Alex Supply and Salvage Cheating- Accounts Not Banned?

[Pixela]

While on the subject, can an admin pass this along.

Make blue magic spells only castable if you are actually on blue mage. There are 3rd party apps that let any job cast them, it blows my mind that you would not lock that in the code.

[Spectreman]

To be honest, most of the shells I joined over the years were out of necessity. I flat out hated the leaders of quite a few of them. I got lumped in with complete sociopaths just so I could get a piece of gear. I like linkshells as a social piece of the game when they are just to chat / hangout with like minded people. When they become a necessity just to play the game, they start to suck. So, I don't necessarily see the breaking of a bunch of event shells as a bad thing.

The shell I'm in now does events, but they aren't required and I can get the gear I want without the shell. I like that. If the game required me to do everything with them, it would probably be a much different story.

Exacty my thoughts. People who miss being bossed around to get content they were paying for need psycological treatment. I'm having much more fun NOW in the game because i join linkshells just to chat and do events occasionaly, when i want, for myself or mostly to help others.

Not for stupid points to be able to get some gear in the end, should the linkshell leader decide i'm worth of it.

[Jake]

So... does SE ever intend to do anything about this? Or are they just going to sit idly by as people amass fortunes, both in real life and in-game, in their game? If they have any self-respect as a company they should act soon. Otherwise everyone will know any Square Enix game is free to be exploited as your own personal cash cow. I've personally known some English, North American players that have made $100,000 real-life money RMTing gil they've hacked in-game. How do we escalate this thread to an admin/mod so the developers know about it and do something?

[Redbeam]

It's been patched, so nobody is able to do those things in their game using those methods anymore. Not sure how that = doing nothing

[Perrier]

It's been patched, so nobody is able to do those things in their game using those methods anymore. Not sure how that = doing nothing

Accounts which hacked the game being briefly suspended and coming back to all their gil, mythics, and leftover Alex = doing nothing.

SE thinking they've responded even remotely appropriately and sufficiently to this exploit is a laugh and a half.

[FrankReynolds]

Maybe SE gets a cut from the major RMT companies to keep this sort of thing going.

[Redbeam]

Accounts which hacked the game being briefly suspended and coming back to all their gil, mythics, and leftover Alex = doing nothing.

SE thinking they've responded even remotely appropriately and sufficiently to this exploit is a laugh and a half.

There's a big diff between appropriately and nothing. Preventing future abuse of said tactic =/= nothing; that is unless we're all speaking different languages here

[Perrier]

There's a big diff between appropriately and nothing. Preventing future abuse of said tactic =/= nothing; that is unless we're all speaking different languages here

Cheating is bad because it gives cheaters an unfair advantage. In this case, that advantage was in the form of easy mythic weapons and gil. Nothing has been done to remove mythic weapons and gil from people who cheated to get them, therefore they maintain an advantage over the players who did not cheat, therefore nothing has been done about the cheating.

[Redbeam]

They prevented said advantage from growing even larger. Just because it's not the resolution you wanted, doesn't mean NOTHING was done.

[Perrier]

They prevented said advantage from growing even larger. Just because it's not the resolution you wanted, doesn't mean NOTHING was done.

Right, just like how if I murder someone with a gun and the only thing done is dressing their corpse in a kevlar jacket, the murder has been resolved.