Bags, like all items, have item IDs for a reason. People seem to forget that ultimately exploits are Blizzard's fault and many people who don't even realize something is wrong get punished. Yes, scum is the word.Azrile wrote:The problem is there was another major exploit going on that involved opening a lot of bags in a very short amount of time. Blizzard probably rapidly applied a hotfix that checked for people opening a lot of bags and unfortunately, pet collectors had a more legitimate reason for doing it but were caught up in their initial hotfix.Spyro wrote:Wow, Blizzard can be really scummy sometimes.
I can sympathize with Blizzard a bit because from what I heard, people were able to make 100ks of gold in a few minutes.. Blizzard had to act fast before that money got spread around the server and became untraceable. They probably didn´t have time to think of all the possibilities, they just wanted to tag-ban the people doing the gold exploit fast. The amount of gold that was being exploited was extreme enough to screw up servers for a long time if they couldn´t stop it fast.
Did anyone else get banned?
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Re: Did anyone else get banned?
I just got a new email from Blizzard apologizing again. They told me they would be awarding the game time back onto my account.
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Tatra, that's not what exploiting is. People simply waited to open their bags, nothing is wrong with that. That's like saying waiting to buy something with valor points, when you know the price is going to drop, is exploiting the game. They were obviously in the right, or blizzard would not have overturned their appeals. No need to be rude to people.
Re: Did anyone else get banned?
How many people who are still baned used the Flight Path method to get a Minfernal?
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Yikes, did they fix this? I stumbled across this thread minutes after I opened all 19 bags back-to-back from the dailies ![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif)
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I guess you are going to help us find out!Catalytic wrote:Yikes, did they fix this? I stumbled across this thread minutes after I opened all 19 bags back-to-back from the dailies
I have a feeling that the algorithm was total possible in a day plus one to flag. People who got banned had quite a few saved up, and most likely did their normal dailies as well the first day. Please correct me if I'm wrong, those who drew the ire of the banstick!
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