Revaulting wrote on Jul 17
th, 2017 at 4:44pm:
SSG made the item. 100% culpability.
More importantly, they made the items, made changes to the system that broke said items, then left those items broken for months without doing a damned thing about it. Then they randomly get a hair up their ass one day and decide to retroactively fuck anyone who put time, effort, resources, and potentially real $$ into acquiring some of these items. Yes, it's 100% on them and the poor way they always handle cleaning up their own mistakes.
They had multiple options for better ways to handle that shitshow. As usual, they chose one of the worst.
They could have removed those items from the loot tables as soon as they realized they were broken. They could have even just changed the wondrous items to BTAoA as soon as they realized the problem. That would have prevented the AH fiasco.
They could have fixed new ones going forward and left the current ones as is since they took so damned long to fix them. It's not like a small amount of those items floating around was breaking or ruining the game in any way.
But nope, they chose the "fuck them" option as usual.