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Epic lulz in the FFXI communtity lately.; For anyone besides me who gives a shit.
Topic Started: Sunday 25-01-2009, 20:56 (439 Views)
Donnie
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First, the source of all the mayhem: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news15265.shtml

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In November 2008, we discovered an issue that allowed players to create multiple items for certain treasures and rewards in areas such as Salvage and Assault by exploiting the game system.

The issue was fixed during emergency maintenance on November 26, 2008. However, we discovered that some players had already exploited the issue and used it to gain additional items before it was addressed. We then investigated more than a year's worth of logs throughout all areas.

As a result of the investigation, approximately 400 players were temporarily suspended based on the evidence gathered. Approximately 550 players who committed more serious misconduct had their accounts banned.

We are working hard to ensure that these kinds of issues do not occur again in FINAL FANTASY XI. However, if you discover any problems with the game system, please submit a GM call or fill out the feedback e-mail form to report the problems to us, instead of exploiting or spreading the issue.

We thank you for your cooperation in this matter.


Most of the permabanned ones were long time players who reveled in their 1337 a$$holeness and their uber gearz and lorded over all the so called noobs, and were even arrogant enough to think they got away with cheating once SE patched the bug and didn't punish anyone immediately. Oh, how wrong they were. :boogie:

some examples of :LOL!: that came from this:

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Originally Posted by Encyclopedia Dramatica
On January 22 2009, the entire FFXI community shat bricks as Square-Enix effectively gathered the top basement dwellers from every server and gassed them. There was a glitch in certain event areas where one could triple their treasure and it was TOTALLYtop-sekritnocanknowbutuandme. Even Square-Enix themselves knew of its existance but did nothing, allowing hordes of FFXIfags to exploit the living shit out of it. Finally, in a moment of epic win, Square-Enix decided to go through the logs of the past year and bring down divine justice upon the perpetrators and the group leaders were hung from the gallows for all to see. Naturally all the forums exploded in UNTOLD amounts of butthurt, lulz, "zomg but itnot be MAI fualt i decide to cheated ;;;;;," deleted blogs and (with any luck) some use of shotgun mouthwash. The shitstorm continues to this day and there seems to be no end in sight.


This event has made the news on a few websites, such as G4's Feed and Kotaku.

G4 article: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/692651/Players-Banned-From-Final-Fantasy-XI.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed

Kotaku article: http://kotaku.com/5137673/hundreds-of-players-banned-in-final-fantasy-xi

Sankaku Complex article (MAY BE CONSIDERED NSFW): http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/01/25/550-ffxi-dupers-banned-including-top-50000-account/

And the forums...oh my god, the forums. Such epic amounts of QQ oozing from them...it is art.

Original bannage topic (LM-17 or LM-11 to us FFXI players) on the BG forums (it's a huge topic, highly doubt any would try to read it all): http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/ffxi-advanced-player-discussion/68831-lm-17-a.html

Quotes from the 1337 a$$holes who thought they were invincible before they got banhammered: http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/ffxi-advanced-player-discussion/68860-delicious-quotes-original-dupe-fix-thread.html

And to end, a picture I found highly amusing:

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Now for me to fly back to the void once again. :sonic: :sonic: :sonic: :supersonic: :supersonic: :supersonic:
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ages
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Ahh, karma in an MMO. It almost never happens.
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Omgarm
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I read that before, I almost had respect for them until I found out about an 18 hour boss battle <_<
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Bagshot
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Party time
Suckers
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Adam
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^What he said.
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Donnie
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Omgarm
Sunday 25-01-2009, 21:25
I read that before, I almost had respect for them until I found out about an 18 hour boss battle <_<
Yeah, that one went down real good with the press. >_> SE got pwnt big time because of it lol.

The monster that was the source of the 18-hour boss fight got nerfed to hell and back because of it (it was the 2nd strongest monster in the game) along with the game's top monster. Both of them now have a 2-hour time limit before they automatically despawn.
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Awesome,
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Cole
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Cole
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also, all of a sudden donnie not following up on finishing his games and his general absence makes complete sense now.
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Bagshot
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Party time
http://www.orble.com/poopsocking-and-the-dangers-of-online-gaming/
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Donnie
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Zersch
Monday 26-01-2009, 01:09
also, all of a sudden donnie not following up on finishing his games and his general absence makes complete sense now.
Just what are you implying? :saturn:
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Cole
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that you are an avid ffxi player
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Zersch
Monday 26-01-2009, 04:37
that you are an avid ffxi player
Fine fine, you got me. :owned:

Now get outta here before I decide to stomp your yard...and I'll stomp it good.
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Cole
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:(
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Comedian
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I should be drinking a toast to absent friends
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Omgarm
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Did you give up Flyff completely?
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Alch
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I wanna get back to my MMO...fucking hippies.
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^LOL GUILD WARS
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Guild Wars is an Online RPG, not a MMORPG >_>

Like PSO <_<
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