Hi, all.
We want to keep you informed of what happened, what we are doing, and what we plan on doing.
First, yesterday a lot of popular items and items from the Kafra Shop were bought out in large quantities very quickly by a few accounts. These accounts were sitting on enough zeny to pull this off because they were apart of several accounts currently involved in zeny selling and account buying. Our GMs began removing their accounts at the end of last week, and had removed 20 million zeny that they had been stockpiling. The accounts then used the zeny they had moved around to inflate the prices on the Auction House by buying up items and selling them. Since they were sitting on so much zeny, players who were playing legitimately participated by listing their items for hundreds of zeny, and these illegitimate accounts were buying them up.
We have taken care of the accounts responsible for hijacking the Auction House prices and raising the cost of items. Our GMs are going through players who accumulated a lot of zeny to make sure they did it appropriately and not by a method that is against the rules.
Removing the accounts that had a nearly endless amounts of zeny will stop this from occurring again. We have the studio working on methods to better track issues like this, and they came in early in Korea to help us with that.
We hope to see the prices come down in the Auction House for these items now that the endless flow of zeny has been cut off. We don't want to issue a roll back for the game because we don't want to punish unknowing players who saw an item listed high and decided to match the price with their own.
Our investigation is not over, and we are working on more methods to bring the market back and keep it maintainable, but we wanted to update you on what had occurred and that we are working to fix it.
Thank you for the updated information, nothing worse than being left out in the dark.
As a retaliation measure, this was a genius move from the Gold Farmers. This has upset a lot of people, who were already uncertain about investing themselves
into this fledgling game. I guess the idea was along the lines of, if you stop us from selling our gold in your game, we will stop your game. So you did what you thought was right, took care of these accounts with massive amounts of Zeny. However they have pumped ungodly amounts into the economy, by purchasing things for inflated prices on the AH. The economy that was already broken, is now i feel reaching the point of no return. As for *appropriately* selling your goods in the AH, i fail to see any rules able to be broken in that regard. Your free to charge what you like, so i fail to see the method that is against the rules.
The margin between rich and poor was already large, after the fusion update that gap widened. After this......
I personally will no longer be playing without a rollback. There was far too much Zeny injected into the system legitimately.(Not including it's source) The many people who
have benefited from this event, will forever have the upper hand in any Zeny driven endeavour.
I had high hopes for this MMO, but there has been far too many major issues in such a short space of time to ignore them any longer.
My optimism has died.
I wish you guys all the best