Roll back poll.

xarfox wrote: »

Actually these can be traced.

And then what? Ban these people one at a time? A process that will take forever, over a bug that should have been caught in the first place, or at least shut down the servers within an hour after maintenance (when even I knew there was a problem).

What about all of those people who suddenly got coin rich trading Gold, at the ridiculous prices it was, who suddenly have all of their skills and just about anything else you can get from NPCs (Nice Stack of Perfect Gems they have). To put it simply, wheres my 200million coins? I will gladly pay the same 20$ or less that they payed (and then just cheated everyone else who was selling gold in AH at the time, who wasn't around to exploit the situation). As someone who didn't participate in this whole thing I think I'm right to feel cheated, and short of rolling this back I don't see any solution that won't make me and many others that I know quit this game.

stormmeeuw wrote: »

This is not true.
Rollback would make this disastrous update undone, including ALL bugs.
Game would at least run as it was, waiting for a hopefully more succesfull next update.

It looks like rollback is not an option for PWI.

A most interesting and exciting day for when you happen to study ingame economics b:laugh

Let me put it a different way then, some clients were stuck in other areas before this last patch and a few other bugs that needed fixing....So they have to not only rollback the server , but fix those issues as well.

This would make for a longer downtime.

As for in game economics, I do believe I said a rollback would fix that issue.

Well roll back or not i don't like ANYONE messing around with my stuff be it game coins exp or anything what so ever .... Mistake made by programmers Not by us specifically me.... So you guys should know whom to hunt down and whom not to...... And yeah if i loose a single thing after roll back am surely leaving this game for good.... And trust me many more will do the same

Options:

#1: Ban all the accounts that exploited the bug, no rollback.

#2: Say "awe please dont try to hide bugs that makes you insanely rich" and rollback till before it started.

Either way a large portion of the population will be unhappy. Of course the impact of the massive cash influx spread FAR wider than the original abusers, so its almost imposible to deal with this on a "personal" level. So everyone gets equally punished, or you make exmaples of the original cheaters to deter future incidents and let the economy gradually stabalize.

Exactly, my friend made 23 mil out of 10 gold, but doesn't like it still, was just messin around lol, and i think no one actually knows yet what exactly or why exactly this happened, i would like to know plz.

either way, that gold pobably has propigated throughout servers
it would have been used in trades for other items, used to buy from npcs, et cetera.
while i personally detest this wait i want the game to be a level playing field

There need to be rollback. 1 day of playing isn't worth the destruction of economy.

Nah, won't be 80%, it will be the honest portion of the game who won't exploit an obvious bug. It will be those people that normally buy Zen and were not able or willing to get enough "bang for their buck", they will find that all their past CS expenditures were completely meaningless when compared to today's gold trading. Simply, those who were cheated.


This poll should have a couple more options that I think will make the right course of action a little clearer:

3. Yes, Roll it back or I'm quitting.
4. No, don't roll it back because I exploited the bug directly or indirectly.

I was a GM on another Game sorta like this. just about everything.. can be tracked, it will take a few mins.... if this game uses an SQL type database it can be searched very easy. In this old game i could search a players name (code) and pull up char Stats, storage items, every item in his inventory all the Trades, Drop items (each item was assigned an unique number), ECT. so once i found the item in question I could then search the Item via the number and pull up who got the item as a drop 6 months ago. who he/she sold it to. who that person dropped it to. and who added shards to it. So don't think you can get away with cheating the system if the GM's have the time to spend researching then you will get caught.

Simple example. Query the database with 10mil+ coins on account. then 2nd query who was active the last 20 hours, hopefully the number of accounts will be small. then search through each transaction that person made and who they traded with ect.

So if u created an account then traded your main 150k to buy gold and then started exploiting the game system then.. you can be caught.

plus people didn't realize that each time they logged in there IP was stored in the database. Its so easy to catch people cheating and hacking/ exploiting on there noob char.

And i Hope they roll back the server. I've seen what excess coins can do to game servers..

It was never about selling the gold at high prices, but trading an item bought with gold, for 1mil/gold. And some people accumulating ridiculous amounts of gold.

Soooo fix the damn item? XD

Anyone have word if they're even going to do a roll back? I seen a post by a gm or something saying they care about the economy XD lolz?

I think I saw post saying they're not doing a rollback, but since I can't find it anymore, I can't be sure if that's the case. They might've just changed their minds and edited or deleted it. That, or I was seeing things.
EDIT:Although it said they are freezing the accounts with suspicious financial activity or sth.

In the long run I think its best to fix this issue as soon as possible because later on new and more complicated issues will come fourth. Plus is a win/win thing if we do get the roll back. Our money is back, downfall is the exp and things we've done within that time. But that can be gained back within time.b:pleased

yes i herd that in game that they will look into all the transaction logs that ppl made etc wheter thru trade or gold whatever there looking into that too and guarentee a crackdown