A response to the hackings.

All that needs to be said is that there is a fringe case that breaks any system. The greater good, which in this case is compensating the customer properly and with equivalent value to what was lost, is more important than accidentally paying a few people trying to scam the system as well. You shouldn't shoot down every method with some fringe case and claim it'd ruin the game if a few people scammed the system. You play a game run by hackers and big spenders, and you all continue on blissfully unaware of the state of the game you spend so much time on. If you haven't noticed it already, you won't notice the impact from this system either. You can't honestly believe this compensation is fair though, nor any compensation less than the amount lost. You must realize that free to play or not we are owed some customer service when events out of our control basically wipe our progress. Had you spent 6 years and thousands of dollars on a character, and lost it all in one fell swoop, something tells me you'd feel differently about what constitutes proper compensation.