The Salvage Bans

Getting permenantly banned must suck. To know you invested all that time and have it taken away from you, never to return.

However, when I consider that not everyone involved in this got permenant bans I feel less sympathetic. People that got straight banned presumably either had previous or exploited the glitch so much it was ridiculous. Either way I wonder how many people I know that had full sets of Salvage gear will have vanished.

That exploit word is tricky too. [GM]Dave clearly subscribes to the school that defines exploit as exploiting a programming bug. From my point of view, though, it's not wrong to exploit lots of things in-game that benefit you: you can exploit the prices offered by NPC for certain goods; you can exploit the gardening hobby by setting up numerous mules; you can exploit the laziness of other players by cunningly undercutting at the AH. What you can't exploit is things that you know aren't supposed to be in the game.

So, exploitation, it's a not bad word, it just depends what you exploit.