Those Market Board prices..

[whoopeeragon]

But you did? Then decided not to remove this information? There are people who took advantage of this information while the servers were up. I'm not boo hooing at all, but its careless nonetheless.

Please stop rushing things SE. It's not just patch notes.

Maybe you should read the rest of the post. He justified why they didn't remove the information afterwards; if they didn't keep it up, it would have been spread by other third party site. Mistakes happen, the devs are not perfect almighty beings. Yes, they received their backlash and have apologised for it. Least we can do is be humble and accept their apology.

[VoltaAsura]

Maybe you should read the rest of the post. He justified why they didn't remove the information afterwards; if they didn't keep it up, it would have been spread by other third party site. Mistakes happen, the devs are not perfect almighty beings. Yes, they received their backlash and have apologised for it. Least we can do is be humble and accept their apology.

I think the justification of it is just a lazy answer. Leaving it there only ensured that many more people saw it, when it could have been removed from the official site. Sure the information resided on other sites after being published, but I don't think as many people would have seen them if that had been the case.

Also, policy? O.O

What's funny is that I really don't even care - as none of this affected me personally, but I can see what it did and I think its careless.

[MomomiMomi]

I think the justification of it is just a lazy answer. Leaving it there only ensured that many more people saw it, when it could have been removed from the official site. Sure the information resided on other sites after being published, but I don't think as many people would have seen them if that had been the case.

So you think it would be better for only a few people to have knowledge that gives them a market advantage, and everyone else who didn't get to view it are out of luck?

No, leaving it on there was the best course they could have taken.

[VoltaAsura]

So you think it would be better for only a few people to have knowledge that gives them a market advantage, and everyone else who didn't get to view it are out of luck?

No, leaving it on there was the best course they could have taken.

Not even a need to debate it. They could have removed it and said whatever they wanted - for their reason to remove, (including translation issues, restructuring of recipes, stating that "since recipes will be changing so much we have decided not to list their recipes at this time"...ect..) instead they stated that these recipes were for later patches, practically confirming their finality. This lead to a surge on the markets.

[MomomiMomi]

Not even a need to debate it. They could have removed it and said whatever they wanted - for their reason to remove, (including translation issues, restructuring of recipes, stating that "since recipes will be changing so much we have decided not to list their recipes at this time"...ect..) instead they stated that these recipes were for later patches, practically confirming their finality. This lead to a surge on the markets.

What they say doesn't matter. What matters is that removing it would give those who saw it an unfair advantage over those who didn't. This is not a smart thing to do.

And they didn't state the recipes are for later patches. That only pertains to the items that they did remove from the list.

[SinisterIsBack]

I think the justification of it is just a lazy answer. Leaving it there only ensured that many more people saw it, when it could have been removed from the official site. Sure the information resided on other sites after being published, but I don't think as many people would have seen them if that had been the case.

Also, policy? O.O

What's funny is that I really don't even care - as none of this affected me personally, but I can see what it did and I think its careless.

Regardless if it was before or during maintenance, the price hikes would have happened none the less. Slower pace? sure maybe for a few lucky first timers logging on and swiping all the lower priced mats and only a few would have made a hefty profit.