My friend was hacked while logged in

Um....almost everyone in my FC who was online just got booted, and then I did too. Seems there is a major problem ongoing, If you are still logged in, I would sugest getting off the game ASAP. until they can fix this.

Never mind, they just took the worlds down - ALL of them.

I hope they fix this and reinburse the gil lost.. I only lost 1 million compared to other players who lost more, but I worked hard for it all the same and it was all I had lol.. ><

Ok I figured out the problem. Your retainer has a shopping problem so they steal your gil and run off to the marketboards. The security camera caught them down at macy's spending your hard earned gil on some overpriced nighty outfit. Fire them at once.

(all jokes aside, this is not a hacker, this is a bug. Think logical, your retainer has both access to your gil and the marketboard... this is why banks and auctions are always two differant NPC's in most games.)

Spotted the following retainers putting items up on market for anywhere between 500,000 to 10,000,000 gil on Behemoth world.

Celena
Nawana
Fhayde
Trayvon
Supermarketsweep

All of the items (Animal Hide, Beastkin blood, & Bone chip) had recent 5 million gil transactions, & confirmed with one of the people in the sales history that he lost 5mil to the message "Insufficient Gil."

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Originally Posted by Farmer

(all jokes aside, this is not a hacker, this is a bug. Think logical, your retainer has both access to your gil and the marketboard... this is why banks and auctions are always two differant NPC's in most games.)

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I sincerely hope you aren't serious.

Now this has me worried. I spent a long time in the gridania market area around the retainer bell right around the time people are reporting this happened. Sorting my inventory and getting rid of some junk. I even had some random person /tell hello to me. I didnt even pay attention to my gil before getting booted for maintenance.

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Originally Posted by Farmer

Ok I figured out the problem. Your retainer has a shopping problem so they steal your gil and run off to the marketboards. The security camera caught them down at macy's spending your hard earned gil on some overpriced nighty outfit. Fire them at once.

(all jokes aside, this is not a hacker, this is a bug. Think logical, your retainer has both access to your gil and the marketboard... this is why banks and auctions are always two differant NPC's in most games.)

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Last I checked my retainer can't buy things.

All jokes aside, my retainer can't buy things.

How a game can have such godawful security is beyond me, especially considering SE has 10+ years of experience with MMOs. I honestly have no words, please, please try to defend this somehow, I need the entertainment and cheap laughs.

I know this is irrelevant to the actual report, but I think after this I'm going to feel more furious for every gil spammer that spams me.

Hey, they can't sell you anything if they don't make you poor first.

They removed a lot of the checks in 1.0 to reduce the server latencies. I guess they removed too much.