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Old 9th November 2006, 02:37 PM   #1
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400 accts banned!!!

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After a month-long investigation and a thorough review of all involved, EA:

• banned more than 400 accounts,
• deleted more than 100,000 illegally duplicated items, and
• deleted more than one trillion in gold.

More importantly, the bugs that allowed this particular kind of illegal duplication have been fixed. Also, duping and exploit prevention/detection systems have been in place for some time now - systems that help us to identify and eliminate cheaters.

We take all forms of cheating extremely seriously, especially cheats that affect the in game economy and devalue the hard work of honest players. We will never stop investigating and solving these issues, and appreciate very much those of you who contribute to the fight against cheating. We’ve had to keep these developments quiet until we completed our investigations, but we are very proud to be able to make this announcement today.
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Old 9th November 2006, 06:10 PM   #2
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Much Thanks to the Devs and Everyone responsible for making UO a better place. Keep up the good work.
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Old 9th November 2006, 06:12 PM   #3
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Re: 400 accts banned!!!

*claps & nods*

Good. That's twice in one year that they've gone through great effort to purge the game of duped trash and those who created it. If I understand this correctly, this is all largely a manual operation on their part as well, so many thanks to the staff for their effort.
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Old 9th November 2006, 06:48 PM   #4
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Re: 400 accts banned!!!

Yup Good riddance. All of the vendors I had previously suspected are now gone, and I'm very pleased.
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Old 9th November 2006, 07:41 PM   #5
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Wowzer! Go EA!
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Old 9th November 2006, 08:19 PM   #6
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Excellent news!

I hope that those punished feel sufficiently admonished.
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Old 9th November 2006, 08:36 PM   #7
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Yay!!! EA cleaned up the trash that was laying around =P Bwhaha darn dupers gone and there fake items along with them!

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Old 9th November 2006, 09:36 PM   #8
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Why do i see duped shrouds all over still?
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Old 9th November 2006, 09:47 PM   #9
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Re: 400 accts banned!!!

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Originally Posted by Wilki"
Well, allow me to head off the "I was banned for having one item" type of posts now.

We didn't target players who bought a duped item or three. These are people who were actually duping, or who were selling a lot of duped items. While they might not have duped themselves, that doesn't excuse the fact that they were spreading this garbage throughout the game, or that everyone knows where those 100 high end items in the same loaction in a bag came from. You'll probably see some well known Luna vendor houses and item sellers/brokers suddenly be "out of stock."

Also, shrouds are a whole other project. But maybe you'll now believe me when I say that we will be taking care of the issue :-)

Also, shrouds are a whole other project. But maybe you'll now believe me when I say that we will be taking care of the issue :-)

I am sure Wilki hasn't forgotten.
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I dunno...it's great they are deleting the junk. But when they deleted the last 30 mil duped gold or whatever they said it was 'fixed' then too. Now there is another trillion? What next?
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"crawl... walk..... run......" Everything has to be done in phases.
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Re: 400 accts banned!!!

WOOT! I'm happy about it. It's a nice step in the right direction.
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