800+ Account Suspended Part 2 and Thank You gifts
/Mepps has provided an update today regarding the 800+ accounts that were banned. To catch up on the original post, click here.
Below is the new post from Mepps regarding the punishments given to those accounts that have been banned.
Further Account Actions Taken Today
After careful review, we have decided to move forward with the following actions to address the fallout from this exploit.
We will remove all exploited experience gains. Regardless of whether someone exploited a little or a lot, all items will have the exploited experience deducted from their current totals.
We will permanently ban the most egregious exploiters, repeat offenders, and dummy accounts made just for exploiting. This will be a much smaller number than we initially anticipated based on further investigation and because...
We will remove all experience on items that received exploited experience in excess of 10% of their total - for the currently suspended accounts, if those suspensions are not converted into permanent bans. That means those items will be reset to 0 experience and all progress will be lost. For most players/items, this is a tremendous loss of experience that far outweighs the attempted illegitimate gains.
We believe these actions send a strong message that we take this behavior seriously and that there are significant consequences for choosing to violate our terms of service.
We are not moving forward with the blanket permanent bans because of the nature of the exploit and the number of first-time offenders with high playtimes. In many ways, logging in to see your experience vaporized should be more devastating than simply moving on, and we believe this action is a more proportional response.
So while there still seems to be Bans that will be going out. We are not certain how many of those will be and the recent Forum Guidelines changes seems to certain prepare those that may still have harsh words that the Developers are not going to take things lightly. With those coming back to the game they will either see those items used for exploit have their experience lowered or drastically reset to 0 to start the leveling all over again.
In the same post, the Devs have decided to give a Thank You Gift to all users not suspended. Below are those items.
And Also Gifts!
Finally, the team wants to thank everyone who did not take part in this exploit and everyone who helped us track it down.
Exploiters were a small fraction of the community, but everyone had to deal with the disabled systems and confusion. We understand how frustrating those days after launch were and how frustrating it is the exploit made it to live in the first place.
So, everyone (not suspended) can log in to claim another free gift to help with fortification:
6500 Ally Favor
1 Reinforced Nth Metal
1 Perfected Exobyte Mega Pack
1 Seal of Completion
2 Seal of Preservation Packs
35 Source Marks
Thank you again for your patience and support. Let's get back to saving the world.
Players must log in and claim this thank-you gift by January 19, 2022. Accounts currently suspended will remain suspended until January 20, 2022. No gifts for you.
It could be seen as those accounts that are currently suspended will be returning on January 20th. Unfortunately, these accounts will not be receiving these items. So log in and get more free gifts and we’ll see some players return.