So? Blizzard does that all the time.

Anyway, time for a celebration!

>>26179575

You obviously didn't read anything besides the title. WoWfag.

FFXI has, what, 20 servers? 400 banned players out of 500,000 is kind of small in comparison. When I was playing, they'd ban that many accounts on their RMT hunts regularly.

Don't cheat then, wannabe doom prophet.

This same thing killed Guild Wars. Duping items for several months before Anet figured out. The economy was scarred, it's practically dead.

The majority of players banned this time were almost all Relic-Mythic holding players. Endgame players, etc. Not your typical dunesfags and "I quit before I got my subjob" group.

>>26179630
Cool assumptions bro
Stop being so butthurt

and no JPs were harmed in the making of this bannings.

>>26179725

>Don't cheat then, wannabe doom prophet.

Wasen't cheating if the programmers left the glitch open for more than a year. Idiot.

EVE online had a four year bug that a bunch of corporations exploited. When they finally fixed it late last year they banned every person from the corporations involved, destroyed their stations and starships, and removed the isk they had made from the game.

It was something like 5 trillion isk that they removed from the economy, and people thought that would fuck shit up, but it didn't, and EVE is better than ever.

Oh no, they banned people who exploited the system and duped items~

>>26179575
>So? Blizzard does that all the time.

Blizzard also has 11.5million people, so banning a thousand or so won't even put a dent in their numbers. FFXI doesn't have nowhere near the number of people, so this can be a decent lost for them

>>26179819

WAVEDASHAN IS A FEATURE, AMIRITE?

Five bucks says that once they close the servers entirely they'll make a FFXI Offline Edition.

So they just banned their entire user base. Thats not a very smart thing to do.

FFXI Officially only has 210,000 estimated US/EU players. This isin't including JP players.

If programmers knew, and let this glitch take place for over a year. Why wait, investigate who is taking advantage of it and ban them for it? Thats no better than honeypotting a bunch of torrentfags for pirating ebooks.

Its a low-blow. And alot of the players only banned were NA/EU since 99% of the JP community which also did this are still in-tact. FFXI has always been very racial-profiling towards their customer-base.

>>26179894

Have you never played FF12?

>>26179805
It goes like this

Are they cheating? yes/no
If yes proceed to next issue
Are they US/JP?
If JP move along and let them do what ever
If US BAN THEIR FUCKING ASSES and watch them QQMOAR for playing a japanese based shitty game in the first place that all the JP players hate, a game that will never get an overhaul(even fucking WoW got one already, I'm still shocked at this) cause they allow that failed piece of hardware called the PS2 keep on it, they refuse to cut the cancer out, so soon it will be all over and all your hours of wasted time will be done, and guess what? You'll be fucking playing WoW to get your MMO fix you fucking loosers.

They do this every few months. And the fuckers always deserve it.

>>26179894
They already made FFXI:Offline

>FFXI is officially dead.
>Just 500 players banned
lolwut?

>>26179662
500,000... more like 5,000. Most server sizes apparently reach about 1k a day at most.

>>26179830
The hardcore Eve players were ZZZzzzzzZZZzzzzzz to notice.

And supposedly the majority of people they banned were all high-level players who had little to no warning about what they were doing was wrong. There was also a no set criteria for what constituted a perm or temp ban.

Also if a glitch it let in for over a year with no action, you don't just randomly decide TIME TO PERMBAN PEOPLE LOLKAY.

Removing items and temp bans? More than reasonable. Even levying a gold reduction? That's even fair.

But Non-WoW mmo's do things like this and don't realize why they then fail a few months later... and I just want to facepalm so hard.

>>26179830

>EVE is better then ever

>>26179901
>>26179662
Take your facts and go die in a fire. This is /v/. We have no need for facts.

>>Some idiot
>550 people just got a new lease on life.

Think again. They'll probably just go to WoW or something equally mind numbing.

It was an exploit that the people who did it knew was against the rules. Duping items is a big no-no and they did it at their own risk, so now they pay for it and are butthurt over the fact they got caught cheating. 500 people isn't enough to close down FFXI. I'm glad to see they enforce their rules.

>>26179849 Blizzard also has 11.5million people, so banning a thousand or so won't even put a dent in their numbers.
Blizzard was banning D2 accounts in tens of thousands

>>26180007
>a game that will never get an overhaul(even fucking WoW got one already, I'm still shocked at this)

WoW wasn't held back by an outdated console, FFXI is. Square-Enix stated several years ago that they can't overhaul the game due to the PS2 userbase which is still a sizable amount in Japan.

They ban thousands a month. I don't think 400 is a big deal. It hardly dies just because some douches abused an exploit over and over and got butthurt over it.

>>26180114
Also keep in mind though with D2 there's a one-time fee, so they have nothing to lose by banning players.

>>26180028
My server has 4000 on at peak times.

