Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
I think this was a REALLY bad move on their part. They admitted they knew an exploit was wrong but didn't have the means to fix it. This does nothing but reinforce the negative thoughts about their crappy programming code.
I didn't understand it that way (even though I don't defend them because I think there were wrong too)
The original issue had no real consequences until then so I can understand that it wasn't a priority. It's the kind of issue you say "I'll fix it one day"

But the real problem isn't they hadn't fixed it since all that time since the nearly-zero consequences. The real problem is they knew about that issue and they should have (while implementing the Blue Mage) thought about that issue and fixed it. They didn't. Here they screwed up.