Will Innocent People Lose Money Because Of The Dupe?

_Johku · Dec 27, 2020

What will happen to people who had their mythic(s) in the tm(with a reasonable price) before the dupers started buying everything?
Will they just lose all their money(possibly tens of stacks) and not get their mythics back? Or will they be allowed to keep their duped money? Is it possible to get back the mythics that the dupers bought?

ramenstew · Dec 27, 2020

_Johku said: ↑

What will happen to people who had their mythic(s) in the tm(with a reasonable price) before the dupers started buying everything?
Will they just lose all their money(possibly tens of stacks) and not get their mythics back? Or will they be allowed to keep their duped money? Is it possible to get back the mythics that the dupers bought?
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Salted's official response:

Hello peeps!

We're quite aware of this issue and have been discussing it internally. It is a complicated issue but at the moment, there is no plan for a rollback, here are a few reasons why:

- Rollbacking 5 days back would hurt the community way harder than a dupe would, especially after a DXP weekend. Every XP and items found, quests completed, item traded etc. would get removed, which combined is much more significant than the market. This would also revert store purchases and even though we would give items back, it would take us significant efforts (many days).
- The dupe isn't actually as significant as the community thinks. A bit like the stock market IRL, if people think something is worthless when it isn't, it'll still become worthless. The numbers we've seen around are easily 10x exaggerated if not more. Wynncraft has had nasty dupes of similar size as this one in the past, and we've always recovered.
- We have logs and are looking through them manually to find and ban the big dupers first, which by themselves constitutes the majority of the duped LE. If the duped stuff doesn't enter the economy, it's as good as if it never existed. We still have detailed logs of all duped items and will ban every dupers we find. We strongly advise you throw out your duped stuff ASAP before we find it.

We're also working on some long-term fixes for this issue, but at the same time we're trying to get 1.20 ready so this may take a little longer than usual. This whole shenanigan happened right during the Christmas break so it is quite bad timing, leading to the response being slower than we would have liked, we apologize for that.
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Sg_Voltage · Dec 27, 2020

ramenstew said: ↑

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Would have been nice if this was posted to the news section but I guess it's better then nothing :/

It left a really bad taste in my mouth that he locked the thread after saying that, might just be me though...

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Will Innocent People Lose Money Because Of The Dupe?

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