Sony Rollbacks

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:38 pm

So I guess because they incompetently put beta merchants on the live servers (which really - how do you even do that?), they've decided to roll back toons - basically meaning you lose all the money and levels you have gained in the last two days, even if you never touched the merchants.

Logged in to find my cleric down from level 47 to level 35, with about 5000pp vanished.

Yay sony :D

EDIT: oh boy, they're offering double exp this weekend - that means I have to spend 4 hours instead of 8 to regain to where I left off. ;p

/pass

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:41 pm

yeah no shit it sucks ass

Jesus · Post by **Jesus** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:56 pm

It was only those who had contact with others who might have exploited the situation.

-Adam

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:08 pm

The only interaction I had with anyone was buying some lowbie cleric items from the bazaar.

Shitty.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:25 pm

All my chars are completely unchanged :dunno:

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:35 pm

I've narrowed it down that I must have bought some tradeskill items (for earring of the solstice) - and the person I bought them from must have done other totally unrelated tradeskills, and hence he might have bought one of those beta vendor items. So by that miniscule association I was rolled back as well because that person's rollback left him with the item I bought from him.

So because I bought a ceremonial solstice robe for 70pp in the bazaar I got jacked big time, wewt~

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:48 am

Thats so stupid

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:22 pm

dude that sucks sorry man

Post by **Arlos** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:19 pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHA, I just read more about this, and there are people that have now been double-rolled back now (rolled wednesday, figure that's it, then get rolled back AGAIN on friday). And people like Ralf are trying to say SOE is light years better than Blizzard? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

-Arlos

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:24 pm

yah I think I might have spoke too soon.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:25 pm

but annoying taxx was fun. :boots:

Post by **Martrae** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:27 pm

A friend of mine's take on the rollback.

If one person buys something from a bugged vendor, then goes to check out a baking vendor in PoK, which some poor schmuck finds when he comes along to buy a muffin, realizes he has the wrong vendor and moves on to the next one, then goes off to the Bazaar to eat his muffin and go look for some nice haste item so he can eat his muffin faster, goes to the trader, realizes he doesn't have enough money, runs to the hub to sell a blue diamond he's been saving for a rainy day, then goes to buy his haste item, while another fool comes along and finds this sweet blue diamond on a vendor, buys it and puts it on his trader, and then you come along and buy it for 400PP to complete your Grandmaster's Baking Spoon ... well, everyone in that chain is now infected, including you, and you will be rolled back. Any money, exp, items or hair you gain, you will lose. Any NPC you touch from then on has the blight, and they will gladly spread it to every single player that buys stuff from them, and they will in turn infect every player they interact with.

You think the bubonic plague was bad? Imagine getting the piece for the mage epic in Plane of Sky off of a freakin' drake on steroids, then come to realize that because the druid who handed you 3 copper for a key (because you forgot to bring money, you stupid git) had sold a foraged vegetable to the muffin man, and now your crown of eternal flame and cinder fury is missing from your inventory, and so are the 3 freakin' copper!