Quote Originally Posted by alocsin View Post
In World of Warcraft, among other MMORPG's, lost or stolen items or money are usually restored immediately without fanfare and without going through data recovery. The CSRs there just look through a transaction log to see what happened and correct the problem.
How does that even work btw ?

Let's suppose the player A stole 20 millions gils from me, and spend them on crafted stuff on the market board who has been made by B. B being an honest player who did work hard to do the crafted stuff he is putting on sale. Also prices for this stuff are quite high at the moment.

If the 20 millions are given back to me, are they deleted from B's account while he did nothing wrong ? Or does B keep them while the gils i get back are created out from nothing (in which case i don't doubt that some people will fake some robbery where they will be A and B at the same time to get twice the gils) ? Or does B get back his crafted stuff, but some days later (because my request will take some time to process), which can hurt him if in the meantime market board prices did crash ?

Just asking because depending on how it is handled, there might be some problems who make the "if you get tricked it's all on you !" answer easier to give.