[[Update] Item Removal from Moontide Outfit Exploit]

On 9/18/2020 at 2:34 AM, Morrjgan said:

Well said Didone!

 

By now everything has been said, I am not a kid and I have been playing MMORPG online since the very first. I've never seen such crap.

Ticket are useless, no one will consider our posts on this forum.

 

Guys, let's stop giving them money. NOT A PENNY ANYMORE! Ironically, it would make more sense to spend on Candy Crash.
Let's sabotage their desperate milking.

 

As long as you resist putting up with this shame, play for free and when you are definitely annoyed you quit for good.
New beautiful non-NCsoft games are coming!

 

For years I have spent what to me is a lot of money on Blade and Soul. But spending your hard-earned money requires mutual respect and trust, and how they handled this shows that there is neither respect nor trust.
Don't let anyone disrespect you!

 

I sincerely recommend, think about it ... no more pay to be fooled

sadly they are already turning the page by releasing new content and trying to grab more money... and more ppl will b fooled as old players leave and new/returning players come, this is the internet age, goldfish memory, and they know it and abuse it

[[Update] Item Removal from Moontide Outfit Exploit]

On 2020/8/31 at 9:49 AM, Cupidstar said:

This was extremely badly handled from the beginning.

 

First, the "exploit": What exploit?

You (NCSoft) made a mistake of selling an outfit for 2 threads.

That outfit, when salvaged, produced 10 threads.

This is all using mechanics implemented ingame by NCSoft, so, don't know which "exploit" it is.

(It isn't a bug either: you were buying it at the adjusted price, which was the same price that was being shown)

This could be done on an unmodified client: no mods, no bugs, no glitches, no exploits, no tricks, no hacks, no attacks, no injection, no mitm ...

Just a plain unmodified version, by buying 1 item and salvaging. <-- How is this an exploit?

(This assumes the computer security meaning for the word "exploit". Check Wikipedia.)

Everything was intended by you (NCSoft).

 

Second, the public announcement: Why?

So, you (NCSoft) know you've made a mistake.

You closed down the servers for an emergency maintenance, made the mistake public, exposed steps to reproduce and didn't fix the mistake before opening the servers?

You do know that you're supposed to clean up the mistakes before announcing them publicly?

 

Third, the "clean up": Could it be handled better?

Well, yes!

In very simple steps:

1. Create a new currency (lets call it "wool")
2. Change the threads cost to the new "wool"
3. Since you know those who bought the outfit for the new value, and how much they bought, you could automatically convert the threads that were paid for into this "wool" item
4. Those that bought the outfits at the reduced price and had a stock of threads would still have the expired threads, which would be useless
5. You could change the price of the "wool" to a bit higher and nobody would notice, or very few would, earning you a little bit more

And you could just have a lot less work, have it done a lot cleaner, faster and without messing with people's paid stuff.

 

Lets hope that you (NCSoft) handle the next mistake without messing with people's earned stuff.

lolol how many people want to wait until the NEXT mistake to quit? And if they do they probably figured out how to do it so that they get max benefit out of it from this experience so no punishment would affect them. I totally agree with the initial solution of closing down for emergency maintenance before  announcing it but again NCSoft has no brains (as you can see from this event) so I would encourage people still working for them to find a new job before you get labelled as dumb by the industry because you work for them

[[Update] Item Removal from Moontide Outfit Exploit]

@Himejust great solution lol... I didn't know there was a bug and it didn't break out until days later... so now I'm being punished for legit purchases from faction chat and F5 for both pet and soulstone because you didn't do your job right? I also bought outfits unknowingly before the exploit broke out but now clearly those players knew about it already so I paid for 30,000 or maybe more for outfits that I should have exploited... totally "discouraging" players to "NOT" exploit. Yes costumes are causing problems, but they are only part of it since I traded with people in faction and they paid with pets instead of gold and I was nice enough to help them regardless... so I should never do that from now on and just let this game die then, thanks a lot for boosting my determination to look into filing lawsuit against this company that steals from the player and cannot mismanage any more than it is now (or maybe I'm underestimating?) This is just such a big joke now LMAO why am I even paying for this when it will just rob me anyways?

[Cannot Log In: error 204 or stuck at connecting]

16 minutes ago, Nombei said:

I have the same issue. I couldn't accept weekly quests, even when talking to the npc, logged out, and now I'm either stuck at "Connecting" or it says I logged in from another computer.

at least im not alone, good to know. mayb thats the reason for the maintainance tmr since they know there are issues after the migration

[Cannot Log In: error 204 or stuck at connecting]

Just happened now, I was in game and could not get quest, so I tried again to esc and talk to the npc again. Then I realized it is a connection issue, so I tried to re-log but now I cannot log on due to error 204 or I can go past the agreement screen but when I click on the character to play it shows "connecting" but will not go past that screen. Anyone else? What should I do? I did restart my computer and check my internet connection (I can send this probably proves one of those at least).