Again they provided the information not me. It was unnecessary. They left this open to the player base assumptions and interpretation.
Not that I personally would uninstall because of it, but I get where they are coming from.
Blizzard just set a precedent by publicly announcing that abusing bugs pays of big time and has no consequences for those who do it.
Now the mentality of the community is, that exploiting is not only perfectly fine, but basically mandatory if you donât want to be at a heavy disadvantage.
People will jump on every new exploit and abuse the living poop out of it, because the expectation has been set, that they will be able to keep what they gain out of it.
I personally think that it is very unhealthy for the game and the community.
It causes frustration, unrest and sets a tone for the future that I heavily dislike.
That you donât play the PvP in the game doesnât fix the issue for the players who do.
Many of them knew perfectly well that it was a bug.
Being at the right place at the right time is a mandatory condition for being able to abuse a bug, not an excuse for doing it.
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are you even reading what other people write?
Never heard this one. Only thing i heard was, that some classes could Target Farm Uberuniques, cause they do not have a Class Unique in this slot. For Example Barb and Mage have no Unique Helmet. (Hope this is correct) Now you telling me they had 800% Drop chance. I doubt it. You have a source for this? or just Feelcraft?
Cause Blizzard failed hard with this mechanic. Not working as intended. They should just remove Uber Uniques form the Lootpool (Helltide Chest)
This is a bit of a mischaracterization of what it means to âexploitâ something, so to speak. Typically, the term âexploitâ as it relates to a TOS in a game is in reference to breaking the game in a way not intended by the developers. A good example of this is most recently is in Tears of the Kingdom, where players broke the game by initiating a sequence of events to duplicate items in their inventory.
That is the type of exploit Blizzard would be referring to in their TOS.
The shako incident isnât that sort of exploit. People didnât exploit the bug by initiating sequences outside of the gameâs intended design. They were simply farming content and got the shako. You could perhaps argue that the shako should have gotten taken away from those players, but nobody violated TOS.
In any case, it doesnât really matter. Seasons start next week, and virtually nobody will play those toons again. Itâs such a nothing burger.
Yes, what does the dangers if the database have to do with anything?
They didnât need to provide the 142 to us.
If as you stated itâs so dangerous to correct, then they left an open ended threat/warning that holds no legitimacy.
They handled the situation poorly.
Right. Years worth of Uber uniques, in a 6 hr period. Lol. Oh well, as long as itâs streamers/influencers and Blizz friends/family who got them, all good right? The peasants donât need any of that good loot.
So, you admit it was a bug. Some people 1) started farming for such items because of the bug and spread the word about it, and 2) told others to start farming for them as well. Blizzardâs own ToS states that is considered exploitation and will (maybe in the future, as the case has proven) lead to repercussions.
What more do you need?
Trust me; had I discovered such a thing and started spreading the word about it, I would have been banned. But I am not a streamer that helps generate money for BlizzardâŚ
uhm just you know⌠having a pretty high risk for the reward it would get? guess how hard the uproar had been if anything else broke while at it? you are assuming it is an easy fix. not once did you think maybe it´s actually pretty dangerous to go ham on a live database (with inept devs).
I believe it sends a profoundly negative message to the player base and any potential buyers. Blizzardâs decision more or less legitimizes exploits, informs players that there wonât be any consequences for using said exploits, and all but ensures that people will abuse any future exploits until Blizzard finally steps in with a patch or a hotfix, to the detriment of balance and the community.
I highly doubt this lax attitude will be specific to eternal realm either; Blizzard hasnât given me any indication that they will handle things differently when seasons come out. As a consumer and as a player, thatâs what bothers me the most.
No, it isnât. An exploit is when you abuse something in the game that was bugged or not intended for an advantage. Knowing that the Uber unique drops are bugged and abusing that is pretty much the biggest exploit in history.
Itâs okay, you probably think weâre all talking about just regular Uniques lol.
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so⌠it´s like before? well done blizzard. just imagine if people had exploited shack unlimited xp sites.
Now did you read what I stated?
I stated I could care less if they removed or not. They provided unnecessary information for the action they took.
Iâm sure it is just a table and a minor SQL update but the dangers is neither here nor there ⌠If they wanted to elaborate more and give even more useless information they could have also provided us with the dangers informationâŚ
I need nothing. Some of you guys are loosing your head cause 142 people got at Shako. 
And if they remove it okay, but they already said they will stay. And then someone comes here and Comments like this.
Really Bad luck always to meet this 142 Guys who âexploitedâ the Shako. I doubt this is the biggest problem for him in the Fields of Hatred. And no. I did not get any Unique Items. I tried to farm my Tempest Roar on Druid. And it did not drop for me sadly. 
Logging into the game, earning a chest through intended gameplay, and getting a uber uniqueâŚ
is not the same as
Resetting NM dungeons for 5 hours straightâŚor selling duped instances to 500 players while they reset NM dungeons for 5 hours straight eachâŚor purposefully playing outside of the intended scope to gain a benefit.
You can be assured that blizzard can and will be punishing players who are exploiting the game. But pretending that earning a chest, and opening it - is akin to actually exploiting in the game - is not helping anyone or anything.
That is subjective. i like to have more information than less. i also prefer devs that communicate and not just do something and say nothing about it. has nothing to do with what my gripe with your statement was.
âEngaging in any activity that gives you unfair advantageâ is considered cheating/exploitingâŚ
Those are Blizzards TOS words. It gives enough reason to remove items but not ban accounts! 
But letâs just agree to dissagree. These words mean nothing to some people it seems or Blizzard for that matter.
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Please feel free to educate yourself because I saw the actual streams encouraging the exploiting. You are just speculating and whiteknighting Blizz.
Stop defending nonsense. No one is buying it. Leaving 142 exploited uber uniques on Eternal Realm smells bad and thousands are quitting due to it. Thatâs a fact.
Ok and the thread Iâm responding to is asking Why is the shako glitch so offending⌠I responded with my reasoning. The thread is asking for opinions and I gave mine.
Exploiting in D4 praised and legitimized weeks after release with strongest items in the game most players will never have already attained.
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