UPDATE
It’s good to know that the screenshot was faked and that the number of layers is a single digit. I appreciate Blizz taking the time to assuage fears and protect the integrity of the game since perception is so intertwined with the experience.
With that said, it’s astonishing how people can read that Blue post and think 1) that it’s not an exploit, 2) that Blizz condones it, 3) that it has zero impact on the economy, and 4) that people aren’t still gaining an advantage. They literally refer to it as exploitation, agree that it should be fixed, agree that layering is having an impact on the economy and that they are monitoring it, but that this impact is not at all as bad as the previous stories were indicating. I would still like to see exploiters punishes, not just in this instance but anytime people exploit the game to gain an advantage over other players because that is indeed a TOS violation and harms the game as a whole.
Sorry, but not sorry. I love this game and I want to protect it from potential threats. Exploits threaten the game and without the full information at hand, the best defense is an overwhelming defense. If it looks like I was going overboard, that’s your opinion and you are welcome to it. But I felt that something as potentially harmful as this kind of abuse to the degree people were talking about needed to be addressed, considering we didn’t know how many layers their were and could not categorically disregard claims as impossible. You have to know what is possible in order to rule out the impossible.
I’ll leave the rest up as is.
Original post
Title. Honestly, if people are going to wreck the economy or become littler emperors by exploiting something that really should never have been in the game from the start, I’m done. Layering was a really hard pill to swallow for me, but it really was the lesser of two evils. But that was als under the assumption that Blizzard would not let it be exploited.
Well, it was already exploited. The XP exploit isn’t great, but it doesn’t impact a whole lot because we’ll all get to 60. But if it’s being used to farm our high level mats and people are becoming outrageously wealthy by exploit? Nope. It no longer feels like my meager scraping by actually means anything. I really wanted this to work out, but I’m not going to play a game where Blizz looks the other way on blatant exploits simply because streamers might be involved. If they cower to streamers, I don’t want to give them my money. This is a hard line for me.
- Fix it so that layer hopping can’t be done.
- Suspend the players involved.
- Roll back their ill gotten gains.
This is the right move. Without this, I’m unsubbing. I really do appreciate the efforts of the Classic team, but this is something that needs swift action. I don’t matter on my own, but I hope people make a similar stance.
inb4 can I have your stuff