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The Elder Scrolls Online faced its first major bug over the weekend which allowed guild members to infinitely duplicate items through the guild banking system. Zenimax has had to shutdown the feature for now while it fixes the error.
Since TESO is an MMO, keeping the economy balanced is very important. Grand Theft Auto Online faced a similar problem during its early days, players were able to generate millions in cash and would then run around servers handing out infinite amounts of money to other players, allowing users to buy whatever they wanted while avoiding missions and micro-transactions.
Rockstar banned users for abusing the money bug and Zenimax plans on doing the same thing with its game:
“Yesterday, we identified an item duping bug in ESO that some players chose to exploit. We acted quickly, and have since fixed the issue. We have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to abusing exploitable bugs, and those who were found doing so will have their game account permanently banned.”
There is a zero tolerance policy but the decision to permanently ban players has gamers a little torn, some think that permanently banning these players is the only option while others think that a ban may be too harsh and that Zenimax should reset their gold and items instead.
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KitGuru Says: I've been playing The Elder Scrolls Online for a few days now and I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. What do you guys think of the game? Or even Zenimax's decision to permanently ban everyone who exploited the bug?
Source: Game Informer
I completely understand why Zenimax would go to such lengths on a problems like this but I do think a permanent ban is too harsh. These things happen and at the end of the day its Zenimax’s fault and with something like this you’re going to expect a major part of the community to be exploiting bugs. A full reset on the account would have been far more appropriate especially with subscription games.
I can see them perma-banning if the game was free to play, but seeing as it requires payment I would be inclined to not buy or play the game if that is how they handle people finding… and “proving” there actually is a bug. They should reset their gold/items and write the people a thank you note for finding the bug. Maybe even compensate them for taking away all their ill-gotten, but justly earned gold.
ya know what.. they all got what they deserved. they all knew what they were doing was wrong and that taking advantages of a known bug and abusing it was wrong. If they didn;t want a perm ban then they should have used even just a LITTLE common sense and NOT ABUSED THE BUG. period. plain and simple. you take advantage of a known exploit you can pay the price…. which just happens to be your account.