Well, then I think it would be safe to say that had you severely exploited the vendor over the weekend, then you probably might have lost that scrip and gotten your 24 hour timeout. I am sure there are several players in the same boat - they just logged into the game minding their own business, don't go on the forums or look at the web site much, and suddenly, they come across a vendor that is offering untold riches (so to speak). So they go ahead, without questioning, and make a few million scrip off the vendor. Now they get their timeout and loose all the scrip. However, there is an old adage:Quote:
Originally Posted by williamarmistace
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
It sucks to be them, but sometimes one has to learn a lesson the hard way. Now, perhaps in the future, when something like this occurs, they will question why the vendor is doing what it is doing and err on the side of caution until they are told it is either OK or not OK to do something. The school of hardknocks - it's not always a bad thing. And truth be told, this is a fairly light punishment - I have seen other games punish players far worse for much less.
That could be one of the very reasons why this punishment amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist. This is the first time that such a mass "wave" of bannings have really hit the game, or at least come to the forefront. As for all those people using other examples of what may or may not be exploits - that is up to Trion to decide, as well as what they will eventually do about it. Cry hypocritical all you want, but again, other games have done similar things in the past. So all it comes down to is play with common sense - when something appears to be different in game, perhaps you should question it first before blindly jumping in again .... and again .... and again .... and again .... and again .... see where I am going with this?
People speed when they are driving all the time. I know I do it (sometimes, not always, ahh well only once in a great while ;P), but what happens when I ... I mean they they finally get pulled over. They still get punished. Doesn't matter how many times they got away with it in the past, or how many people are speeding by while the cop writes you the ticket, you just have to accept the consequences of your actions, no matter how many times you got away with it previously. And just because millions of people get away with speeding every day doesn't give someone a free pass to go steal their neighbor's lawn furniture.
