IllegallySane Wrote:It's true common sense is required in order to find what's a glitch before it's ever declared. However, the example you used is much different than the BF glitch.
1. The BF glitch was harmful in a sense it allowed people to power level, but it did not break the game.
2. The Pickpocket glitch. It's VERY obvious that this broke the game, because it caused there to be a ludicrous amount of money being generated that not even hackers could produce.
3. The White Slate glitch does not produce more mesos, and having more godly items available in the FM does not break the game either. Rather, it'll reallocate the mesos among more people (to those that managed to obtain and sell White Slates). If anything, it slightly decreases the meso supply because of tax, and in the off chance it blows up a godly item in the making, then there's more demand for said item/scrolls.
1. Is it a glitch? Yes
2. Is expoliting a glitch against the ToS? Yes
3. Are people exploiting the glitch? Yes
4. Should a punishment be issues? Yes
The previous holds true for all three situations you have listed. Punishments were issued for the first two, hopefully it is yet to come for the third. The FM is filling with gold coloured equips as we speak.
Harrisonized Wrote:What KMS glitch? I had not heard of this glitch, but if such were possible, I'd say yes, it was not a glitch. If KMSnexon was stupid enough to make such a feature, then yes it is a feature, not a glitch. After all, what kind of a program designer would intentionally tamper with something and then ban everyone who took the bait?
Hypothetical situation:
You go to a bank and suddenly a ton of money slams out of the ATM when you make a withdrawal. Then the bank informs the police that you STOLE their money when it was not the case. That's where common sense and logic collide. You must abandon the "common sense" because it does not work.
Thank you.
It was not their intention to have PickPocket drop that many mesos. This is made clear by the fact it was quickly taken care of. If it was not intentional, it is obviously not a feature. It was a glitch. And your last sentence, the answer is no one... Which just pretty much shows that it wasn't intentional. Therefore how on Earth could it be an intended feature. Therefore, it's a glitch. Your paragraph, until you find a better way to phrase it, contradicts itself. As for your hyopthetical situation here, did the person leave this money right where it was (symbolic of not abusing the clean slate/white scroll)? Or did they simply take the money and run with it (abusing it)? If you never touched it, you can't have stolen the money.