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Source: http://gw-truth.blogspot.com/
I put it in a quote so people will not think that you yourself wrote this ^^
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Hello reader.
I am an ex-employee of Arena.net, who has developed a popular massively multiplayer online game named Guild Wars. First thing you may question is why I have called it a MMO. Fact is there is no other product as unique as Guild Wars. It is not unique enough to define a whole new genre, and I firmly believe Guild Wars and its sequels will always be the only mainstream entry of its kind, due to its business model. This article addresses and exposes the truth behind many issues, most public, some private, and the reasoning behind the cause and effect of such issues. This article primarily concerns the game Guild Wars, but it may be an interesting read for anyone. Especially other MMO players who rarely have a chance to glimpse the inner workings of a company.
The truth may be hard to handle. I do not claim any of this as the definite truth, only my view of the truth. For all you know, I could be a rambling madman from outer space. After the public dupe outbreak incident, I felt it was my duty to reveal some truths about the company I worked for, and the game.
I will only state facts in a factual manner, and rumours or facts I have not had time to confirm in a non-factual manner. This may result in a disjointed reading. I apologize but almost every sentence in this article could be expanded upon several paragraphs. I have condensed a lot of the material. Every sentence here is extremely important, and should be read with excruciating detail. If the reader decides to re-read the article, I am sure you will find out details you missed. There is extreme anonymity in this article. I am not here to ridicule, offend, or hurt any of my peers and co-workers. I am not here to single out any individual, be it A.net employees or popular community individuals. I am only here to reveal the truth. My tone may change abruptly over sentences. I apologize, as this is a by-product of my condensation in order to save you time, and the fact my normal personality is not factual or cold. I will be using terms that most gamers will be familiar with. However if you are not, here are my own written definitions in the context of this article.
Botter = An individual using a program to automate actions in Guild Wars.
GFC = Gold Farming Company. Companies that sell Guild Wars Gold for real life cash. Their primary source of gold is from botting.
GM = Game Master. An administrator with various commands and access exclusive from normal players.
Duper = An individual that replicates the item using programs or in-game exploits.
Carebear = This is extremely hard to explain without prior MMO experience. In the context of this article, it is not used as an offensive term. It is used as a definition because I cannot articulate the specific classification of character. In context it means someone who is uncaring, laid back, and very unresponsive of learning from their mistakes. It is a very laissez faire attitude. I may not be using the French term correctly. It also fills the usual definition of uncaring of PvP.
PvP = Player vs. Player. Real life opponents fight against other real life opponents.
PvE = Player vs. Environment. Real life individuals fight against A.I. controlled opponents.
From this point forward is the factual truth.
Perhaps the most important thing to know is that A.net is run by carebears. It may surprise you I have used this derogatory term. In this context there is no offense implied by the word. As explained above this is the only term I could find that expresses extreme articulation of their behaviour. That is why certain A.net individuals have complained of too much bureaucracy. Another important thing is that this is a capitalistic world. We only perform actions that will increase our revenue. Wrongful ethics are only wrong if there is public knowledge about such ethics. Of course, we are human beings and have a human nature. If you are shocked by these truths, please know that every MMO company will probably have some aspects of these truths in their company. You just don’t know about it. Welcome to the real world.
I shall begin by addressing botting. As technology increases and Guild Wars’s popularity increases, the botters will increase. Botters are necessary for GFCs to obtain gold. Until the implementation of reconnects it was their main source of gold.
GUILD WARS ANTI-BOT MEASURES
A.net’s measures are drastically different from any other MMO. The game monitors how an individual plays. It monitors mouse activity and keystroke delays for recurring trends and irregular movements. Any keystroke, mouse movement, or click is recorded and analyzed. Chat logs are also analyzed. To be honest I found it to be “primitive programming”. But it was extremely effective. Any suspicious activity would be flagged by the system, and a GM would investigate it. They would monitor how you played, and your chat logs.
BOT BANNINGS
Now we didn’t ban accounts until the public outcries gradually became large enough for us to “care”. Why? Very simple. It required additional work. We had ties with GFCs. (I apologize for the abrupt introduction of this new information. I will expand upon it later in this article.)
