of criterion of who were getting punished and why. it just seems to me they picked several 105 sins out of a hat, because sins are disliked in pvp maybe? idk

i suppose 7 days ban is not a sever enough punishment at all but i just hope they could have showed us some consistency in taking action like this. i see those zhen class who made handsome profit from the glitch are running around freely which makes me wonder how my assassin is classified as a worse offender than them?

It honestly does seem random, what makes it sad is the following....

Frankieraye wrote: »

Action has been taken on some, and will be taken on more shortly. The fact that the glitch existed and that we were not able to close it up for so long was our own fault, so it doesn't feel right to severely penalize everyone who exploited it. That said, the worst offenders' accounts have been found and will soon be seen to.

This was posted in November of last year. Makes it sound like that already did ban some, and using the word "shortly" is......well.....just check today's date. :P

Source of Quote

frankieraye wrote: »

The worst offenders will be banned in the near future. The list is made up of cash shoppers and non-cash shoppers. We won't be able to disclose the names of those banned, but we will let you know when it happens.

This was posted in January of this year. It sounds like they have a nice list of players that will be receiving a punishment of some sort.

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Overall, I have no words on this. b:chuckle

Metalpuritan - Sanctuary

If I knew then what I know now I sure would have abused it. I sure would have. I will remeber this for future reference. Game staff has no backbone and no drive to do what is right and no way to track offenders. Got it thanks for the heads up PWI staff.

Nahktuul - Archosaur

Bring it back so I can get banned for 7 days after I level to 105 :O Small price to pay for the glory and bragging rights of being 105, ijs.

Why didn't you just roll back their levels instead of temporary ban? -5 levels would be pretty swell to me.

I appreciate the apology, and admission of guilt/blame on PWE's part. I really do. But once again, the glitchers get away barely unscathed.

*sigh* whatever. End of chapter, moving on to the next thing: Database issues.

Imaspy - Lost City

i have a question how about the players who were already 105 legitly doing this exploit they were banned too just trying to help friends. should they really be punished by removing them from the ranking when they were already 105?

Mimiroppu - Heavens Tear

Imaspy - Lost City wrote: »

i have a question how about the players who were already 105 legitly doing this exploit they were banned too just trying to help friends. should they really be punished by removing them from the ranking when they were already 105?

Honestly... If they were helping, they were glitching, too they were an accessory to the crime.

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear

So if they put +11 and +12 orbs on sale in the Boutique... for just the weekend... while the ban is going on...

Tsukyini - Raging Tide

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear wrote: »

So if they put +11 and +12 orbs on sale in the Boutique... for just the weekend... while the ban is going on...

It probably wouldn't matter since I'm sure the people who got temp banned have more than one account.