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Warmaster Patton · Feb 19, 2007, 06:57 PM // 18:57

Time to ring the trusty guild warning bell.

^why does it matter? The scam would already be done.^

LifeInfusion · Feb 19, 2007, 07:00 PM // 19:00

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Originally Posted by Warmaster Patton

Time to ring the trusty guild warning bell.

^why does it matter? The scam would already be done.^

It matters because that means there are larger matters at hand than just the icons.

Just icons means a visual glitch. A text glitch means a bug in the actual trade system.

garethporlest18 · Feb 19, 2007, 07:08 PM // 19:08

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Originally Posted by LifeInfusion

It matters because that means there are larger matters at hand than just the icons.

Just icons means a visual glitch. A text glitch means a bug in the actual trade system.

To me it showed just 1 traded, but I don't know about the person I traded with didn't think to ask him. I'm thinking it did only say 1, but I'm not sure, it might not have.

Maxiemonster · Feb 19, 2007, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Wow, most serious bug ever?

It suprises me that I didn't get a rollback.

Too bad I didn't know, I'd actually use this one

HKSdivision · Feb 19, 2007, 07:46 PM // 19:46

It seems they updated it but I haven't tried it out.

From GW.com:
Update - Monday February 19

* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused trade offers to be displayed incorrectly.

Mennovh · Feb 19, 2007, 08:41 PM // 20:41

nice to see this has been fixed.

The Ernada · Feb 19, 2007, 09:04 PM // 21:04

Suggesting a rollback is ridiculous. Only a small percentage of GW gamers can even afford ectos and such so only a small percentage of players were affected in a significant way by this scam. I feel bad for the people who got scammed. I can't stand scammers but rolling back will affect too many people unnecessarily. Hopefully the scammers got a perma ban for this.

LJz · Feb 19, 2007, 11:00 PM // 23:00

only small percentage can afford ecto's , wtf is that your defense? ppl say no roll back cause of event. u telling me no one has 10k in there storage ? there is no difference from this than there is from rune trader while back ago,except ppl got screwed from this from other ppl. we had to roll back cause ecconomy was gonna be messed up. like it matters if everyone in game had 100 sup vig. but now that ppl bust there ass to get what ever to actually have money in game for need to sell last weapon to finish getting FoW armor and he gets scmmed by game problem its ok? if this was a GvG or PvP flitch we would not have this discussion there would have been a rollback alrdy,but since only a "couple " people got hammered by scam we should just tell em , hey nice job sucker glad u finally got something worth a damn o and by the way hahaha u r still broke!

Enko · Feb 19, 2007, 11:13 PM // 23:13

i just bought around 100 ectos from someone and every time the displayed value was a different amount in the trade window. once i got the ectos into my inventory, it displayed correctly.

exiled mat · Feb 19, 2007, 11:33 PM // 23:33

Why should anoyone trade 100 ecto's anyway? :S

allas, i don't get people who actually want to pay so much for an armor which is easily replaced by some random 1K Armor

greens and 1K armor ftw

ontopic: horrible bug, horrible people who have used the bug to become "rich" ... NERF scammers please

Artisan · Feb 20, 2007, 01:07 AM // 01:07

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Originally Posted by LJz

only small percentage can afford ecto's , wtf is that your defense? ppl say no roll back cause of event. u telling me no one has 10k in there storage ? there is no difference from this than there is from rune trader while back ago,except ppl got screwed from this from other ppl. we had to roll back cause ecconomy was gonna be messed up. like it matters if everyone in game had 100 sup vig. but now that ppl bust there ass to get what ever to actually have money in game for need to sell last weapon to finish getting FoW armor and he gets scmmed by game problem its ok? if this was a GvG or PvP flitch we would not have this discussion there would have been a rollback alrdy,but since only a "couple " people got hammered by scam we should just tell em , hey nice job sucker glad u finally got something worth a damn o and by the way hahaha u r still broke!

