Ban di un mese (o anche definitivi) per chi ha sfruttato il glitch dei reset!
Durante la giornata di ieri abbiamo parlato del bug al reset delle istanze che sembra venire “abusato” da molti giocatori, che attraverso questo glitch hanno più volte resettato una stessa istanza al fine di “spolverare” tutti i loot e le ricompense disponibili.
Come confermato anche nel precedente update, sono in arrivo delle punizioni esemplari per tutti i giocatori che hanno scientemente approfittato del bug per trarne un vantaggio anche se non si sapeva ancora di che tipo di sanzioni si trattasse.
Oggi però il community manager Lore ha spiegato nel dettaglio in cosa rischiano di incappare i giocatori beccati ad imbrogliare e, soprattutto, è stata fatta chiarezza rispetto a quali siano le situazioni che differenziano un giocatore che ha sfruttato il bug senza che se ne rendesse conto, da quello che invece l’ha sfruttato ed abusato per ottenere il massimo beneficio possibile.
Come spesso accade in questi casi, anche per il problema del glitch dei reset la discriminante è “l’intenzionalità” dei giocatori: infatti, incappando casualmente in un raid resettato farà si che non accada nulla al nostro account; di contro però, se Blizzard dovesse riuscire a dimostrare che un giocatore ha provato ad abusare del glitch si rischia da un mese di ban fino alla sospensione definitiva del proprio account.
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Soooooo since I’m seeing a lot of confusion (here and elsewhere), here’s some insight into how we draw the line between what makes something a punishable exploit versus a “happy little accident.”
The key factor here is intent. Did the player do something with the specific intention of causing a glitch to occur, and did they do it order to exploit said glitch for their own benefit?
This recent glitch makes a pretty clean example. The players who were abusing it had to do some Very Weird Stuff to cause it to occur, and then did so repeatedly. No reasonable person would expect that this behavior was intended, and the players involved had to go out of their way to cause it. It’s obviously unintended, it’s obviously a glitch, and the people who abused it were obviously exploiting said glitch for their own benefit. That’s pretty open and shut.
Someone mentioned Esfand’s random MC reset in this thread, which is a pretty clean example of the other end of the spectrum. In that case, they just turned up to raid and the instance had been reset. They didn’t do anything intentional to cause it or go looking for reproduction steps so they could abuse it – in fact, they reported it to us and didn’t continue until they got confirmation that it was out of their control (and that we wouldn’t consider it an exploit if they cleared).
Side note for the curious: that was a completely separate bug that has existed since 2004, and actually happened several times back then, it just wasn’t being broadcast to thousands of viewers at the time.
Obviously, neither situation is ideal – we try our best to provide a fair playing field for everyone – but there’s a pretty massive difference between “the instance is reset and we don’t know why” and “if we do this One Weird Trick we can infinitely farm this dungeon boss.” That’s the key factor that turns something from an accident into an exploit.
This ended up being longer than I expected so I’ll wrap it up with one last caveat: there is a lot of context and nuance that goes into these situations, and they’re not usually as cut and dry as these two examples. We end up making a lot of judgement calls based on the specifics of each exploit as well as their overall impact on the game (the phrase “clever use of game mechanics” originally came from one such convoluted situation). These two cases just happen to be pretty obvious.
Continua quindi il pugno duro di Blizzard contro i “furbacchioni” che volevano mettere da parte qualche pezzo di item in più…voi cosa ne pensate?
