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You use this word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. These people did not create gold. They created a product to be sold. Money was transferred from people who had it and wanted the ecto to people who had the ecto and wanted the money. There was no inflation, there was no damage. If this recipe posed such a grave threat to the in-game economy, why was it allowed to remain in the game for so long? It stayed in the game through multiple hotfixes to “remove exploits.” Surely you can see how a reasonable person might assume that indicated he wasn’t in the wrong.
This idea that <200 people were banned is absurd. How many people play this game? What’s the likelihood that such a high percentage came from one guild?
Those of you who think this is as simple as banning “cheaters” and your game will be better for it are sorely mistaken. This was the kind of thing that passes through guild chats and between friends really fast. People want to help their guild mates, and if they find a way to make some money, they’re going to share that information. The groups of people hit hard by this are going to be guilds with close communication and lots of numbers. You know, the kind that turn the wheels on the WvWvW maps. The kinds that figure out the way to clear new content and then make video guides on it.
Some of you today didn’t jump on this bandwagon, so you’re looking down your noses on those who did, but do you really feel comfortable with the staff deciding retroactively that something wasn’t acceptable and then handing out bans? The shoe will eventually be on the other foot. The damage to the player base is far greater than the damage to the economy ever was. And it’s not reversible.