I understand that AO has had a large target when it comes to exploiting, especially more than other games, but I don’t think wiping all sunkens will resolve anything. The problem would still be there, and entire new sunkens wil be duped. It is better to have the economy suffer than to have all players’ sunkens wiped, causing a large portion of players to quit. Vetex should find the issue, solve it, probably remove any items in the game from that specific player and other exploiters (if possible), and just keep it moving.
At best, it’s a bandaid solution to a problem that’ll just continue after the wipe.
At worst, it’s punishing players who spent hours upon hours getting sunkens legitimately, massively more than dupers, who’ll just continue to dupe on a new account as if nothing had happened.
It’d make more sense to just disable trading until a fix can be found.
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Vetex on his way to wipe sunkens(they take days, weeks, sometimes even months just to get one)
I’ve sneezed smarter moves than wiping Sunkens, or any item, really. It’s a “fix” that will last for less time than the Gizmondo, since all it takes is for one duper to get lucky with fishing or trading, find another duping method, and make all the Sunken items they want. I also hate anything to do with punishing people who got them legitimately.
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bruh
This is a horrible idea. Its just a shitty bandaid patch that harms the people that worked for it more than the dupers
We got it under control, so it hasn’t gotten out of hand. I understand the stress, but what vetex said is really only a last resort.
Gems were wiped because they were MASS produced and distributed by exploiters, while sunkens haven’t gotten anywhere near that point.
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I wouldn’t quit AO because of this but it would definitely leave a bad taste. Majority of the community spent huge amounts of time farming for this, wiping it just like that because of a few people would be very disrespectful towards our time.
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ngl i dont really care about the items wipes that much partially because how i view the game
like i pretty much see ao as a beta test so i dont really treat it as anything more, not saying its not good in its current state
no pls noooo
Thing is he’s just giving dupers a permanent goal to work towards now instead of temporarily affecting the economy…
it would be funny to see the already broken economy break even more
what else do we do
SUNKENS ARE DEAD.
SEASONALS ARE FUEL.
SERVERS ARE FULL.
this is a full reply forums stop bullying me
yeah
Maybe we should pay more closer attention to these guys If we don’t want our crap to be wiped lol.
Isn’t identifying the duper and deleting all items with his/her name enough? Why the need for global wipe?
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Since I’m grinding gems as well, might as well ask…
How much r we talking about here. Like how much were there. 100? 200?
vetex try to fix his game instead of wiping progress challenge (impossible)
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I sure do hope what vetex said was “heat-of-the-moment” type response, because, as said verbatim, it’s a stupid move and doesn’t fix the issue. it’s fighting fire with fire; going for the nuclear option without considering less destructive choices.
now I myself may have not been much involved in the sunken grind during wom, but I know of many community members who’ve put in a lot of investment into fishing. it’s quite obvious that wiping sunkens (even as a last resort) amounts to nothing but create more complaints and doesn’t hit the target it’s supposed to hit in the first place.
it’s moments like these where vetex should really think about what he says, because it affects the future of his game