Thread: SWTOR - Emergency Patch To Fix Huge Economy Exploit

Two things are being fixed tonight that have been bugs since the release of the game. The exploit was kept in the dark mainly so players could reap as much credit as possible. Only recently in the past few days widespread knowledge of the bug came to light.

-An exploit was available that allowed players to sell stacks to vendors for infinite amount of credit. Literally millions of credits in just 15-20 seconds at a time.

-Another exploit that is being fixed is a way to get infinite commendations, by buying epic boxes and vendoring it back.

The problem that has occurred is many servers economy have totally tanked and are ruined as of right now with billions of credits exploited. Hundreds of thousands of items gained with little effort. Some guilds went as far as to buy throwaway accounts to do the exploiting and moved the money through other sources such as AH, mail etc to distribute the credits around.

It will be interesting how Bioware deals with the problem or whether there will be a way to track down all the tainted credit and who were the people that benefited from the scamming.