Real Money to Get In-Game Currency: Eternal Bond Edition

[AdamFyi]

^yeah I realized I mistyped that & changed the wording just now before reading this. Good call! Truly looking into it however would've meant that they caught this early & shut it down fast; they're just biding their time.

Much better! They are most likely alerted and are now probably looking into the situation since we got an official response. However, shutting down the whole thing could lead to a potential.. Rollback. I know everyone would rather not have that, so, take this as a grain of salt. I've experienced a lot of MMOs that take their time to resolve issues like this and usually have a solution up once they are ready. MMOs that react quickly though, usually end up with rollbacks to the servers and this throws people for a loop. So I say, "take your time SE."

It's posts like this that seriously make me shake my head. What kind of development process are you guys using over there where not ONE person says "Hey, the way we're implementing this could create some serious issues." Perhaps someone did, and was ignored for whatever ridiculous reason. You cannot seriously believe that asking players politely not to do something will have the desired effect.

It's more or less probably caused by the way the Mog Station may have been coded. They probably couldn't see how to allow two people to receive the bands unless they both bought it. So, they went ahead and decided to allow your partner to gift you the item by making it tradeable if you could not afford it. Again, most likely because of the way the Mog Station handles individual accounts. If otherwise, they could have delayed the Eternal Bond system so they could figure out a better solution.

[ChibiChan_Hyperion]

So I say, "take your time SE."

As long as they disable the ability to purchase the gold and platinum during this time, I'm all for them taking their time.

[BigPapaSmurf]

...shutting down the whole thing could lead to a potential.. Rollback...

Nah, they just take have to down the items for purchase from the Cash Shop while they figure out how they want to change things.

They can't do anything about what's already been sold (doesn't violent ToS), a rollback won't happen.

[Krr]

Ahahaha. The official dev response is "We won't punish you, but please don't so we don't have to write more code to prevent this?"

This really highlights the naivety of the design team.

[Vejjiegirl]

Ahahaha. The official dev response is "We won't punish you, but please don't so we don't have to write more code to prevent this?"

This really highlights the naivety of the design team.

Pretty much, Please stop so we don't have to spend time on a fix.

[Krr]

Pretty much, Please stop so we don't have to spend time on a fix.

"I won't sue you, but please stop hacking my servers and stealing my financial information. I would have to update my security architecture and NEITHER of us wants that!"

I mean, they could call it what it is, a mechanical exploit, and make doing it reportable. Which would stop 80% of the cases, because in order to sell these things, you have to post a pf listing or shout somewhere, which = dozens of reports from salty players.

[Teryaani]

I mean, they could call it what it is, a mechanical exploit, and make doing it reportable. Which would stop 80% of the cases, because in order to sell these things, you have to post a pf listing or shout somewhere, which = dozens of reports from salty players.

OHMYGODTHIS. Add a T&C popup that the player agrees to in the mogstation and then handle it in reports.

[Xenor]

Ahahaha. The official dev response is "We won't punish you, but please don't so we don't have to write more code to prevent this?"

This really highlights the naivety of the design team.

They are probably writing a fix as I type. This stuff takes time and has to be fully tested before it can be implemented.