Age of Conan

Cheating is cheating, though I'd have to say this early on it's probably not wise to go banning accounts. The game will have more exploitable mechanics. Makes much more sense to keep the exploiting types around to help discover more of them. Either that or I've been watching too much of "The Wire" lately.

Originally posted by euangelion

Twelve of my WoW friends moved over there and took advantage of the money exploit while it lasted, they had their guild bank emptied... which only half was from exploit, their personal bank emptied, all of their buddy list investigated, their accounts down for investigation, and emails from funcom that they may be banned. Talk about harsh.

Are you seriously questioning WHY they had their things taken away? SERIOUSLY? In WoW they would have just been banned alltogether, and you're wondering why they had their bank emptied? You should be happy that's all that happened.

If you cheat (and don't say they didn't... You used the word " exploit " yourself ) there will be consequences. Don't be an idiot and do it in the first place. It's not difficult to do....

Lol @ them though, hahahahahaha. Good for funcom.

Originally posted by euangelion

How is it cheating? It was release version gameplay mechanics that they took advantage of... seriously it's a game. They didn't clear out Bank of America. I agree the gold they made should be taken but they should not be banned and they should not be bankrupt. The bug is fixed, it's not like they are gold farmers continuing to sell gold on ebay or anything.

That's kind of the definition of exploiting right there and that is against the ToS. Exploiting IS using in game mechanics for purposes other than their intended use for gain.

Originally posted by skeaser

Originally posted by euangelion

How is it cheating? It was release version gameplay mechanics that they took advantage of... seriously it's a game. They didn't clear out Bank of America. I agree the gold they made should be taken but they should not be banned and they should not be bankrupt. The bug is fixed, it's not like they are gold farmers continuing to sell gold on ebay or anything.

That's kind of the definition of exploiting right there and that is against the ToS. Exploiting IS using in game mechanics for purposes other than their intended use for gain.

Agreed.

Originally posted by euangelion

I realize it's a business, I'm actually in a similar industry. However it's not very customer friendly to ban people for taking advantage of your mistakes... better to thank them for finding the bug and take the items that were a part of the bug.  However if the were playing just to make RL money off ebay with the exploits that's a different story.

Really Funcom don't really have any other option than to ban your friends since they WILLINGLY took advantage of an exploit. The "it's just a game" line don't flywith me, a rule is a rule, is a rule.

People PAY for this game every month, exploiters are BAD for in game economics.

The exploiters got what the deserved. It's cheating plain and simply. I just wish they'd take a look at the players who exploited the bugged quest(s) to level up fast, ban or revert their toon to lvl20.

i have a feeling they're mostly wiping out banks because if they ban all the exploiters, it'll probably cut the entire conan population by half

Originally posted by Narug

This is a time where I wished MMO companies had a list that could be shared and easily accessible amongst them.  Exploiters could be possibly stopped from ruining other games with their destructive ways.

*mumbles at the exploiters for being the cause of delaying his bank usage*

Anyhow.  Congratulations to Funcom for getting rid of some exploiters at least.

Great idea. The games industry could set up an organisation that handled all this. Every time someone gets banned from a game they send all available information to that organisation so that other developers just need to ask for a copy so that the banned person can't even start a subscription in the first place.

Regardless what your views are on exploiting the fact is this game should never have been shipped with these major types of bugs.  It's poor programming on Funcom's part.   Fanboys would never point the finger at funcom for this mess!