We initiated several “ban floods”, much like the publicly announced 26th May 2006 affair. Obviously this was just PR material. These were waves which bot accounts would be banned. The GFCs knew the accounts that were being banned. We provided them a list of accounts that would be banned. Some GFCs were told to remake the accounts under different character names to thwart the PvE community, or remain inactive on those accounts until later periods. A majority of the accounts were shutdown. A.net and the GFCs agreed to this due to several factors. The major ones are listed below:
1) It makes the game appear “community driven”, and makes the community think we care. This would retain player interest in the game, thus preserving the gold demand. (Players would otherwise think, “Why play when bots overrun this game? It’s worthless.”)
2) Banning accounts helps our business model. Because we do not charge a monthly fee, the botters have to buy new accounts. This would be an under-the-hand transaction of the GFC’s payments into our hands, without ability to be traced back to us.
3) Most of the GFC’s accounts are protected. This means we will “ban” botters that are unprotected, usually homebrew code of players that do not work for GFCs. This provides an illusion that we are working against the botters as players have no insider knowledge of GFCs.
GFC TIES
I felt it was appropriate to explain our ties. Know that every MMO company that has a large GFC presence in their games will use this to their advantage and form an unofficial partnership to boost income. This income may not be recorded properly, or at all in financial statements. Obviously the large GFCs are much more protected than the small. Some of these connections may not even be known to higherups and seniors. We are the latter. Even if the seniors do know, they will most likely do nothing about it. It generates revenue and keeps the gold buying population happy. In all regards, it is a good thing. You may be asking the question of why we allow botters to persist and “pollute” the PVE environment, if we are the developers of the game. Why don’t we just input some commands and generate gold?
Contrary to general consensus, we do not have these commands. I believe the PR had claimed this on several occasions. To my knowledge, we have no access to these commands even if they exist. It would make sense not to. Implementation of these commands would increase backdoors into our program, and further potential of manipulation either by external hackers or internal staff. Understand this, any implementation of code allows greater potential for exploits, no matter how simple, no matter how small the effect. It allows greater control over a program.
Even if we did have these commands, there would most certainly be logs. Evidence of any kind is unfavorable to an unofficial partnership. With the anti-farm code being strengthened and re-written to be more effective (by-product of GFCs), we had to design a method that would allow us to generate large quantities of gold without noticeable evidence. The bots were simply not providing enough gold supply for the demand.
RECONNECTS
We scoured the suggestion forums for an idea. The main idea at the time was ability to reconnect due to the large amount of Err=7s occurring in game. The PvP community was a large factor in establishing that reconnects had to be established. You will probably know what we will talk about next by now. For those that do not, let me explain the situation. A couple weeks ago the reconnect feature was disabled due to players exploiting this feature in order to dupe items. The items that were mostly duped were Ectos or Armbraces of Truth, as they were high-demand, high-priced and stackable items. After the public learnt of the method, the population of dupers were too large to be ignored. Action had to be taken and it was. Thousands of accounts were banned. The damage to the economy will never truly be revealed, as these “dirty” items could’ve gone through hundreds of exchanges, through many innocent players inventories.
The exploit was intentional.
As said before, we needed a surefire way to generate mass gold supply without upsetting the players. The close circle of A.net employees that knew this information was kept airtight. This information was never leaked to the public. It is a fact. There are several theories as to how the public became to know of this information. I do not have access to A.net resources anymore, so I cannot confirm this. But this is my theory.
Duping using disconnections is not exactly new to MMOs, and is still possible in many games without third party programs. After the introduction of reconnects, several individuals who were experienced in game exploiting decide to test out whether it was possible. And to their delight, they found that it was. These individuals would obviously keep the secret to themselves, and maybe share it with their best buddies. The phrase, “In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” comes into play here. Gradually but surely, the duper population increased. Most internet personalities have an egotistical edge to them, and they were sure to brag. Somewhere along the lines the duper population increased exponentially. The rest as they say, is history. Very cliché.
