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I was checking out the leader-board over at GW2 effeciency and suddenly... someone went a little overboard'

Edit: Just to clarify, $200,000 is how much that much gold costs through gold selling websites, to get that amount legit it would cost more than $530,000

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over 8 years ago - /u/Tivac - Direct link

Turns out the API doesn't block banned players, so someone who was banned for duping (but still had an account) was able to generate an API key and get onto the site.

We'll be blocking banned accounts from the APIs in the future, sorry!