This mentality has been catching on like wildfire since p3 launched, and blizzard really seems to be fine with that so far. After the p3 launch incursion fiasco was hot fixed the only reply we got towards it was “Oh well, It will be fine.”
Since then there have been more ways to exploit bugs/mechanics and it really makes people feel like if they don’t take advantage of it while its still not fixed, they will be left behind and punished for not taking advantage.
This encourages people to play around oversights, and mistakes with no repercussions, and if you don’t hop aboard the bandwagon you are just getting left behind and it is your own fault for doing so.
I doubt it will but I hope this will be addressed by someone at blizzard.
I personally have just witnessed a bunch of people complete the same amount of work I put into a week long grind for something in the matter of minutes due to an oversight. Nothing so far has taken the wind out of my sails for SoD, but this really has. Makes all the work I put in this week feel like it was for nothing and i could possibly be a fool for not taking advantage of this before it’s fixed.
We are not talking about the same thing. The current oversight is spawning tons of resources/materials on the server on loop with the click of a button with the chance of dropping an epic.
You ARE a fool if you don’t take advantage before its fixed. In every instance blizzard has created an incentive structure to exploit as much as possible as early as possible. Because the only people ever punished are the people who don’t exploit.
Blizzard used to ban people for a minimum of 3 days for exploiting things like what seems to be happening with the explorer imp thing if I am understanding it correctly. Now they just go, “oh you’re the lucky ones who figured it out, it’s gone now though so anyone else who just found out about it gets nothing.”
I had hit 45 before I heard incursions were lucrative, and they had patched it. Not only could I have been 50 faster, but I would have 1000g+. All because I decided to dungeon spam with guildies instead of trying incursions. Mind you that I am actively checking things like WoWhead and these forums often, but obviously not when I am grinding dungeons with people.
They should really take the gold away they earned specifically doing the exploit. Who cares about a 1 week ban if you get to keep everything you gained by doing it?
We don’t give the money back to bank robbers once they get out of prison.
They have done this in the past. However, at nearly every single opportunity to make SoD an even playing field they’ve dropped the ball.
I am hoping that whatever the next season is they are more heavy handed and actually are more upfront with it.
If it’s similar to SoD they would need to implement a lot of the rules like the 30 day restriction and GDKP ban off the bat. Then work on exploits that can generate insane amounts of gold/items to result in an actual punishment so that people aren’t sitting on ridiculous amounts of gold for practically zero effort.
It’s great that they correct the issues, but well after the fact, with no punishment or way to compensate those who don’t do these sorts of behaviors is silly.
This is what kills me. It’s now three occurrences where resources have flooded into the game beyond expected levels. Sure, it’s fixed but by the time its fixed players have a distinct advantage over those who didn’t get to take advantage of it. It’s really killed my enthusiasm for SoD.
That’s not even mentioning the absolute abysmal farming for the Warlock dagger from Fel rifts, that helped feed this latest one it’s just silly, even more so when the only reasonable alternative is the Gnomer dagger.
The thing is incursions weren’t really an exploit. They were just very poorly designed, and honestly still very much so are.
Banning folks for doing something that isn’t even an exploit is incredibly stupid, and I’m saying this as someone that didn’t do incursions before the gold nerf.
The explorer imp thing is a genuine exploit and should be punished. Players using it know exactly what they’re doing, and there’s no way anyone can say they don’t know what they’re doing.