During this phase, anti-farming was of great debate among PVErs. It became harder and harder for players to obtain items, and for a time the economy was stabilized. Along with botters being banned, the GFC industry looked “bleak” for Guild Wars. Of course this was simply an illusion. The GFCs used this as an excuse to raise their gold prices. As always the population bought it. It was harder for regular players to obtain gold, thus they would be pressured into buying gold. In other words we tunneled the players into GFC’s customers.
This is a lot to read for my first post, but I have hope you have read my version of the truth. My next post will be about another subject, either of my own thought or the emails I receive. Please digg this if you want to spread the truth.
I will respond to as many emails as humanly possible. It is obvious that I desire exposure to this article, otherwise I would not have written it in the first place. If you feel this truth is important and should be known, please spread it and digg it.
My email is removed emailadress.
Until next time.
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Omg. This is, by every respect, an utter bull. Let me just light on one point.
| QUOTE | Contrary to general consensus, we do not have these commands. I believe the PR had claimed this on several occasions. To my knowledge, we have no access to these commands even if they exist. It would make sense not to. Implementation of these commands would increase backdoors into our program, and further potential of manipulation either by external hackers or internal staff. Understand this, any implementation of code allows greater potential for exploits, no matter how simple, no matter how small the effect. It allows greater control over a program.
Even if we did have these commands, there would most certainly be logs. Evidence of any kind is unfavorable to an unofficial partnership. With the anti-farm code being strengthened and re-written to be more effective (by-product of GFCs), we had to design a method that would allow us to generate large quantities of gold without noticeable evidence. The bots were simply not providing enough gold supply for the demand. |
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| QUOTE | We scoured the suggestion forums for an idea. The main idea at the time was ability to reconnect due to the large amount of Err=7s occurring in game. The PvP community was a large factor in establishing that reconnects had to be established. You will probably know what we will talk about next by now. For those that do not, let me explain the situation. A couple weeks ago the reconnect feature was disabled due to players exploiting this feature in order to dupe items. The items that were mostly duped were Ectos or Armbraces of Truth, as they were high-demand, high-priced and stackable items. After the public learnt of the method, the population of dupers were too large to be ignored. Action had to be taken and it was. Thousands of accounts were banned. The damage to the economy will never truly be revealed, as these “dirty” items could’ve gone through hundreds of exchanges, through many innocent players inventories.
The exploit was intentional. |
Just think.
1.) they don't implement an easy command to generate items because it could be exploited.
2.) instead they do an intention exploit, which is a PitA to use.
Sure.
It's like a bank manager, instead of having a master password to the safe, would have people dig him an underground tunnel from the neighbour shop, hidden with a plank door.
Right.
Another note: an item duping command would allow greater control over the program? That's why it's not implemented?
One word: /bonus
It DUPES the bonus equipment items.
And people believe this. >_>
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Reasearch before accepting something like that for being true.
That 'blog' has been confirmed to be utter BS.
Gaile Gray had this to say about that 'blog':
| QUOTE | | This is an entirely bogus piece, with so much misinformation and so many lies it would take me a week to refute them all. Suffice to say, this was absolutely and positively not written by a former ArenaNet employee, and virtually every assertion he makes is provably false. I think the only fact might be that "ArenaNet made a game called Guild Wars." ;) This is the second time that someone has posted an alleged "former employee blog," and both are equally ridiculous. (Oh, by the way, "Freedom of Speech" is not relevant here, for neither ArenaNet nor NCsoft is a government agency and it is the government that is constrained by the U.S. Bill of Rights. But it is a common misconception, and I bring it up only because the mis-citation is a personal hoodoo of mine, so you can ignore that comment. What you should not ignore, however, is the absolute fact that the blog is absolutely inaccurate and utterly without value. --Gaile 05:42, 22 August 2007 (UTC) |
research.... it prevents so many confusion and lies...
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I doubted the authenticity of this.
I'd have said 'possible but improbable'. I agree with gyerekember's reasons why. After Mriswith's comment that goes down to 'highly unlikely'
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Oh, and of course the comments on the original site are moderated, so only those who agree and hail it will appear.
I'd give credit for letting this fun into my life...
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Jeez... someone must be pretty sad and pathetic to fabricate such lies.
