There are problems with hackers in ArcheAge: New difficulties are becoming known, and now it is affecting the auction house. Worker wage potions have appeared in large quantities there. Even Trion Worlds believes that something is wrong here.
ArcheAge has problems. Even in beta, tens of thousands of players were banned for accessing the early phase of the game with fake credit cards. Lately, hacks have been circulating, and now a new problem has emerged that affects the game’s economy.
The “worker wage” potions have always cost around 8 gold in the auction house. As players report in the official forum, huge amounts of these potions have now appeared on some servers for only 4 gold. And we are talking about hundreds of these potions, which are so important for crafting, appearing at once. It is hard to believe that this happens through a logical “in-game mechanism.” Because someone who spends that much “real money” to get in-game currency would certainly diversify their assets to gain more gold from it and not ruin their own market.
A possible reason for the flood of potions seems to be that players want to quickly convert illegitimately acquired credits (for example, through hacked founder accounts or fake credit cards) into gold. They want to turn the gold back into euros or rubles or whatever via eBay or gold sellers. Some kind of “money laundering.” This seems to be time-sensitive: speed is more important than achieving the maximum gold gain Y from premium currency X.
It’s like with all these topics in ArcheAge by now. The discussion gets started. Players come in and say: the thread opener shouldn’t take it so seriously. It’s definitely possible. After all, it’s a sandbox, where everyone can do what they want, and one shouldn’t attribute the strength of others to hacks and ruin ArcheAge by talking about it. Then the situation escalates further, and the signs that there is a problem become clearer and clearer.
In this case, however, the evidence seems to be clear and suggests that something is wrong with the sudden appearance of these potions. Trion Worlds has also commented on this: they find the situation suspicious as well and are looking into it.
It is to be hoped that Trion Worlds will get the turbulence around the player under control as soon as possible. According to their own statements, the problems are known, and they are working hard to investigate property preemption rights or to eliminate the teleport hack.
