Ooorrrrr the bannings happened late at night and the developers and other important people didn't hear about it until the next morning. Then they had to do some research to find out what the CSRs did, some more research to find out what really happened, double-check that there was an error, and then work to find out what to do about it.
I'm not seeing what the exploit actually was, so... this news post is pretty one-sided. I'm not expecting a lot here in terms of journalistic integrity, but I'd like to know a bit more about what's really going on before I pass personal judgment.
Permadeath is fine, as long as there is plenty of logging for when a character dies, because complaints *will* be filed for every death - "he cheated", or a million variations on that theme, will be reported.
I imagine that there'll be something to let the player start off with some of the stuff their old character had, if they went that route.
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Sep 30th 2010 11:35AM (Massively)I imagine that there'll be something to let the player start off with some of the stuff their old character had, if they went that route.
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