What exactly is their aim?
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Kill boredom? Gaining attention? Who knows?
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don't get mad at me lol
I just found it and shared it, my english ain't that good to exactly know what its saying. didn't know if it was true or not. Guess not than ;)
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This was posted on other sites too, don't believe this BS.
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| QUOTE | | Carebear = This is extremely hard to explain without prior MMO experience. In the context of this article, it is not used as an offensive term. It is used as a definition because I cannot articulate the specific classification of character. In context it means someone who is uncaring, laid back, and very unresponsive of learning from their mistakes. It is a very laissez faire attitude. I may not be using the French term correctly. It also fills the usual definition of uncaring of PvP. |
aint a "carebear" a pve'r?
if so..what a jerk.
if it was interesting it would be differant but ugh, conspiricy theory this,conspiracy theory that,free reconects...bla bla bla
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I do believe it's possible he worked for anet, and perhaps he's writing out of revenge because he got fired. Anyway, it's BS
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| QUOTE | don't get mad at me lol
I just found it and shared it, my english ain't that good to exactly know what its saying. didn't know if it was true or not. Guess not than ;) |
Don't worry, we're not mad at you. :P
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I'm not saying I think it's true or that it is BS. But the simple fact is Gaile works for Anet. Of course she is going to say that it is a lie, BS, fabrication, or whatever you want to call it. Truth is, no one can be certain. I don't know the person that wrote it, neither does anyone else here. Taking the word of an Anet employee, whose job it is would be to try to put this down, seems very niave to me.
My vote on it is this....It IS a former Anet employee with an axe to grind. Some of what he/she says might be true, and some is probably BS. But I come to that conclusion from reading it and using my own RL/RW common sense, not because someone else who works for that company tells me it is a lie.
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Interesting view Rev and welcome to the GameAMP forums.
However i have to disagree with you. If you read his story carefully you will see massive contradictions to things he says. For instance; the 'keeping an eye'on the game; in one sentence he sais they see every fart you do; 2 lines later he sais 'if we would have had that kind of monitoring'.
The whole story hangs on loose ends, suspicions and gossip. IF he/she would have been an employee from Anet; the story would have been more firm instead of being written in a (he is called the Agent Mulder by people) X-file way.
The suspicion i have, of course i could be wrong, and seen the time this 'blog' appeared is that it was made by someone who has been banned for duping and now tries to put Anet in a bad light.
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*cough*Proof please*cough*
As to this:
| QUOTE | | A.net’s measures are drastically different from any other MMO. The game monitors how an individual plays. It monitors mouse activity and keystroke delays for recurring trends and irregular movements. Any keystroke, mouse movement, or click is recorded and analyzed. Chat logs are also analyzed. To be honest I found it to be “primitive programming”. But it was extremely effective. Any suspicious activity would be flagged by the system, and a GM would investigate it. They would monitor how you played, and your chat logs. |
...wtf are you running? Do you have an array of Crays recording and analyzing keystrokes? You can't understand the shear volume of data that doing this would produce. I've written sort routines that deal with tens of millions of figures analysing web server usage, the run time needed to complete analysis is huge in terms of cycles.
If you want us to believe that ANet monitor a million plus users, on the fly, 24hrs per day and analyse the data collected first give us some proof and then go get a job working for Google! If I'm wrong about all that I'd gladly eat my words and take a few lessons from you.
As for the company ethics unless you're in upper management I don't see how you can comment without seeing the big picture. I would doubt that any of us are under the impression that ANet made GW for the good of their health? It's a business, it's there to make money. If they sat around all day trying to make if perfect they'd never ship and never make a bean. Microsoft ship patches 6 months after they release Windoze, not because they are covering the holes they intended people to hack through but because they had to release their product on time and for profit.
Go read up on product life cycles and check out GEQ while you're at it.
Without proof this is nothing more than name calling by a jilted girlfriend, it's like you're saying ANet was never big enough to satisfy you purely out of spite. For all we know you could be no more than an Alpha tester who was dumped because they couldn't fill out a log sheet.
