Hey Game Runners -
This is Kat, from Kats_tales on Twitch. I am another member of the Avalon's Fury 16 man team that lost the Gatecrasher Title and Cheevo. As per Roman's and Admiral Nick's posts both here and on YouTube you can see, we have every piece of proof required to show that we worked, legitimately, to earn/complete these pieces of content. I also spent in the neighborhood of 150 hours live streaming our teams progression in the Dread Fortress to the community at large. I have been streaming my progression as a raider in the game for almost three years. I have been playing it since launch - with 10.5 years of that as a subscriber and probably over 12,000 hours played if I had to guess. I am not a SWTOR hater type player. I never really post on the forums...but, this time, I have to say that I am so incredibly disappointed by not just what happened, but how it happened. I have been a public cheerleader for this game - for 20 hours a week, for three years...and today I am really at a loss to find reasons as to how this was determined to be the best way to handle some exploit.
If this is how a person who has loved this game as much as I do feels...I have to assume you are about to lose a lot of the raiding community (again). After the SnV exploit a few years ago, 5 of the 6 teams in my guild left the game, this has that same feeling of doom from among the players. I have had lots and lots of people from the community reach out to me thinking that I have some magic way to get them help. I am very sorry to say that I do not, and for that I am very sorry. It feels like there should be something that can be done to remedy it. So, I feel for all of you who, like us, worked and studied and stressed...and now feel, idk, sort of betrayed actually. So, I am sorry fellow players. I am going to validate your feelings and say - yes, this sucks.
Anyway, I of course feel that ppl with the ability to prove their accomplishments ought to be able to keep them. I would ask that on your end you really consider figuring out a more just way to remove the falsely earned timers etc that some ppl got.