Plat dupe strikes again

I haven't been active in Norrath much this week, as there's been more activities to enjoy with the start of summer. Fortunately, it means I completely missed yet another fumble by DPG until taking a quick spin through the forums during lunch. Apparently there was a previously reported plat dupe that never got patched before Tarinax went live.... and it was found and exploited heavily last night. Looks like servers went down just before 11 pm PDT, until about 10:30 am this morning.
From the second hand accounts in the OF, including posts this morning after servers came back up, seems like the entire economy for Tarinax has been nuked.

General forum thread

PvP forum thread - looks like Mepps or Accendo rolled this up into the General thread (above)

Mepps mentioned there would be more information coming out this afternoon. I'd heartily recommend they do a server roll-back to a time before the exploit started, and run some kinda promo to compensate players. Otherwise, the economy damage and loss of good will to those who lost broker items to buyers using duped plat is going to doom it even sooner then I had previously forecast.

Who woulda thought it'd be dead before summer ethereals?!

 

I am 99.99% sure its the item dupe bug you can do when you go exile. This has been reported by players and ogre bot developers over a year ago and they just did nothing to stop it until it hit them in the ass.

Even back then people used this to buy familiar crates and krono, which is why krono prices have been going up and down as much as they are. +/- 2-2.1 millions sometimes. The only reason they are doing anything now is because someone decided to mail 9,9 million plat to every online on some of the servers.

 

Yikes! Well, given it was reportedly an exile guild on Tarinax that was responsible, that makes sense. Especially since it looks like they took Tarinax back down at 1:30 pm (Pacific time) for more emergency maintenance.

The Discord's gotta be going nuts... oh, to be a fly on the wall, lol! I'm sure Kander will bring out a retroactive ban-hammer to take out frustration once he gets time for a few drinks.

 

The comment on the forum post that made me laugh was the "I wish they'd given us more notice"....ummm hey guys, there's going to be an emergency in around, oh, half an hour or so....

If they can do that, they should be able to predict the winning Lotto numbers as well!

Edit: The PVP forum thread has been nuked into the ether in its entirety.

 

Yeah, I couldn't help but respond to that growing level of stupidity And given that and the amount of whining on the main thread I can easily imagine what was going on over in the pvp version

 

It's sort of eye opening to be detached and visit threads like the one being discussed here.

It's truly stunning that people are actually losing their sh*t over downtime for a game that is so remarkably craptacular.

Pick up a book. Take care of some house projects. Spend time with your kids, grand kids, neices or nephews. Or God forbid, play another game?

Nope. Gonna park on the forums anxious and fuming, speculating about ransom ware attacks and demanding a $0.50 refund because the game's been down for a few hours without a continuous stream of fully documented updates every 6 minutes.

Jebus. It's all just so freakin' ludicrous.

 

This is litterally part of the reason why I started game hopping years ago. 15-20 years ago most of these games could get horriffic when it came to things breaking and down time. So I found something to keep me occupied, other games.

 

Great point. Leads to the question.....

Do you think they would have done anything, if it didn't involve their precious PvP server?

 

Question is... how much plat was duped and successfully laundered before the point they rolled back the server to? Some people might/probably been doing it for much longer before it went viral. How much plat was duped on the live servers that didn't get any rollbacks? Guess we never know for sure...

 

And their solution to 'plat dupers' is.. not to fix the problem.. but, once again, to screw crafters..

Update Notes Addendum: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 | EverQuest 2 Forums
So crafters either plan very carefully exactly how much fuel they're going to need, or they throw plat away..

 

It's going to hurt low level crafters trying to level up quite badly. Now when you're getting to the end of the tier you're going to have to do complex maths to avoid buying too many fuels and tying up the money you need to finance your new tier books and fuels. And you don't need to be wasting that sort of time with an xp pot running down.

But then again if you're not already 120 wtf do they care?

 

Why in the world would they do that? It sucks Domino isn't around anymore to push back on garbage changes like that.

 

My guess? It's the best path of least work to fixing the money laundering exploit and since it doesn't have any adverse effects on their drowning-in-plat-due-to-exploit end gamers they don't give a **** about the rest of the playerbase. As usual.

 

Fuel is so dirt cheap it makes little/no difference anyway.

I'd guess somewhere on Tarinax there is someone with a LOT of fuel stored away, who is very salty right now.

 

At end game it makes little difference, but it's an annoyance for leveling a new character -- especially on a new TLE server where people don't have plat banked up.

 

Is it any wonder that the game has largely emptied out of players? It is like watching a suffering animal that needs to be put down forced to linger in agony. What a train wreck.

 

This "solution" just has Kander written all over it.

"It's just crafting, so whatever."