People love gossip or a good story but try for a few proven facts with the next one, a little evidence, and you might just start to draw a crowd from this devoted fanbase.
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First I believe the article is pure BS. Don't care if this was a prior a-net employee or what. As stated above the shear magnitude of data a program would have to analyze to do what they say most likely would be worth the money put into creating it.
About the GFC's. When you think about it why wouldn't a-net put their hand in that pot. It would be a great way to generate additional revenue without traceability. If anything you have to admit that part of the post was a pretty good idea from a buisness perspective. Not only that it is not the first time it has been said that
the GFCs are "working" (I use this term losely as they are not directly employed) for A-net (or blizzard in the case of WoW). Either way when you think of the buisness model it pretty ingeneous. You let them farm, they make money selling gold, now in reality you would take some off the top as your fee for letting them farm. Instead though you ban their accounts forcing them to buy new account generating legit revenue. Almost like money laundering. Now I am not saying this is true it but it is definatly a possibility. Remeber the most important fact is that ANET is a buisness and they are in it to make money.
AS for the duping stuff, not sure I believe that as it seems there has to be a better more controlable way to implement such a devious strategy.
True or not i really don't care becuase all of the above has not really effected my gameplay one bit. I like GW and even if A-net was a devious as this post implies I would still play it.
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Well said Keo, and welcome Rev.
I rekon this is a load of BS like many of the ppl above. This propbarbly came from sum1 who has a bone to pick with A-net, GW or just wants attention.
As rev said Gaile does work for A-net but I'm still more inclined to belive her than a few stories like this.
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| QUOTE | Interesting view Rev and welcome to the GameAMP forums.
However i have to disagree with you. If you read his story carefully you will see massive contradictions to things he says. For instance; the 'keeping an eye'on the game; in one sentence he sais they see every fart you do; 2 lines later he sais 'if we would have had that kind of monitoring'.
The whole story hangs on loose ends, suspicions and gossip. IF he/she would have been an employee from Anet; the story would have been more firm instead of being written in a (he is called the Agent Mulder by people) X-file way.
The suspicion i have, of course i could be wrong, and seen the time this 'blog' appeared is that it was made by someone who has been banned for duping and now tries to put Anet in a bad light. |
First of all, Thank you for the welcome.
As I stated, I don't nessacarily believe what he/she said. Have you ever been fired from a job? Were you upset, angry, disgrunteled, or whatever. I agree there are some contridictions, however things like that can occur when someone is not in the right frame of mind, ie emotions running high.
More then likely you are probably right, its just a mad banned person seeking revenge.
But....Gaile, I don't know her official position with GA, is a very good PR person. If that is what her job is, or at least some of what her job entails, then it is her job to dispell this. I think Gaile is awesome and I love it when she comes into the game. But life has taught me never take the word of one person over another without solid proof. Ecsp if that person is a representive of the company in question.
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I think this guy works for the Gold Farming Companies. It sounds like he really wants us to go out and buy gold.
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| QUOTE | | But life has taught me never take the word of one person over another without solid proof. Ecsp if that person is a representive of the company in question. |
And that is why I'm not believing a word of what the so-called ex ANet employee wrote (that's a mouthful ;-x).
I know that Gaile is a member of staff at ANet, however I have no proof whatsoever that the person who wrote all of that stuff, is.
As a result of that, I'm definitely going to trust her a little more when it comes to official GW business, than someone I know absolutely nothing about - who also doesn't appear to have a single decent word to say about the game.
Oh, and welcome to the site! ;-)
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| QUOTE | | But....Gaile, I don't know her official position with GA, is a very good PR person. If that is what her job is, or at least some of what her job entails, then it is her job to dispell this. I think Gaile is awesome and I love it when she comes into the game. But life has taught me never take the word of one person over another without solid proof. Ecsp if that person is a representive of the company in question. |
Just to confuse things further:
But what you're saying here, is that you don't believe Gaile because she has no proof that the original statement is false, and that she might just be doing her job, to smooth out the edges. But I'm confused, surely for her to have to prove anything, the original poster would have to have some solid ground to stand on. We've already discovered that he contradicts himself and keo has pointed out the logistical innacuracies with what he's said.
