¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So what, just wipe the server, lose portion of already established pop, people determined to find (x) exploit to get an advantage will continue to find (x) exploit in different places and you'll be back at step 1, with less actual players and probably more or less bots and a already dead server that has no future to begin with. I mean I guess there really isn't any simple or more logical approaches to this like, idk: remove the achievement feature or remove gift boxes tied to early level achievements since it's a character progress system rather then an "account" progress system, nah just wipe it all; we'll surely attract more players that way. I've watched this game develop over the last decade and this game has gotten easier to play and it still feels rewarding to change job classes or get that RNG drop, but.
All I see is "wah wah wah, people exploiting and here I am on my soap box and no one understands how dumb this exploit is" without an actual sense of dedication or purpose. What do you get personally if this server gets wiped, congratulations you set a bunch of people back a week. Worst case scenario is that you lose some of your current population without actually resolving any issues because you didn't go with idk, removing the whole exploit system. Best case scenario is that you maintain your nostalgic "OLDSCHOOL RO WHERE EVERYTHING IS HARD TO DO" for another meager week.
KP Coupon Codes? Finite resource, once all the coupons are depleted, oh well - that's why it was called a headstart promotion, as for the websites that distributed them - they did not do well in safeguarding against abuse, and to be honest those websites are not there to prevent abuse, it's just a news website trying to get traffic to new or old games and making revenue from ads. Not to say WP couldn't just generate more codes. In hindsight, that's on WP's end to fix, maybe they should've thought about that themselves. They certainly had their innocent hearts in the right place by trying to goad players back into this ancient game.
And by the way, I checked - you can only use one per game account and you can't spend them on WoE Boxes and transfer them to one account/character. They're account bound as soon as they're purchased. Congratz, you have 3 different game accounts with nontransferable White and Blue WoE Potions
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Alright lets sit down and assume, cause you know what happens to you and I when you assume; Player A spends their whole day farming these gift boxes and makes a net profit of "millions of zeny" and so called phat stax of Oridecon and Elunium, with nothing to use it on. Maybe they get a Santa Poring Card too, congratz; they can go hunt shadow monsters now with their crap NPC gear.
Alright, now Player B, plays the game normally, getting equipment, cards, and all the usual items normally. Sure, Player A has millions of zeny, but what are they gonna spend it on? Player B is at the mercy of RNG to drop something good, and then they have to figure out whether they need it for their character or not - and if they don't they have to create some arbitrary number amount as to how much they should sell it for and hope that's what Player A will pay.
And to be honest, I'm a casual player that played P2P iRO Loki before Transcendent and 3rd Classes, even way before Renewal Update. Yes, I played this game back when I had to pay for a monthly subscription. This game was a lot harder back then, and the only game RO had to compete with was, what - Runescape? World of Warcraft? Ultimate Online? Are you gonna get off your high horse and actually propose a more viable solution rather then just, I don't know, slowly demeaning and mocking those who are attempting to even remotely communicate with you by saying that a wipe is essentially the only thing we have worth giving a shot.
We had bots back then too you know; what no way. PEOPLE PAID MONEY for their accounts that they used for Botting, to MAKE MONEY via RMTs. Nooooo way.
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Gonna have to agree with Tanzanito here because all you're trying to do is create a witch hunt and stir some unnecessary drama feelsbadman.jpg Like seriously though, It's a classic server with renewal mechanics and features, it isn't even oldschool RO. Oldschool 2003-era RO didn't have KP shops, we didn't have wikis and databases. I don't even know what you expected "Oh everybody is good natured and just gonna play this game like normal human beings without any malicious intent." Yeah okay. I expected this to be different as soon as I realized that this was not a true classic server, the fact that we had a KP shop in-itself is already game breaking, even if it only offered cosmetic items.
Edited by Shiratara, 03 July 2017 - 04:58 AM.
! I just purchased one month VIP. Time to quit so fast ... damn lol
