Shadowbane World Closure Due To Counterfeiting?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @05:22PM from the all-out-to-get-me dept.

Thanks to Terra Nova for their posting discussing world deletions/consolidations in the PC MMORPG Shadowbane, analyzing rumors that the measures are "a fairly sophisticated attempt to clean the bad gold out of the economy." The piece informs: "The official reason [for closure] seems to be the fact that populations are too low", but it's pointed out that "...those being booted from SB's Scorn and Treachery servers are leaving with nothing but the clothes on their back: no bank items, no coins, no property", a drastic step which some say is down to the fact that "...much of the gold in [Shadowbane's] worlds is duped rather than earned." Is this a simple world consolidation, or desperate economy-balancing measures?

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Part of the normal plan by Drakino · 2003-10-01 17:35 · Score: 3, Informative

The SB developers were pretty clear at launch that they didn't intend to have 10 indentical worlds, but had to due to time constraints. They did plan on destroying many, and forcing people to move long before these cheats happened.

I do have a feeling the rampant gold duping might be a reason those two are going first, but, gold duping is a problem on every server.