Crackers Slam EQ2 Economy 31
Gamespot.com is reporting that third parties are manipulating the currency in EQ2, leading to massive inflation on the Station Exchange. From the article: "The players then began trying to sell the ill-gotten plat on Station Exchange, the official auction exchange for EQ2 weapons, armor, currency, and other virtual goods. 'The amount of money in the game increased by a fifth in about 24 hours,' Kramer said. 'We have a lot of alarms for this kind of thing, and they all went off on Saturday.'" Thanks to some exhaustive data tracking, most of the duped currency was removed from the economy by Sunday.
How did Sony (Score:5, Interesting)
some things they left out (Score:4, Interesting)
The interesting thing is that people noticed issues in the broker system months ago and mentioned it in the eq2 forums but nothing was done.