>>26180028

In the case of FF11, if you're DUPING something, you obviously know it's a fucking exploit. Anyone doing it shouldn't have been surprised to see a ban come their way.

In the case of EVE I can completely understand if the people involved had no idea what they were doing was wrong. All the bug was was that high level minerals were easy to mine of a certain few areas, and these corps took advantage of it.

>>26180028
You're fucking duping.

You truly are a fucking slacked jawed dumbass nigger if you think doing shit like that isn't bannable.

No really. You're a fucking stupid nigger. End your life. I demand it.

>>26179819
are you retarded? Oh wait you still play FFXI....

>They ban thousands a month. I don't think 400 is a big deal. It hardly dies just because some douches abused an exploit over and over and got butthurt over it.

Read motherfucker. These aren't RMT or shitty noobs getting banned. We're talking like 90% of the fucking FFXI endgame playerbase (Relic/Mythic holders, Sea, JOL, AV, Odin, etc.) Not fucking noobs.

>>26180123
Exactly, which is why I call it CANCER, and that it will DIE because of it. Their fucking fault and I'm laughing all the way, oh trust me I have a bottle of champagne I'm going to crack open when those server shut down, and I'll fucking be happy as tits

So basically players exploited a flaw in the game for a year and thought there would be no repercussions if SE never found out about it? welp.

It's funny because they probably cried. At least one cried, definitely.

I love how fucking butthurt they are on BG. It's delicious.

It's not my fault I cheated!
lul gaem sucks ne way i only played for 5 years.

>>26180252

500 new accounts were probably already made, replacing the money loss from those people. Who gives a fuck who they were. Just because they've played for a long time doesn't excuse them from bullshit like duping items.

>>26180330
what's BG?

>>26179750
Izzy killed Guild Wars. Nobody cares about PvE.

Fuck cheaters.

You dupe items you get banned.

Welcome to reality, it has consequences.

Go back to Diablo 2 cheating nig bags.

>>26180256

Really?

How can I have a life devoid of anything that I, too, may harbor such hate for a VIDEO GAME, Anonimasu-sama?

>>26180188
>>26180226

Well, supposedly FROM WHAT IVE HEARD this has something to do with recycled materials or something spawning from a trade skill. If I was mining something and found out that clicking faster gave me more materials, I would think that to be a genuine gameplay feature, ESPECIALLY if I was in a high level guild who told me "do it brah, that's how it works"

Nothing from the article said anything about cutting connections to the game, or a long sequence of trade windows.

A newer player wouldn't know any better to follow by some archaic bizaare rule that even though it's a naturally occuring part of the game shouldn't be practiced.

Go end your life for blaming other players for ruining a fake universe of a shitty game which has less players than the original everquest still does just because fucking japanese developers couldn't spend five seconds to change some code. Lots of the players banned supposedly didn't even know this WAS duping, it was just the tradeskill location giving out extra materials.

>>26180252
>These aren't RMT or shitty noobs getting banned. We're talking like 90% of the fucking FFXI endgame playerbase

Exactly. This isn't just banning some random people that haven't even hit 75, these were some of the top players currently left in this shitty excuse of a MMO. You do not just ban these kind of people

so what happens if a mmo loses it's endgame playerbase?

>>26180252
No. One. Gives. A. Fuck.

>>26180256
Such a sad person.

>>26180131
And most of those accounts eventually came back anyway. SE's moderation system was always iffy.

>>26180399
Adding unnecessary grind for PvE skills for EACH CHARACTER ON THE ACCOUNT killed Guild Wars, at least for me it did.

>>26180448
protip: 75% of their userbase is endgame to begin with. 550 people is nothing.

>>26180399

PvE is for getting cool equipment for PvP. That's about it.

>>26180444
>You do not just ban these kind of people

lol. DO YOU KNOW WHAT LEVEL I AM? DO YOU KNOW HOW GOOD MY GEAR IS? YOU DO NOT FUCKING BAN ME.

Is your monthly fee generating more revenue for Sony than a "scrub casual's" monthly fee?

>>26179976
>Thats no better than honeypotting a bunch of torrentfags for pirating ebooks.

Pirating has no monthly fee.

WTF IS A TERMS OF SERVICE?

>>26180421
Crafting in FFXI is all about math.
If you find you're making double the craft for the same amount of materials you use to make the normal number you're going to fucking notice. And I'd only agree with you if you were defending a larger group of people. Upwards in the tens of thousands. But it's less than a thousand. Which means there's a really great chance a majority of these players knew exactly what they were doing.

And to follow up on the schoolyard comebacks: no u.

>During an emergency maintenance on November 26, 2008, Square Enix fixed this "issue" and discovered that players had already taken advantage of it before, in Square Enix's words, "it was addressed."

3 months later "Hey guys, we found something. Get the ban hammer ready."

