Tag: dupe

Zenimax Admits False Positives In Mass Bans


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Zenimax Studios has announced that an investigation following a recent mass ban resulted in a number of false positives discovered and reversed. While the forum post in question did not mention just how many accounts were caught by accident, it did report that players identified should have had their bans lifted as of last night.

As part of our continuing effort to combat gold spammers, botters and exploiters, we recently banned a number of accounts. After several players appealed, we were able to investigate the matter further and discovered some legitimate accounts got caught up in the sweep. We unbanned accounts last night, and have email responses going out for those affected from our support group. It is never our intention for legitimate players to be harmed as we work to keep your game free of cheaters, and we sincerely apologize for the mistake.

This week has not been kind to Elder Scrolls Online, with Zenimax shutting down the game’s guild bank temporarily following the discovery of an item duplication exploit, as well as reports that players were being banned after their characters fell through the game world. The world of Tamriel is still being slowly taken over by a massive army of bots and gold farmers, and the company is still working on a fix for players missing banked items, deposited gold, skill points, etc.

(Source: Elder Scrolls Online)

Jagex Returns to Naming And Shaming Gold Duplicators


In the very old days of RuneScape, back when servers were few and the community was equally tiny, players were banned in a rather public fashion. Not as public as, say, the crucifixions in Roma Victor, but each ban was represented with a system message to warn other potential cheaters. Of course, as the game became more popular, Jagex put a stop on this technique and started simply reporting numbers rather than names.

A bug in RuneScape recently allowed players to gather large amounts of wealth, leading to the ban of many accounts on Jagex’s behalf. Not content with simply banning the accounts, Jagex took to the main page to publicly name some of the offenders.

  •  2QO
    • 2475 Total (Maxed Player)
    • 606 Days Played
  • 2College
    • 2054 Total
    • 170 Days Played
  • TzTok-Roy
    • 2327 Total
    • 335 Days Played
  • DeadEternity
    • 2496 Total (2 200m xp stats)
    • 462 Days Played
  • Zeke
    • 1690 Total
    • 121 Days Played
  • 00O0OlI0lIO0
    • 856 Total
    • 54 Days Played
  • Tncd
    • 1128 Total
    • 87 Days Played
  • lbw
    • 976 Total
    • 27 Days Played
  • TvF
    • 2132 Total
    • 279 Days Played
  • x4v
    • 693 Total
    • 157 Days Played
  • WASTEDMONKEY
    • 1978 Total
    • 198 Days Played
  • Rs Completed
    • 2496 Total (Maxed Player)
    • 302 Days Played
  • d4rk_mayhem
    • 1791 Total
    • 296 Days
  • PlayedSerasha
    • 2381 Total
    • 334 Days Played
  • i am WeeHoo
    • 1889 Total
    • 197 Days Played
  • FlashZxFOur1
    • 1386 Total
    • 132 Days Played
  • Shopkeeper
    • 2338 Total
    • 256 Days Played

Jagex COO took the time to remind the community once again to report bugs that are found, and assured players the the economy would not be affected by the bans.

For those of you concerned about the rare objects being removed from the game after the bans and rollbacks – don’t be. We have several clever and fair ways of making sure that the numbers of these rares (like party hats) remain the same.

(Source: RuneScape News)