Guild Wars 2 weapon exploit leads to 3,000 perma-bans

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Around 3,000 Guild Wars 2 perma-bans have been dished out to players who "intentionally and repeatedly" exploited a bug in the game enabling them to craft high level weapons at "one thousandth of their normal price".

According to PC Gamer an emergency patch has now closed the loophole, which developer ArenaNet described as the "first example of a widespread exploit in the game".
Lead producer Chris Whiteside said on Reddit that, just this once, the studio will offer to convert permanent bans to 72-hour suspensions.

We take our community and the integrity of the game very seriously, and want to be clear that intentionally exploiting the game is unacceptable. The players we banned were certainly intentionally and repeatedly exploiting a bug in the game.

We intended to send a very clear message that exploiting the game in this way will not be tolerated, and we believe this message now has been well understood.

We also believe and respect that people make mistakes. With this in mind, we are offering the members of our community who exploited the game a second chance to repair the damage that has been done.

This is a first and final warning. Moving forward, please make sure you that when you see an exploitable part of the game, you report it and do not attempt to benefit from it.

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/365862/guild-wars-2-weapon-exploit-leads-to-3000-perma-bans/

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FNGPosted:

Legalize
-Khalifaa-
Dubai It dose say that you will get banned if you abuse bugs/glitches


Exactly. I don't know why people thought they would get away with it.


well they took the risk they get the ban hammer to the face


Yeah, they take the chances so they get the rightful consequences.

FNGPosted:

3,000!
That's crazy, I suppose they deserved it though.

XMEPosted:

SovietGnome Dam, its the developers fault. Why do they punish the customers with their bad coding.


Because they don't want to man up and take it from there mistakes

SovietGnomePosted:

Dam, its the developers fault. Why do they punish the customers with their bad coding.

LegalizePosted:

-Khalifaa-
Dubai It dose say that you will get banned if you abuse bugs/glitches


Exactly. I don't know why people thought they would get away with it.


well they took the risk they get the ban hammer to the face

LegalizePosted:

Iglesias This happens with every game. Although I have never been caught from exploits lol.


knock on wood

TywinPosted:

Dubai It dose say that you will get banned if you abuse bugs/glitches


Exactly. I don't know why people thought they would get away with it.

TywinPosted:

They I wonder if the poeple who got banned had everything reset or not.


I would imagine being they are perm-banned.

SecretlyPosted:

They This is why I never exploit any glitches that will give me an advantage.


Yup! There is always Consqences.

LitePosted:

Some one got the axe for this talk about mistakes!