You dont understand what an exploit is.
Exploits are created from oversights on the development team. THEY are NOT hacks - they are from bugs/glitches and other types of over sights.
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Ok they never said they expected it either.
The point is it wasnt meant to happen. An exploit is something that wasnt meant to happen - and shouldnt have (in simple terms).
They didnt want that much gil to come into the system - it shouldnt have happened. IT IS an exploit.
I wasn't extremely hard core about doing atmos but I guess my 8m I got from it is enough for 2.0.
They said the gil inflow recently has been more then expected. Then they go on to say they where watching gil inflow from seals particularly and they where not pleased.
They are not correlated exactly, and if they where (since perhaps its subjective how you read that sentence) then they should have had more forethought. Its quite easy to see thousands of seals coming in for a low gil cost high gil return is not good.
The way I viewed this event was that it provided the opportunity for players to get their promotions. Those that had been stalling because of not wanting to farm totorak or do caravans were given the opportunity to earn enough seals to get to final rank and then finish the rest of the story before 1.0 is put to bed.