Riot Games did somethig very similar just recently to their game League of Legends. A glitch allowed lucky players (who happened to be online at the time of the glitch) to earn hundreds of expensive stuff basically for the equavalent of 1 HOTS gold. The glitch was fixed however the players exploiting the glitch got to keep “their new stuff”. I am shocked to say the least. League of legends being a game where skins and cosmetics can normally only be aquired by spending real money this is a HUGE blow to players who regurlarly spent money on the game. Say what you want to about HOTS being close to dying or whatever but the developers dont make this kind of scam to their community at least. I might just stop playing League of Legends for good now and play mostly HOTS now.
Lol, what? It’s like complaining that someone won a lottery (which happens every day, by the way). Did they take something from you? Why are you mad?
Gotta love how entitled kids are these days … They screwed up (the glitch) and they owned it (forfeiting potential profits). Kudos to them.
We have a chain of supermarkets here (Publix) where they have a policy that if they ring up an incorrect price (it was labeled differenty on the shelf) you get the item for free. To me - great policy. Never seen anyone get offended by the fact that someone got something for free.
Sounds like Riot just don’t wanna waste any time rolling back affected accounts.
When Blizzard has had issues like that they would usually just do a rollback so not like you’d get away with it.
I am not mad i litteraly told you i am shocked. Why are you being mean for no reason answer me that.
developers dont make this kind of scam to their community at least. I might just stop playing League of Legends for good now
I am not mad
Lol, you sure? And I am mean for pointing the obvious? 
Riot comfirmed they have no plans to do that 
a bit worrysome.
What has been taken with a glitch was probably so low in numbers that making a rollback would have been much more expensive that simply leave everything like it was.
If a large amount of people would have gotten almost everything, then be sure that they would have revert everything back.
Don’t assume that they simply “gifted” those stolen skins because they’re a good company. It just a question of how much money they would have lost in a way or another.
You are childish and honestly i feel bad for you.
hmm. a little bit messed up that folks basically took advantage of an exploit and got to keep their spoils… but i probably wouldn’t start a revolt over it, myself. if it doesn’t affect game balance (e.g. if it was just cosmetics) then the most PR-friendly course is a little less clear: do you crack down on the exploiters and risk being seen as tyrannical/greedy, or do you let them keep their stuff and risk being seen as too lax/not principled enough?
it sounds like riot just wound up going with the second option
If that would be the gold value, we’d have had Copper,Bronze, and Silver pieces as a resource in game : P
Go google the definition of scam.
You are aware that a glitch is something that is not intended?
Im afraid they will lose more money this way unless they find a reasonable compensation for everyone. It seems to be a quite popular topic on Twitter right now.
I would take their glitched stuff and give them a temporary ban for exploiting a glitch THAT ridiculous.
But I wouldn’t have let skin prices be that expensive to begin with, either.
But I’m a just god, though sometimes authoritarian.
There was plenty event gameplay bug exploits, to gain easier cosmetic items in Dota 2 as well. Valve never did anything about it, other than fix the bug. Even though ppl sold the items on the steam market for gaben dollars.
It was golden era of dota 2 as i enjoyed exploiting events, it was fun actually as it required certain gameplay strategy and not everyone could pull it off. Later i think they added not marketable tag to some cosmetics so people wont sell and to limit potential bug market influence in the next events.
There was also bug with unlimited lottery usage of spinning the wheel to get cosmetic items.
But in Hots you don’t really need to exploit to get anything. That kid boardgame give you plenty of chests and i don’t even care about completing it as i am feed with cosmetics.
Are you aware that does not justify it? It is never okay to reward exploiters of glitches instead of punishing them. This is very simple.
Your very first sentence implies that it (dropping the prices) was a deliberate action by Riot.
Also if those prices simply dropped in the store, this is not an exactly an exploit. In difference to you those users had no way to know this was not a deliberate action by the devs nor did they intentionally perform actions to cause prices to drop or access them at reduced price.
Welcome to HoTS 2.0, patch where everything people had spent money on was suddenly given for free to everybody.
Except the OP said gold.
Pretty much anyone playing could get at minimum 220+ items from AI games if they had play 2 quest.
10 gold per win and 200 from quest…
20-30 minutes.