Digimonk wrote on Mar 1
st, 2018 at 12:25pm:
Do people really expect that SSG will actually not roll the toons back to pre-exploit status with extreme prejudice or even roll them back and delete half their shit just to teach them a lesson? This stuff was widespread. It was a big enough deal that they actually violated their own "we do not discuss exploits and disciplinary measures" policy on the mobos and posted an explanation of what they were doing about it. If they're serious about not allowing exploits, they pretty much have to make an example out of this.
If SSG chose not to do major rollbacks on the exploiters, it would set a really bad precedent that exploiting early and often does indeed pay and pay well. They caught a good bit of shit from the general population on the mobos when they didn't come down hard enough on the AS exploiters a while back. I doubt they'll repeat that mistake.
This particular exploit was around for a while, and reversing it (in some cases, at least) might not be as simple or straightforward as you seem to be implying; do we know for a fact that they have the technology to rollback individual characters to December (which is when at least one person claimed he was doing it)? What if someone exploited for half a life in December and then did 5 lives legit since then? What if he exploited for one level in November and did 8 legit lives since then? Even if you want to make a case for "hitting them hard" and removing everything characters have done post-exploit,
it's entirely possible that they simply don't possess the capability to restore characters to a state several months and half a dozen lives ago. I'd actually assume that they don't.It was way easier (albeit time consuming) for them to log on accounts that got banned for duping and go hunting for stacks in their bags than it would be to roll characters or accounts back.
It's easy to say that a character that was created for the express purpose of exploiting past lives to get a playable alt should be deleted, and it's very possible that they'll follow through with that as per the "egregious offender" part of Cordo's post. It's a lot more difficult to figure out what they should do (or even what they
can do) in more complicated situations.
Taking all of that into consideration? Yes, I think it
extremely likely that at least some people who exploited will come back from their bans having retained at least some of the benefits from said exploit.
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