Blue Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) Please DO NOT discuss the details of the exploit in this thread. This is concerning if ROLL BACKS will be required and nothing more. Now that the cat is out of the bag, the economy is in shambles, people were flocking to the streets of the star wars universe. With exploiters sitting on literally BILLIONS of credits spread throughout the economy you can expect to see the following within the next few weeks!... Advanced Blue Critical Crystal +4 Critical Requires level 4 1,000,000 credits Are you guys as a community willing to pay the price and do server rollbacks to PREVENT this from happening? I am and I believe the community will be better for allowing it to happen. Remember this bug has been around since beta!!!! Bioware's Response: We're aware of your concerns regarding this issue, and are conducting a full investigation of the impact. Please rest assured that anyone found to be in violation of our Terms of Service will have appropriate action taken against them. We will provide more information as it becomes available. Thank you! Edited January 6, 2012 by Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naroga Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I haven't had any issues with my server's economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 You havent seen tons of players driving the 2 million credit mounts? Its only a matter of time until the money flow from the now super rich causes severe inflation of your economy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gashers Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) Are rollbacks really necessary? I thought they fixed the bug really quickly. Wouldn't it be easier to just determine who exploited and vanquish those accounts and their credits? Do you think the exploiters really unloaded all their ill-gotten creds so quickly? Edited January 6, 2012 by Gashers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordKrell Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 No. Why not let Bioware take care of it first? We don't even know what kind of actions they'll take against the exploiters. See : http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1263904#edit1263904 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WonderLlama-Con Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Please DO NOT discuss the details of the exploit in this thread. This is concerning if ROLL BACKS will be required and nothing more. Advanced Blue Critical Crystal +4 Critical Requires level 4 1,000,000 credits Credit exploits or not, I'd like some of whatever THAT GUY was smoking when he posted that on the GTN. I'd almost be willing to wager he's just using it as extra storage for the crystal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardicon Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 simple to fix, dont pay those prices. so doesnt matter. btw if that was a ingame price, then that is a credit seller doing that, not a real player. they get someone to put up a stupid little item like that for a outrageous price which happens to be the amount of credits that person bought and voila they buy the item and the credits go to the buyers. they do this to try to avoid getting the money caught by sending it in the mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicSkimmr Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 there's always another reason why the sky is falling it seems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApesAmongUs Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Are you guys as a community willing to pay the price and do server rollbacks to PREVENT this from happening? Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serkazong Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 No, BW can track down the offenders and remove credits. I hope they do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakien Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Based on the information I've seen and the examples that I have witnessed. I have the feeling that Bioware is aware of who has too many credits and will be acting accordingly. Laundering money by buying equipment will not save anyone either. They know the value of the in game items.... Nothing that can't be rectified now that it's been caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 simple to fix, dont pay those prices. so doesnt matter. btw if that was a ingame price, then that is a credit seller doing that, not a real player. they get someone to put up a stupid little item like that for a outrageous price which happens to be the amount of credits that person bought and voila they buy the item and the credits go to the buyers. they do this to try to avoid getting the money caught by sending it in the mail. You apparently are the one man who believes gas prices are fair! If not you wouldn't pay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IxCptMorganxI Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Prices are only valid if people are willing to pay them. Sure, there are a few rich people but it really boils down to the majority. The rest of us have our meager 20k credits and we'll spend them accordingly. I'm sure Bioware will take action against any using the exploits. It won't be hard to find them, anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raigirin Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 no to rollback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicksDigHarleys Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I'd prefer they track down and ban the exploiters, but if they couldn't do it for some reason, I wouldn't mind too much...as long as they did it, oh, today instead of a week from now. Losing a couple days progress = meh whatever. Losing 2 weeks progress = me not being a happy camper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saice Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thradar Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Meh. I can get all crafted items from guildies for free (if they have the mats on hand). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun-Runner Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I am and I believe the community will be better for allowing it to happen. Remember this bug has been around since beta!!!! I will not start over from scratch. I simply won't continue my subscription. I imagine that I'm not alone in this. Put another way: Do it! The game will then fail and deserve to fail. You don't erase nearly a month's worth of effort from millions of people without horrific consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casmaran Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Remember that high end crafting is messed up.. You can get better mods and other stuff off the vendors for tokens.. So the economy is a bit broke from the start. The other thing is: at this point it would be obvious who the exploiters are, if there sitting on that kind of cash.. They only have to check the database to find them.. Ironically exploiters are a group of people that suffer from instant gratification, and that leads to their downfall.. The greed factor alone makes them go to extremes that make them stick out in a database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainmerkin Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I believe that the economy will very rapidly fall back into stability and balance, hopefully without a rollback required. people are ************ about the maintenence so Id be quite happy for a roll back just to show them why it is necessary. every game finds exploits, few hit them so fast and remove them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armaso Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Wait....people buy things from the GTH? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraxture Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) You apparently are the one man who believes gas prices are fair! If not you wouldn't pay! I need gas. I don't need a virtual item that can most easily be made by myself or a guild member or easily found just adventuring. Supply and demand. They are supplying something that isn't in high demand. I need resources like aluminum or Desh. I take my level 35 Trooper and have it farmed in about 30 mins to make armor for my lowbie guildies, purples even. If I cannot do that, then I deserve to be gouged for being that lazy. Edited January 6, 2012 by Fraxture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizil Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 They are not going to roll back the servers. Anyone who actually thinks they will is truly delusional. Even if they felt the economy would be broken forever without a rollback, they would not do it. A rollback that extensive would end this game. Period. You'd be playing in a ghost town afterward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everi Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 The highest price I've seen in the GTN so far has been 33,000 and nobody bought it because more of the same item were up for 5,000 at most. I've actually been surprised at how low some of the cost are. I've been buying rare mats (at least mats I've had an incredibly hard time getting) for under 1,000 credits. Hell I just bought a massive stack of alien blood for about 400 credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApesAmongUs Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 You apparently are the one man who believes gas prices are fair! Of course not. They are entirely too low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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