A great deal of the problems with the game could have been avoided if only they would have separated the US and JP userbases. There was just too much racism and hatred and racism between us when I still played (until the second expansion).

I also wished they'd fixed things a little bit quicker, they would have kept a lot of people that left for WoW if they would have listened to the fanbase.

>>26179830

Are you talking about the BPO distribution system?

>Pirating has no monthly fee.
Paying for internet does.

>550 people
>90% of FFXI endgame

ok pal.

>>26180481

In guild wars, I quite simply did not use PvE skills, and I told anyone who told me to go Ursan to go choke on a dick.

>>26180600
Japs are pig disgusting.

Pic related, typical Japanese men on any given day.

Around 900 people banned, only about 500 perma-banned. Take into account that generally in FFXI your first offense is a temp ban, and if you fuck it up again you get perma-banned. So I'm going out on a limb here to say that all the people that got perma banned were the end-game elitist type that got temp banned for botting in the past.

Skimming off all the top tier faggots in the end game world? gj SE.

>>26180637
You know it's true. Don't deny it.

>>26180481
They're finally fucking working on account-wide titles.

Also, I take back what I said about Izzy, that was reflex. Turns out he apparently had about fifteen layers of bureaucratic idiots to work through to get anything done. Remember that joke about how ritspike stayed unnerfed for so long because ANet wanted to sell more copies of Factions? Not a joke.

maybe when it dies Square will give the private server guys the code so we can run it off out own backs

>>26180659
Nice lie there guy.

No one was playing with anyone else by the time Eye of the north came out.

>>26180604
Starbase exploit where people were basically getting free materials.

>>26180028
They were only made aware of it not long before they actually banned them. It wasn't like they knew for four years and just let it slide.

>>26180405
Easy, walk outside and piss on a dog, then kick a cat, and finally punch a baby. You'll rage like no one else. Oh and lurk moar on here of course.

But on a serious not, I can't fucking stand how stupid Japanese people are when it comes to changing anything, even if it's broken, they are oblivious and think their way is the better way, well guess what? I don't play MMO's, I hate them as they are a waste of fucking time, money and life, and from where I'm sitting all of the OTHER MMO's aren't afraid of change, popular ones that is. Fuck even Obama would understand their logic is FLAWED...

Since I'm not a WoW player, answer me this... Are there WoW servers in Japan? I'm assuming there is, as I'm guessing Blizzard has servers all over the world to handle the mass of tards playing. Anyways, FFXI for instance has servers only in japan, that alone tells me how fucking stupid they are. Nothing like super high ping times from half way across the world, weeee!!! BRILLIANT!

>>26180782
>Are there WoW servers in Japan?

No. Blizzard knew that the Japanese would be too xenophobic to play a western MMO.

>>26180916
Ahh, well good for Blizzard

>>26180444

>Exactly. This isn't just banning some random people that haven't even hit 75, these were some of the top players currently left in this shitty excuse of a MMO. You do not just ban these kind of people

You do when the "crem of the crem" are shitbags who knowingly and willingly cheat to get ahead. Bitches get what they deserve and I'm lol'ing all the way at those faggots who are so full of themselves they think the game will die without them. Go fuck yourself in WoW faggot.

I wish that gorilla-nosed nigger Rykoshet still played to see his ass bawwwww all fucking day over getting banned.

FFXI will be just as good if not better now that these assholes, and they were every bit assholes, are gone.

I played this game for 1 week and didnt see any rasicm , you are all liars. This game is good and no one is bad. Let them do what they need to so that the bad ones dont come back.

>>26179469
FFXI even HAS hundreds of players to ban? It's doing better then I thought...

I never played this game for 2 reasons: I hate forced grouping and I am not a fan of FF games.

I don't see anything too different or spectacular from what I've seen in several other MMOs. Bugs happen and people will exploit them. Cheating is cheating regardless of how long the exploit is in place, and when the devs find a bug they tend to squash it and the people exploiting it. And that is exactly what they should do.

I got a 3 day ban from DAoC when Darkness Falls came out because there was a bug that let people buy from the seal vendors with regular gold. I bought a ton of stuff and twinked all my characters. I didn't know it was an exploit, but that didn't stop them from suspending my account. I appealed it and went on with my life. I didn't whine about it or male excuses.

>>26180916
Well, Blizzard finally made one good decision. My respect has slightly gone up for the fuckers.

>>26181001
LOL!

1 WEEK? YOU DIDN'T PLAY LONG ENOUGH TO SEE IT! When you play it long enough to know most everyone on the server, you see it all over the fucking place. Granted there are nice japanese people that can speak broken enrish, but they generally are like the outcast of the gooks and have shitty gear, the only reason you're talking to them is for info on bleach and naruto or some other anime in the first place and to kill time while pullin, campin, farmin.