Un señor de ANet comenta la jugada en Reddit (es el post resaltado en amarillo, el primero de todos): http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1txukz/massive_linen_jute_farmer_bans_last_night/cecx7db
There seems to be a rather large misconception of what transpired here. I will clarify.
The Rules of Conduct clearly state the following: You will not exploit any bug in Guild Wars 2 and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug (bugs that grant the user unnatural or unintended benefits) either directly or through public posting, to any other user of Guild Wars 2.
The bug here was that there were 2 groups of monsters that were instantly respawning when they were killed. This bug was being abused by players in order to gain unintended benefit. These players were also communicating the existence of this bug to other players in their guild (and others), which in turn was luring those players to also abuse this bug.
While this bug may have existed since launch, the abuse of it was highly localized to a specific server and a specific timeframe. After our agents identified it as a problem, it was investigated. Our investigation showed that there were a high number of players abusing this issue, including a large percentage of users using automated macros and bots to farm these instantly respawning monsters.
This was abuse of an obvious bug, and action was taken against anyone caught exploiting this bug. The issue has since been fixed.
Please be aware that when a bug is identified, abusing it for gain is considered an exploit and may result in action being taken against your account. If you believe you have found a bug that can be exploited, please report it to [email protected].
Creo que no hay mucho más que decir.
Me sorprende, no obstante, lo de que es posible que el bug existiera desde la release pero nadie lo hubiese explotado hasta ahora. Diría que el bug existía pero no se había manifestado; es decir, que el error en el código estaba desde el principio pero, por algún motivo, las condiciones que lo disparan, sean las que sean, no se han dado hasta este momento. El diseño de software es así de puto, es perfectamente posible que haya pasado eso.
Pero, de todas formas, lo de "es que yo sólo he farmeado diez minutos" me hace mucha gracia desde que ANet se dedicó a ir uno por uno de los que decían eso en Reddit cuando lo de las armas de karma y a publicar cuántas armas habían comprado realmente. Del "sólo compré una o dos" al "tu cuenta tiene 500 transacciones de armas registradas". Desde entonces que ya no me creo nada de lo que diga la gente.