Neverwinter Nights Online. (Cryptic Studios)

[Falconeer]

Kripparrian got banned (again) and here's his perspective on the situation.

[Ginaz]

Kripparrian got banned (again) and here's his perspective on the situation.

Hasn't this guy been banned from other games a few times?

[koro]

Hmm, not sure a 7 hour rollback is anywhere near enough to undo the negative effects of this. If it really has been going on for weeks (months?) then even if that constitutes "a fraction of a percent of total impact" that still leaves a small number of people with a potentially economy-distorting level of currency, given how far it's likely been spread.

The fact that it took so long to shut it down, and the claims that it'd been reported multiple times previously in closed beta make me glad that I decided not to spend a single penny on this game at this point.

Putting this into the "keep an eye on" category of games now. Not interested in playing something that's this badly done right now.

I imagine there is also a ton of bans on top of that.

The only permabans handed out were to people who duped up hundreds of millions or more in AD within the past few days to a week. The mules and main accounts of the dupers are pretty much untouched. The only people who really  got affected by bans were those too stupid to know any better. If they look much further past the last few days for bans, I will be shocked.

Even the people who went well out of their way to exploit the Wizard and Guardian damage bugs or AFK'd en masse in PvP for tons of free purples only got a 72-hour slap on the wrist.

Cryptic really doesn't like banning people.

[Phred]

Kripparrian got banned (again) and here's his perspective on the situation.

Hasn't this guy been banned from other games a few times?

Ya the guy makes his money by people subscribing to his channel to get the cheats first. He's a modern day Dr. Twister.

[Falconeer]

That's not why people follow him. He's a very good gamer and a naturally charming guy. He happens to be an exploiter at heart too like many "hardcore gamers", and occasionally he gets banned from a game because of that, but that's not the point of his channel or how he makes money.

[Hoax]

He got suspended 3 days for barely using an exploit everyone was using. He's not exactly a hardcore cheater otherwise he would have made some nice cash off this game like the true exploiter/cheater community is/has. He's just a catass who looks for ways to game the system benign shit like ogre farms, boss kill exploits at least thats my read on it. Nobody who streams for a living is going to be a hardcore exploiter. Just someone focused on beating content.

Calling it a ban is exaggeration. Personally I think his stream is average as fuck and I don't get why he has such a big following but at least he's better than the other big streamers from Blizz games (TotalBiscuit and Kungen are both complete twats for example).

[Lantyssa]

You can actually turn something on in options that lets you pick what instance you join every time you zone, then if you want you can join crowded or empty ones. The game isn't a MMO though if by MMO you mean virtual world, there is no world and no community to this game.

What I want to know is how to turn that off.  Mine's been set since launch and it's frigging annoying.

[Goumindong]

Kripp doesn't really seem trustworthy(especially because of his other bans for obviously exploiting on screen and then being all "whaaaa, me guilty? Noooo). Why were you exploiting something that wasn't even profitable? Are you sure you didn't do anything else

[Fabricated]

Calling it a ban is exaggeration. Personally I think his stream is average as fuck and I don't get why he has such a big following but at least he's better than the other big streamers from Blizz games (TotalBiscuit and Kungen are both complete twats for example).

Yay, someone finally agrees with me!

[Dren]

Fun game and well done for F2P.  I'm not seeing enough to actually pay for something yet, but I'm only like 3 hours into it.  I might buy a "hat" later to give some support.

[Reg]

Are any of the starter kits worth buying? They all come with what seems like a ton of astral diamonds but given all the exploits I'm guessing those are going down in value pretty fast.  Also, what shard is everyone playing on? Mindflayer?

[Stormwaltz]

I wouldn't buy the $200 one unless you're 14 and really want to be a bondage dark elf. That's pretty much the focus. You can play a drow, ride a spider, and get a panther companion. I guess you can dress like a medieval prostitute too.

I got the $60 one. It gets you a noticeably fast horse and a wolf companion that levels to 30 (most only go to 15 - I'm 53, he's currently 28). Both of them look good. The ring and the Greycloak Legacy are nice at low levels, but not necessary. I don't think I even opened the Adventurer's Pack. The Robe of Useless items turned out to be a terrible gimmick - not wearable, but an inventory item that always seems to spawn a "Bag of Holes" on the ground next to you. The day after open beta began, people were joking in chat, "Has anyone NOT thrown theirs out yet?"