Again, do you have any idea what a rollback over an event like the one we just had would do to the game? Half the playerbase would quit.

arbiter · Feb 20, 2007, 01:44 AM // 01:44

I think the main reason you couldnt roll back would be because anet doesnt know when this problem occured. It was a glitch that probably happened during the evnt update but no one knows when it was discovered, they would have to roll back the event completly to be sure and they cant do that.

The Ernada · Feb 20, 2007, 02:38 AM // 02:38

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Originally Posted by LJz

only small percentage can afford ecto's , wtf is that your defense? ppl say no roll back cause of event. u telling me no one has 10k in there storage ? there is no difference from this than there is from rune trader while back ago,except ppl got screwed from this from other ppl. we had to roll back cause ecconomy was gonna be messed up. like it matters if everyone in game had 100 sup vig. but now that ppl bust there ass to get what ever to actually have money in game for need to sell last weapon to finish getting FoW armor and he gets scmmed by game problem its ok? if this was a GvG or PvP flitch we would not have this discussion there would have been a rollback alrdy,but since only a "couple " people got hammered by scam we should just tell em , hey nice job sucker glad u finally got something worth a damn o and by the way hahaha u r still broke!

First of all, learn some decent english, learn to type and break up the goddamn paragraph. I had a hell of a time reading that garbage.

You just dont get it. Only a very very small percentage of people got scammed for a significant amount of gold. And you think a rollback that affects EVERYONE and screws most of the people who were not scammed in any way is a good idea?

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Originally Posted by LJz

if this was a GvG or PvP flitch we would not have this discussion there would have been a rollback alrdy

Umm why would any PVP "flitch" require any sort of rollback? This has never happend. Did you even think before you posted?

Yes it sucks that you got scammed. But now you're just being a selfish *censored* to want a rollback when only a relative handful of players got scammed by the exploit of this bug.

StarchyApple · Feb 20, 2007, 03:31 AM // 03:31

sorry for the dumb question..but what is a rollback?

Artisan · Feb 20, 2007, 03:43 AM // 03:43

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Originally Posted by StarchyApple

sorry for the dumb question..but what is a rollback?

Revert to a backed up copy of the data.

Judging from when the glitch occured, if they did a rollback because of it, it would erase everything that happened during the event.

Caspar · Feb 20, 2007, 03:43 AM // 03:43

Rollback:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollbac..._management%29

divinechancellor · Feb 20, 2007, 03:47 AM // 03:47

yea, some sick time machine that devourers my hard work

w00t! · Feb 20, 2007, 04:23 AM // 04:23

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Originally Posted by LJz

u know i am one that did get scammed
(snip)
ya saying that a roll back would be bogus cause of an event, r u serious?
(snip)
when a skill that is glitch gets abused in GvG it was rollback
(snip)

First, sorry you got scammed.

Second, you are confusing something in your post. When someone mentions rollback, they usually mean database rollback. That is nearly impossible to do in a MMORPG. Now, they can rollback code by reverting to a previous version, using version control.

Rolling back code is much easier than rolling back a database. I work for a fortune 500 company that routinely does disaster recovery exercises on transactional databases, and rolling back databases is scary difficult to do and fraught with peril. We often rollback code to previous versions, but I can't every recall us actually implementing a disaster recovery plan, due to the cost and the probability of failure.

Anet rolling back code would not solve your problem. The only thing you could do is to provide proof of your trade. Give anet the time / date / name, and they can possibly trace the transaction. Long shot, but might be worth trying.

Best of luck

LJz · Feb 20, 2007, 05:53 AM // 05:53

well i am dropping it nothing is gonna happen bout any of it,scammers gonna get Free Fow armor or whatever after there little week or 2 suspension.

Hell Raiser · Feb 20, 2007, 06:29 AM // 06:29

I don't think they would do a rollback because alot of people lost money this way, it wasn't lost because of stupidity like most scams, but I just don't see them rolling back the entire game (especially through an event). I think they should punish those who scammed this way, though.