Now rinse and repeat for EVERY FUCKING GAME with microtransactions/season passes/etc.
(Except those rare unicorn MMOs with a monthly sub and no microtransactions... if any still exist. Those are chill.)
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Yeah, I'm sure that'll endear the playerbase to you guys.
Why wouldn't you be using a type of system with rollbacks? WoW used to have rollbacks (return the server state to an earlier state) for when shit went absolutely insane. They didn't happen often but it was a lot better than having a few people's ill gotten gains ruining the economy.
You can't just roll back the database, you have to also replay any legitimate transactions between the last snapshot and now, and that's a whole other can of worms which I don't expect a game server would be prepared to handle out of the box
So screw it and do the roll back and just lose some transactions. You’re gonna have people pissed off at you no matter what.
Yeah. Give them that amount back in game credit so they can make the purchase again.
I don’t expect a game server would be prepared to handle out of the box
Which is why I was wondering why they don't use a system like that. WoW was having rollbacks in 2006 so not to have them in another game developed 2 decades later? That seems idiotic to me.
Wow didn't have the same problem. In 2006 you didn't have instant microtransactions, which in turn unlock in game currency, which then can be spent.
This is a chain of events which would normally be handled by an event database if it were to be made easy to roll back. You can imagine it working much like a ctrl+z undo, it's a stack of events which is deterministic and can be played back, forward or from a specific time. In theory you would identify the malicious transactions, roll back the actual database and then replay without them.
Why they don't do it? This is an incredible amount of overhead engineering with no value to be sold to the VPs of the company/project leads. It's basically insurance for an edge case. It would also cost them much more money/server resources in addition to the traditional database they also have to run in parallel for all other functionality. It's such a hard sell for a company who's only interest is the bottom line.
That's not how you'd do it. You can refund anyone who made purchases during the time frame you want to roll back since I highly doubt the game state database is the same as the microtransactions database. Then you revert the server to its previous state. Everyone loses everything they did during the rollback period but the server is stable as it was at the earlier time and in the original state.
Also wow added microtransactions in 2010 and they definitely had rollbacks after they added the microtransaction because it happened to my character once in Mist of Pandaria.
So if I log in to the game, I'll have hella money for skins? 🤔
Edit: Dont even need the money cuz they also gave every player every skin, even dev only ones 🤣
I stopped playing Rainbox Six Siege many years ago once it was clear that it was a live service game where you effectively had to pay for the new operator each time one came out, as your previous favourite would be nerfed or overshadowed.
Sweet! Now do this in real life!
Omg... 🤤
Lol amazing. Who ever did this is a GOAT.
Amazing. Can someone please do this for Minecraft next? Asking for 6 year olds around the world
There are microtransactions in minecraft now?
There are skins and lava or something. Kids are exhausting.
Ads are next, given Microsoft and this shit world...Can't go outside cause the rich fucked the environment and can't stay in cause they fucked all the joy from every corner of entertainment. I really want to flay the rich and display their corpses along every road into town, Game of Throne's style!
Found the guy whos 6 year old somehow spent $900 on their credit card in minecraft
The kid got a 10% off coupon and doesn't understand money or that we still have to pay the other 90%. He also won't give me the coupon so I couldn't buy his gold if I wanted to.
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