The only thing I've spent an Astral Diamond on was a single AH post. I think I have 650k now. They seem worthless to me, but maybe I'm doing it wrong.

[Numtini]

I bought a bunch of zen. So far, the only thing I spent them on was a bag.

[Draegan]

I got the $60 one. I like feeling over powered for the first 15 or so levels.

[Numtini]

I have a feeling Im going to blow a lot of AD on a cat.

[Tannhauser]

I spent $5 so far.  Don't regret that but I do regret opening those three bags and getting the same, lowest item possible, three times.

The cat, I hear, is fabulous.

[Stormwaltz]

Just ran into a level 50+ character named "Sickcunt."

His guild name was a website URL. 

[Ginaz]

Just ran into a level 50+ character named "Sickcunt."

His guild name was a website URL. 

There doesn't seem to be an in game way to report people like that.  I saw a character with the last name of "WizardFuck" yesterday.

[Stormwaltz]

There doesn't seem to be an in game way to report people like that.  I saw a character with the last name of "WizardFuck" yesterday.

Under "page a GM" (or something like that) there's an option to report offensive character names. Which I used.

But you'd think "cunt" would have been in a banned string file to begin with.

[Ingmar]

You'd think a lot of things about this game.

[waffel]

I don't get it, fuck and cunt aren't banned words but when you try to use Mandingo as your black half-orc's name you get a profanity message.

[Lantyssa]

The words 'fuck' and 'cunt' and the number 100 bazillion brought to you by the makers of the free Astral Diamond exploit.

At least the Diablo 3 version of the bug was limited to people with a billion gold rather than anyone with access to a web browser.

[Xanthippe]

Are any of the starter kits worth buying? They all come with what seems like a ton of astral diamonds but given all the exploits I'm guessing those are going down in value pretty fast.  Also, what shard is everyone playing on? Mindflayer?

Yes, Mindflayer. Join the channel "Bat Country" (two words separated by a space).

I spent 10 bucks on a bag, but can't speak as to the starter kits.

[Stormwaltz]

As obnoxious as it is to hear "Speeend your Astral Diamonds here!" every 15 seconds, still worse is the utterly transparent walla, "Luh luh luh, luh luh luh luh."

[Goumindong]

You can turn vendor talking off. Its in the options somewhere

[ghost]

You can turn vendor talking off. Its in the options somewhere

Is this your first post in a game related sub-forum?   

[Goumindong]

You can turn vendor talking off. Its in the options somewhere

Is this your first post in a game related sub-forum?   

  My first post in a game related sub-forum was my first post.... which was 4 months before you registered

[Reg]

You're one of the guys that found his way here via EVE, right?

[Goumindong]

Yes, though i generally play League of Legends now, and the forum here isnt particularly big for it.

[koro]

It took me a while to recognize Goum without his Hitchcock avatar when I first started coming here.

[Xanthippe]

Is this a new trend? People ditching their avatars?

How will I know who is who?

[Hoax]

Yes, though i generally play League of Legends now, and the forum here isnt particularly big for it.

You know for a guy as smart as you there is really no excuse for playing League in a world where Dota exists and has match making (dota all stars with no MM was less fun than LoL for sure). I've still not played more games of Dota2 than LoL games but there is no question in my mind which game is a better game with more interesting systems and gameplay.

On Topic:
You people giving these guys money almost make me more sad than the people who dropped cash buying D3 items on the RMAH. You level so fast, its so easy and pain-free and the company behind it is such a bunch of chucklefucks and your money is going straight into the pocket of exploiters... meh I'll totally play this though if/when I have a static going for it or eventually when they release some more class and race options I like, Control Wizard is awesome but I hate the look of the orb floating there and Spellstorm is nowhere near as cool as Blood Mage or Spiral Tower.

[Goumindong]

If you want to have a chat about Dota/LoL i am not sure we have a thread for it. But DOTA2 is full of all the really shitty game design choices that were in DOTA:Allstars and isn't a particularly good game because of it. Woo it has matchmaking so now i can not shitty design choices with people more my skill level. Not really interested.

[Pezzle]

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[UnSub]

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