Comments on: GW2: Anet hard at work fixing overpopulation

By: Bosstiger

Bosstiger — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:27:55 +0000

By: Dà Chéng

Dà Chéng — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:03:08 +0000

Man, there’s a terrible exploit in World of Warcraft! Engineering vendor Zan Shivsproket is selling the Schematic: Gnomish Cloaking Device for a mere 24 silver. This schematic sells at auction, according to the undermine journal, for 250-500 gold. Clearly Zan’s price is a bug, and anyone buying from him is exploiting. I expect Blizzard to hand out the permabans Real Soon Now.

By: whatever

whatever — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:21:25 +0000

It’s interesting how actually bad developers/companies who start using the “TOS” to grossly bully their player-base will be accepted immediately, and indeed complainers will be shouted down. But stopping over the top excessive exploitation will get the exact opposite reaction.

Scammers admire bigger scammers.

Fair people admire people who are more fair.

+50 time exploit? You are ruining the game’s economy. You are NOT using it for personal use, or even your guild. Quit being a liar. You are selling it. Maybe even RMT. You are directly wrecking the economy.

PERMA-BAN

Likewise, they are being “nice” to people using stupid bots to level their own characters. The games just starting and that’s the way some people want to “play” it. Now the farming-bots and character sell bots? Well, that is a problem. It wrecks the economy.

PERMA-BAN

Scammers admire bigger scammers.

Fair people admire people who are more fair.

You know.

By: Bristal

Bristal — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:53:55 +0000

“This isn’t about “protecting the game” or “building communities”, it’s about protecting the cash shop.”

So, have we found a major problem/difference between F2P and subs MMOs? Clearly it impacts the relationship between players and developers. Is it possible to have a F2P sandbox, where players could directly impact cash shop income? Does the presence of RMT create a climate for an MMO police state?

By: Bristal

Bristal — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:37:14 +0000

You might need to supply a reference or two proving that very narrow definition.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:27:39 +0000

This is one of those cases where local law varies wildly. Here it’s actually legally binding (and if the shelf price doesnt’ match the checkout price, you pay the lower of the two). I should’ve been more precise and added a “here”.

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:15:43 +0000

In the UK at least, that's not actually the case. It's widely believed (by the public) that in store pricing is legally binding but if the shop can show they made a mistake, they're not required to stick to it. Usually they do though, to avoid bad publicity. Technically, the displayed price is "an invitation to treat" (I used to volunteer at a place that advised people on consumer rights.)

By: coppertopper

coppertopper — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:01:08 +0000

Those players will just go back to Eve and Darkfail so no big loss.

By: Dril

Dril — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:29:09 +0000

They should probably ban people who don’t know the difference between actual exploiting and simply taking advantage of ANet missing a couple of 0s.

That way, we’ll remove people are undesirable and stupid.

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