ASAH missing

[beta1]

I can't find the Astral Shard Auction House today for some reason. It is missing from both the menu and the AH NPCs.

Edit, just logged in again and I saw the message.

[Annex]

It was closed earlier today as per this announcement: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ge#post6007993

[Cantor]

So, I assume there is an exploit involved to take it down like this.

[LT218]

So, I assume there is an exploit involved to take it down like this.

Of course there is.

When SSG learns of players losing years worth of gear, significant amounts of $$ worth of TP-purchased stuff, time invested, etc., they offer no help. They even leave the bugged TR system live. Worse yet, from the lack of responses from SSG employees about the TR issue here on the forums, zero ***** are given.

When SSG learns of an exploit that allows players to dupe rare gear, shards, plat, etc., they're like "OMFG stop the presses and shut that *** down like yesterday!!!" It'd be hilarious how fast SSG would disable the TR system if players were getting gear, shards, etc. duped when they TR'd.

[chippy]

Of course there is. That's how it works.

SSG finds an exploit that allows players to dupe rare gear, shards, plat, etc. and OMFG stop the presses and shut that *** down like yesterday!!!

Multiple players lose years worth of gear and significant amounts of $$ worth of TP-purchased tomes, etc. and get no help, the TR system is still live, and from the lack of responses to it from SSG employees here on the forums, zero ***** are given.

+1 I know from experience.

[brian14]

Of course there is.

When SSG learns of players losing years worth of gear, significant amounts of $$ worth of TP-purchased stuff, time invested, etc., they offer no help. They even leave the bugged TR system live. Worse yet, from the lack of responses from SSG employees about the TR issue here on the forums, zero ***** are given.

When SSG learns of an exploit that allows players to dupe rare gear, shards, plat, etc., they're like "OMFG stop the presses and shut that *** down like yesterday!!!" It'd be hilarious how fast SSG would disable the TR system if players were getting gear, shards, etc. duped when they TR'd.

In all fairness, I once got an unearned past life via TR, and reported it. AFAIK, nothing happened. (And yes, the toon in question still has that PL.)

[Miow]

In all fairness, I once got an unearned past life via TR, and reported it. AFAIK, nothing happened. (And yes, the toon in question still has that PL.)

You must of got mine, i did an epic tr and got nothing. Logged it and forgot about it. Nothing was ever done. I no longer care

[SerPounce]

Of course there is.

When SSG learns of players losing years worth of gear, significant amounts of $$ worth of TP-purchased stuff, time invested, etc., they offer no help. They even leave the bugged TR system live. Worse yet, from the lack of responses from SSG employees about the TR issue here on the forums, zero ***** are given.

When SSG learns of an exploit that allows players to dupe rare gear, shards, plat, etc., they're like "OMFG stop the presses and shut that *** down like yesterday!!!" It'd be hilarious how fast SSG would disable the TR system if players were getting gear, shards, etc. duped when they TR'd.

SSG is evil because they fix exploits?

I feel for the people who have lost stuff in TR, it's a big issue, but these exploits are a big problem also. These people destroyed the game economy a few years back. It's still just recovering.

If there's an exploit I'm very much glad they closed it. F* the cheaters.

[Hutoth]

F* the cheaters.

1000 x this

[KomradKillMachine]

SSG is evil because they fix exploits?

I feel for the people who have lost stuff in TR, it's a big issue, but these exploits are a big problem also. These people destroyed the game economy a few years back. It's still just recovering.

If there's an exploit I'm very much glad they closed it. F* the cheaters.

The economy was destroyed by all the BtA gear including BtA crafting mats...
All the relevant sh*t which you can't trade...

[LT218]

SSG is evil because they fix exploits?

I feel for the people who have lost stuff in TR, it's a big issue, but these exploits are a big problem also. These people destroyed the game economy a few years back. It's still just recovering.

If there's an exploit I'm very much glad they closed it. F* the cheaters.

Nice job completely missing the point while apologizing for SSG's terrible treatment of their customers.

To spell it out, no, they're not evil because they fix exploits. They're lame because they do not fix the bugs that are detrimental to players with the same speed as they do exploits that benefit players.

Again, if the bugged-to-hell TR system were duplicating players gear instead of deleting it, it's almost assured that the TR system would have been taken offline just like the ASAH and monster manuals. But since it's only hurting players, not helping them, the TR system is still live and people are still losing years worth of time invested in gearing and powering up toons while customer service telling them "nothing we can do for you, tough doody".

Worse yet, they've known the TR system had some serious bugs in it for years yet they went ahead and created the racial TR and reaper XP systems that highly encouraged people to use the said bugged system even more heavily without having the decency to actually fix the TR bugs. It doesn't make any sense from a customer satisfaction standpoint.

It's similar to how they keep making cosmetics the weekly sale items while the appearance preview system is out of commission due to the broken in-game store...

Regarding the exploiters, all I can say is that nothing they did ever had a negative impact on my gameplay experience. On the other hand, shutting the ASAH down, losing all my tomes during a TR a few years ago, having in-game friends quit when they lose all their gear, etc. etc. most definitely had a negative impact on my gameplay experience.