My theory is simple: believe the well-respected community figure over the anonymous and innacurate rumour-mongerer.
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aint a "carebear" a pve'r?
if so..what a jerk.
if it was interesting it would be differant but ugh, conspiricy theory this,conspiracy theory that,free reconects...bla bla bla |
Yes a carebear is a person who favors pve over pvp.
Onto my thoughts.
I think this is a bs blog. You throw a rock at any company and your going to find half of that stuff.
It is most likely some brat wanting attention.
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It's all a lie
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User_talk:G..._Agent_Mulder...
go down to the Agent Mulder bit
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Thats the bit i quoted in the beginning of this thread ;p
necromancer all the way
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| QUOTE | I'm not saying I think it's true or that it is BS. But the simple fact is Gaile works for Anet. Of course she is going to say that it is a lie, BS, fabrication, or whatever you want to call it. Truth is, no one can be certain. I don't know the person that wrote it, neither does anyone else here. Taking the word of an Anet employee, whose job it is would be to try to put this down, seems very niave to me.
My vote on it is this....It IS a former Anet employee with an axe to grind. Some of what he/she says might be true, and some is probably BS. But I come to that conclusion from reading it and using my own RL/RW common sense, not because someone else who works for that company tells me it is a lie. |
Even if that is the case, it's still very confusing.
But what you say is true, Gaile works for Anet, so puts up a good word, not her own fault, you'll probably get a really bad time if you do something wrong that damages the company, goes with everything.
Even if HE is a *former* employee, he tells way more then is true, and everything he tells also is very negative, sounds a bit too depressive, probably cause he's fired, cant find a job and then he lets his bad emotions write anything negative he can find and put belief in.
Neither two things are certain, that's with everything, the blogger is being overly negative, the story is "Officially" discarted as a fake, some people think not, some people do think so. Doesn't matter, the truth always will be, Anet needs to make profit, and although i do think the mass banning = more gamers buying new-accounts sounds utterly fake, you will never know. Me myself found that statement a bit too extreme, if that was the real case, Anet is probably running on its last funds, which i dont think is exactly true, so no need to do such a thing.
In my honest opinion, i deem the blog fake save for the ''human nature'' & ''Anet made Guild Wars'' things, even Anet's office doesn't have robots controlling it, but i doubt their doing evil schemes there.
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This story is total BS because:
1.Why would we miss something in that whole blog?
2.He didn't even mention how he even worked for A-net, for all we know he could the janitor.
3.This is probably a guy who wants attention or just a hate blog just because he fired.
EDIT:All the ADs on the side of his page...CHEATS AND GOLD SELLERS
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Unless its on an Official GW Site, its all just BS to me.
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| QUOTE | Another note: an item duping command would allow greater control over the program? That's why it's not implemented?
One word: /bonus
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I have the hourglass staff on a few of my heroes on the same character, if were alloed to do this, is it aganst the EULA, because it says you can let your heroes use bonus items, but if i use /bonus again after putting an item on a hero, u can make the item again so is this bad i dont wanna get banned for a simple mistake.
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | Another note: an item duping command would allow greater control over the program? That's why it's not implemented?
One word: /bonus
It DUPES the bonus equipment items. |
I have the hourglass staff on a few of my heroes on the same character, if were alloed to do this, is it aganst the EULA, because it says you can let your heroes use bonus items, but if i use /bonus again after putting an item on a hero, u can make the item again so is this bad i dont wanna get banned for a simple mistake. |
Heh, you think you can get banned for everything you do don'tcha?
Well, you can't :) It is not considered Duping.
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | Another note: an item duping command would allow greater control over the program? That's why it's not implemented?
One word: /bonus
It DUPES the bonus equipment items. |
I have the hourglass staff on a few of my heroes on the same character, if were alloed to do this, is it aganst the EULA, because it says you can let your heroes use bonus items, but if i use /bonus again after putting an item on a hero, u can make the item again so is this bad i dont wanna get banned for a simple mistake. |
No no no, its completely different, sure you can make as many as you want but you cant sell,Merch or Salvage. so it doesnt affect anything. No worries there
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