Hey all,
We have been investigating an instance in which it was possible to cash out items receiving more oddments than the cost of a Treasure Hunter Key whilst on discount, allowing players to generate a surplus of oddments.
This discount became available in-game around 11:30 game time. We were notified around 18:00 of the exploit and at 19:10 we removed the discount with a hotfix.
In total we’ve identified around 4000 players who attempted the exploit. There was no noticeable effect on either the economy or XP gained on the day as a result of the exploit due to the low volume of users who abused the exploit.
Following our investigations we have categorised the players into three separate groups:
- Players who may have tested the exploit will not have action taken against their account
- 835 accounts have clearly exploited the discount and will be banned for 72 hours
- 65 accounts have severely exploited the discount and w...
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