All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Sep. 20)

[Wynn]

But lots of people did, that's the problem. Back in the day, leve linking made gil flow like water, this was like making the economy take a drink from a fire hose.

It's true. I saw people in my shell, in a few days, make as much money as I had after two years of diligently crafting and selling items in the wards.

I ended up feeling compelled to farm atomos myself just so I wasn't volunteering for a social class demotion.

[rekijitsu]

They clearly didn't plan for people to buy stacks of Dawn Drops for hours and resell them to an NPC. If it was intended, they wouldn't be hotfixing it (which, to me, isn't a very hot fix if it took over a week to develop). Too little, too late. SE is still partly to blame on this.

This was an exploit.

Would they do anything about it to the exploiters? Well, let's ask Garuda that one.

[Valmonte]

It's true. I saw people in my shell, in a few days, make as much money as I had after two years of diligently crafting and selling items in the wards.

I ended up feeling compelled to farm atomos myself just so I wasn't volunteering for a social class demotion.

I just broke down and did it, even if i really didnt want to. i missed the gravy train once with garuda the hell if im going to miss it again.

[Lavieh]

I don't think people know what the term "Exploit" means.

[Jennestia]

I don't think people know what the term "Exploit" means.

To take advantage of something unintended.

[ChiyoKatsui]

Usually an exploit in an MMO game is taking advatage of a mechanic that's not meant to be in the game, such as XI's NM exploits on the ??? where it would not take your pop item under certain conditions, not one that is there readily available prior to an event making it overwhelming. Thats not an exploit, that's called a development mistake.

For real example of an exploit, look up the old Absolute Virtue exploit where you get him stuck. That's not a mechanic meant to be in the game, that's a glitch the was exploited.

[Zezlar]

To take advantage of something unintended.

I don't really see the Dawn Drops as an exploit. It's not like people are duplicating an item, or cheating to obtain the Gil. It's more of an oversight, and people took clear advantage of it. It's a very good thing they're nerfing it in this update though because if it had gone on for much longer it would have been a big deal. I don't think it's so much the Gil that was the problem. It's more of the fact that the economy basically stopped. No one was farming, crafting, melding, and more. No Gil was leaving. Now that it's removed it will level out with time.

[BotenAnna]

I am really mad about Internet Money and also don't understand redenomination.

[Godking]

lol@economy

Good joke.

[Artiss2k]

I didn't give a crap about selling dawn drops or w/e, I just wanted to get my rank and GC gear, weapons, etc etc... however being as i'm a fairly new player, I haven't gotten my GC quests finished so i'm capped at 45k seals and can't buy the big ticket GC items yet. I was hoping i'd have time to get my missions finished, get second lieutenant rank for 25k seals, then buy the high end stuff. They can nerf the money exploit just continue to let us get seals to get our crap done before the end of this version of the game.