So if you go to withdraw some money and it start to giving you more than it should you would just keep taking and taking and taking way above what you actually have?
Cuz I doubt you would
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is peeling potatoes while meat is marinating in seasoning. Looks up
In essence…“Oh look, the consequences of my own action. Better shift the blame!”
Rolls his eyes and keeps working on food.
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Yeah but everyone say’s similar for every expansion, it’s the same old same old. There’s bugs that get exploited forum jokes it’s because it was rushed if the feeling isn’t it was rushed then it’s the “unskilled /who do you have working for you blizz my 5 year old can code better” line of complaints.
It happens and of course there’s “punishment “ to those that exploit, because easy or hard it’s not supposed to be that way.
Anything outside of that chalk it up to well life’s not fair.
But it does says the CD is one day and it does stop you from doing more until you do the exploit.
If it happens once it’s a mistake, after that it’s abuse
I wouldn’t. Have you SEEN overdraft fees? They will kill you with debt.
This is what happens when you give early access i mean beta to people who use your game as a money source. They don’t care because as soon as this game nose dives they jump to the next popular object like a virus until its lifeless.
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Crazy that you mention this. Sometimes I get random “deep thoughts” like am I a good person, actually?
A few months ago I was in a very very minor car accident and there was body damage done to my car. After working things out and getting estimates, the guy whose wife hit me cut me a check for a significant amount of money (he really didn’t want to go through insurance and I’m almost positive it’s because they hit me in a rental car and opted out of the insurance addon)
And so I went to cash the check at my bank and I went in physically instead of scanning it on my phone app because, again, it was a significant amount of money (to a poor like me) and that day in the bank they were understaffed for some reason and had a really long line. I processed my check and went about my day.
Shortly after I looked in my bank account and saw that I had about 4 times more than what I had expected should be in my bank account after that check cleared. I saw that multiple deposits were made when I know I only made one. I’m young and typically don’t fudge with checks. So I immediately thought, oh no, what if they took all that money out of the guys account who wrote me the check??? I HATE drama and even hated getting in the accident and having to interact with people in the first place, so I called my bank to get it sorted out.
I didn’t want to be accused of theft or have money taken out of my account after I spent it or something. But OMG I had to tell them like 20 times, something happened and a mistake was made, you deposited more money in my account than you should have! Where did it come from? Someone is expecting this money in THEIR account and its not there! Where are these extra deposits from? I only cashed ONE check!
They finally figured out that somehow, the teller had deposited my check and the checks of the person who was in line behind me into my account. They thanked me for my honesty and I told them, “If I was expecting that lump sum of money in my account and it wasn’t there, I’d be livid.” They ended up fixing the problem but I had to convince them and would not let them off the phone for like an hour. The person I spoke to on the phone couldn’t figure out what I was saying for some reason.
So at least now I know, I am an honest and generally good person even if it works against me.
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So lets say that next Tuesday everyone logs in and finds that moonfire hits for 10,000,000 initial damage.
Clearly, it’s a bug.
“Oh, no… I can’t go to the raid guys, there’s a damage enhancing bug effecting druids right now. It would give us an unfair advantage and trivialize our progress. I should actually probably stop playing the game until this is fixed.” - No player ever.
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I only stole because you didnt have an alarm system…not my fault
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If it had a cool down listed on an in game tool tip or someplace you could read it, then you exploited. Hard to get out of a speeding ticket by telling the cop “I didn’t read the sign”.
Not sure how hard it would be to see who cheated in some cases, the rep for sure, if someone passed the theoretical maximum rep that should be available if you did not profession swap than drop them down, the Sha mount fiasco should have had those mounts removed.
But some things might not be as easy to see or to tell if someone genuinely knew and just abused it a little, or didn’t know and got an advantage anyway, which is the real issue here, how are we supposed to know? Many players didn’t.
It’s like how I knew about Sha dropping higher for Evokers on the beta, but I never put 1+1 together, I just thought it was intended in the same way they increased Rukhmars drop rate on the PTR, some people really are not the clued on to these things and only gain an advantage by coincidence and nothing more.
So do you ban someone who gamed the system? Do you ban someone who was simply playing the game, but gained a significant advantage? Just fix the bug, say sorry and call it a day.
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I don’t care if you want to stand by your statement. The game has a background program that looks at your program files for changes to them called Warden and the server controls things like what world quests are up and if you’ve met criteria to have completed them and giving you your reward and keeping the actual data of your character. Addons can not touch the critical parts of your character. An addon can’t just say your profession cooldown is up and the server can only shrug and say “yep go ahead”. An addon can’t just say “hey this character pushed this button and did eleventybanjillion damage to the enemy”. The server is the one who says “he did 10k” and reduce the mob’s HP accordingly.
An addon can lie to you and say you did eleventybajillion damage all it wants but that isn’t what is happening. So believe whatever nonsense you want. You’re just wrong plain and simple.
Addons that break the TOS do so by using functions that Blizzard gives them which is why Blizzard can easily break them by removing the functions those addons rely on. Otherwise you would just have old addons kept on the black market that could do exploitable things and Blizzard would be helpless to deal with. That isn’t the case though. People using addons where Blizzard “breaks” isn’t being punished for breaking rules. Like that one addon whose name escapes me where it drew on the UI. Blizzard didn’t like it so they broke the code the addon relied on so it just stopped working…they didn’t go and mass ban everyone who used the addon prior to that.
The one instance I can recall was when a player did modify their game files and did get a perma ban was way back in Vanilla where they used it to “dig a hole” straight to C’thun. Far as I know, you can’t even replace your image or sound files with modified ones without getting smacked down and those would just be used to replace graphics/sounds you see/hear. Like the nude character models from back in the day too.
Nah, if you cheat you should get banned. Should be a perma, tbh.
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Well the expansion is called Bugflight
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You seriously think they have the ability to find every bug in beta?
like fr right now?
enjoy your ban bro
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i wish i could post gif’s id post the one of Eric cartmen licking scotss tears and post it for the OP
That’s YOUR choice as a player. Every time I find myself facing something that is an exploit, I walk away – including leaving groups who laugh at me insisting “everyone is doing it!” Well, to pull out the meme parental advice, if everyone was jumping off a bridge, no, I would not jump with them.
My disappointment is they are not MORE active in punishing people who know without a shadow of a doubt they are participating in an exploit. I’m particularly looking at the rep exploits which allowed a good number of people to rake in credit for reps they shouldn’t have been able to get so high, only to have Blizzard close the door for everyone else without even removing the exploiters’ exploited gains.
That’s a complexity I didn’t think of. I’m also thinking of the perspective of how their entire ban system is even working because it seems like the initial punishment was an over-step which they had to correct. So it makes me think that either someone made an impulsive decision and they realized they messed up and their head will roll in the next team meeting, or they really just didn’t care to investigate the incident until people started to complain.
This is why I think they need to come up with a better system for these things during an expansion launch. I can support banning people who very clearly exploit a system, but once genuine accidents get caught in the crossfire, then you get a whole bunch of people who will justifiably feel backstabbed.
Then there’s also the perspective of how the people who played ‘fair’ can also feel screwed over cause they will compare themselves to the people who took advantage of an unfair system even if they technically did not exploit.
Idk, it’s a messy situation and this is why writing good test cases is important
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They should go get a life , most of them are just pretenders and copy what real competitors do and plagarize it . They invade beta to find exploits and not help Blizzard fix issues .
If you see an exploit report it and don’t do it again …very simple
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I personally believe as long as you aren’t using external hacks and are just using mechanics, you should never be banned. Hire more testers.
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