Recently, a major bug in wartune was exploited where players could get some in-game items unlimited. This obviously affects gameplay since many of the items are hard to get. Many items also can be purchased using in-game currency which costs money. This bug has been fixed but left most offenders banned (suspended would be a better term) for five days. I understand why the game makers of wartune decided to ban players in this instance but there are many players that violate the TOU and never get banned. So it leads to me thinking, why should they bother banning players utilizing this bug and getting almost unlimited items?
Better yet, why should wartune have a Terms of Use that they will only selectively enforce parts of it? I am a person who believes that they should enforce all aspects of a Terms of Use or don't enforce it at all and get rid of it. It's quite obvious that they don't ban people who don't keep their password's confidential but they ban people for getting almost unlimited items? They can easily remove and change this at anytime anything in the TOU that they don't want to enforce.... but they haven't removed anything pertaining to keeping your password confidential. I am aware that in the Question and Answer section, they do state that they are not going to waste their time punishing players who share their passwords but that IS NOT STATED IN THEIR TERMS OF USE. How selfish....
Selfish to the point that I believe that the players who utilized the gem bug SHOULD NOT BE BANNED NOR HAVE THEIR ITEMS REMOVED! Yes, it is against their Terms of Use not to exploit their "errors," but at the same time people report bugs and they don't do hardly anything about or drag their feet on fixing it. An example of a current bug: If you complete spire normal keeping your attempt unchecked, and in the same room, start spire nightmare with the attempt checked, and leave before "starting it," you will get the nightmare rewards as like you completed all the stages but you haven't even completed it. This bug has existed two months (since they released either version 5.0 or 5.1) and they haven't fixed it. If they aren't going to fix it, WHY REPORT IT!?
I don't care what anything says outside the Terms of Use, when you registered for the game, you were FORCED to check off that you Read and Understood their Terms of Use.... you were NOT required to read and understood all of their FAQ's section or check off that you "Read and Understood" their FAQ section. Therefore I believe, anything that it is their FAQ is irrelevant. I honestly have no idea what a lawyer would say (and I would be interested in hearing what they had to say about your rights in this case).
As for the people who was banned or any items removed... I strongly recommend to contact a lawyer and see if you are able to file a lawsuit against the game. Claim that since they don't actively seek to ban players who actively share their passwords to another that you were damaged when they decided to enforce another area of their TOU. Put a cash value on how many items you loss. That is easy. If one of the items at lv 1 costs $1.45 to buy, and you needed three of them to upgrade it to lv 2, 3 of lv 2 to upgrade to lv 3.... and so forth. If you have upgraded one resistance crystal to level 12, it would be worth a whopping $256,863.15!!! Have 9999 of that item and your account would be worth $2,568,374,636.85 ... 2.57 billion dollars.... just shows how they overcharge some of their items in their shops.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Wartune's latest bug exploit that may destroy the game
Two massive bugs occurred recently on the free to play game wartune in which I like to bring up.
Free mounts
A post was made one random day claiming that there were people making many of the same mount card and provided screenshots of players making the mount. The next day, R2 did an emergency maintenance fixing it. (Shockingly, R2 thought players were entitled to know why they were doing a maintenance.) Having the mount already activated, any extra mount cards you received can be converted into beast souls which you can use to buy other mounts. As to date, no announcement was made if they removed mount cards, beast souls, and/or other mounts to any accounts that has utilized this bug. Wartune has my guess over 200 mounts. Wartune has been rolling out a new mount every week and you probably have to spend over $100 each week to get the new mount unless you get lucky.
Making almost unlimited duplicate items:
Apparently, wartune decided to do so called "emergency maintenance" early Monday morning on December 14th. (Apparently r2 thought that their players weren't entitled to the reason for this maintenance. They usually do a weekly maintenance early Thursday morning.) So I checked another source and I found the following:
"Recently, some players have been reported to use irregular methods to get Gems. Thankfully, related bugs were fixed during the emergency maintenance on 12/14. Proficient City reserves the right to take measures against any illegal operations."
It took R2 25 hours after maintenance before finally thinking that their players were entitled to information about the bug/gem issue. R2/proficient city claimed that all affected players were removed although there were many players claiming that players who utilized this bug never had all of their extra items removed. Then, the weekly maintenance for 12/17 occurred in which they finally removed the duplicate items to players who utilized the bug & gave them a five day ban.
You would think problem solved? Nope. Apparently there were players complaining in the forms that they were banned but didn't utilized the bug. R2 admitted about 23 hours after 12/17 maintenance that there were players who were banned incorrectly and players who had incorrectly their gems removed. Based on some of the posts, some heavy cashers were banned... Who know what they determined who got banned and who wasn't.
Some info on how this bug worked: Wartune developers have added new inventory space dedicated for items like gems, eudemon crystals, and resistance crystals. (All of the items stored was used to load items onto your equipment or your battle protection) Here is a video on how a player was able to utilize this bug.
Free mounts
A post was made one random day claiming that there were people making many of the same mount card and provided screenshots of players making the mount. The next day, R2 did an emergency maintenance fixing it. (Shockingly, R2 thought players were entitled to know why they were doing a maintenance.) Having the mount already activated, any extra mount cards you received can be converted into beast souls which you can use to buy other mounts. As to date, no announcement was made if they removed mount cards, beast souls, and/or other mounts to any accounts that has utilized this bug. Wartune has my guess over 200 mounts. Wartune has been rolling out a new mount every week and you probably have to spend over $100 each week to get the new mount unless you get lucky.
Making almost unlimited duplicate items:
Apparently, wartune decided to do so called "emergency maintenance" early Monday morning on December 14th. (Apparently r2 thought that their players weren't entitled to the reason for this maintenance. They usually do a weekly maintenance early Thursday morning.) So I checked another source and I found the following:
"Recently, some players have been reported to use irregular methods to get Gems. Thankfully, related bugs were fixed during the emergency maintenance on 12/14. Proficient City reserves the right to take measures against any illegal operations."
It took R2 25 hours after maintenance before finally thinking that their players were entitled to information about the bug/gem issue. R2/proficient city claimed that all affected players were removed although there were many players claiming that players who utilized this bug never had all of their extra items removed. Then, the weekly maintenance for 12/17 occurred in which they finally removed the duplicate items to players who utilized the bug & gave them a five day ban.
You would think problem solved? Nope. Apparently there were players complaining in the forms that they were banned but didn't utilized the bug. R2 admitted about 23 hours after 12/17 maintenance that there were players who were banned incorrectly and players who had incorrectly their gems removed. Based on some of the posts, some heavy cashers were banned... Who know what they determined who got banned and who wasn't.
Some info on how this bug worked: Wartune developers have added new inventory space dedicated for items like gems, eudemon crystals, and resistance crystals. (All of the items stored was used to load items onto your equipment or your battle protection) Here is a video on how a player was able to utilize this bug.
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