All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Sep. 20)

[Cynthis]

Eh, in my book, an exploit is taking advantage of something like a bug, or a broken mechanic that is clearly not working as originally designed.

Except you have to look at the full picture when making that call and not just each individual component and mechanic since it all adds up to the player experience.

So either this is working completely as intended in which cases SEs intention was to destroy the economy, and for the life of me I can't figure out why they would do that, or SE did something incredibly incompetent (Not least for letting it go on so long and not fixing it within hours) that did not work as originally intended, in which case it is an exploit.

That being said, I would never argue for punishing players who take advantage of such obvious mismanagement of a game. SE could have fixed this very quickly and chose not to so the result is SEs fault, not the fault of the players that used the exploit.