**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Bans for Exploiting Bugs [MERGED THREADS]
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Most people in the original forum post about this event were extremely confused about the logistics of this event, Kabam Boo had to answer quite a few questions and add clarifications that spanned many pages of forum posts. Not everyone has the time/attention span to read pages and pages of comments on a thread in the forums to understand what they “should” or “shouldn’t” be able to do in the game.
The in-game message had even less information than the forum post, and most people don’t go to the forums, they just use the in game mail and instructions. Reading the forums shouldn’t be required to avoid punishment/bans. Should they read the TOS? Sure. Nobody does but that’s not a valid excuse. Not reading the forums is valid and understandable.
Given that Kabam made a mistake (this shouldn’t be debatable, they had a bug that they didn’t catch which allowed an exploit), it is perfectly understandable that people could be confused about what “should” be happening in the quest, particularly so given how confusing and limited the information on this quest was in the first place.
It is easy to see how someone could run the quest two or three times not understanding this. Those that kept on running it, over and over, not so much.
Tbh, if I hadn’t taken 30-45 minutes to go through the forum and figure out what was going on in the quest, I would have had no idea that getting repeat rewards was not intended, and I’ve played this game for 5 years. I would have probably made the same mistake.
C’mon Kabam, banning people for completing this 2 or 3 times is a little ridiculous, even for you.
*sorry for typos, typing on a phone.
Even if you are in a rush and forget the lock the door does not give a robber an excuse to rob you. Also there are a lot of people who do not lock their doors because they feel safe (country people)..
In addition I can tell you are not a programmer, because it does not work that way, especially for complex code. There are so many possible paths for bugs developers cannot find all the bugs. There is not a single bit of complex code without bugs in it, and if you exploit that code you can get into trouble. Tell the cops that it is your banks fault their ATM had a bug you exploited to get more money then in your account, the court will still throw you in jail AND make you pay it back.
I was following the awesome map thread so i knew what was where for the most part (thanks Cat)
And I never once thought about knocking out some runs.
Not only was it not ethical but any player who has been around 6 months or more could see the ban hammer swinging from above, getting ready to drop.
If you ran more than 1 extra time, you knew what you were doing and you were just hoping Kabam would let it slide.
Now yall whining cause you have to enjoy the full benefit of the consequences of your behavior and taking accountability is hard.
I diddnt cheat, my account isnt banned, im not sweating it, and im gonna go work on some EQ, V5, and get ready for AW.
Ooh I almost forgot, I took Bwcv to R5 today (legitimately), total beast for v5.
@Arsoz made an analogy that didn't hold up. I was just showing them that it didn't hold up.
Context clues, darling. Context clues.