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Sparklee wrote: »

Good that Nexon have finally been proactive in removing duped items (Now can we deal with these pesky meso sellers in-game?! They're everywhere!)

As for the punishment, good that all people got perm banned. "Knowingly or unknowingly". You see an item that seems 'way too good to be true' then guess what?! DUPED/HACKED/ILLEGITIMATE ! Whatever you want to call it.
You may see it as 'unfair', but you know what? LIFE IS UNFAIR! You just get back up after being punched down, and play by the rules. It's so simple!

Sorry, but I'd have to disagree with you. It's not that "simple."

I lost one of my prized possessions during the item deletion. I got an outlaw heart from marvel few months ago, which I cubed to 30% STR using meister cubes and red cubes. Being a mage class however, I needed INT % rather than STR % so I traded my heart with another player's who had 30% INT.

I'm pretty decent at spotting duped items since there are same copies of them being sold in different fm shops. The stats and item potentials of duped items are also very distinctive, because we've seen it circulate in the fm for many months and shown off by players through item megaphone. I tend to stay away from obvious duped items because I kinda foresaw this shady Nexon move to happen sooner or later.

Nonetheless, I was speechless when I logged on after the maintenance to see that they've deleted my outlaw heart. Either they made a mistake or the the outlaw heart that the guy traded me was duped. So it all comes down to this question; how is this our fault? How tf are we supposed to know which items are duped or not? For example, if someone duped a 30% Dex earrings, sold it off to someone, and that someone decides to recube the item to 30% Int, how are we supposed to keep up with this? If nexon clears duped item every couple maintenances as someone in this forum suggested, they could've prevented this unfair situation.

So basically, not only did I unknowingly traded my legitimate outlaw heart with someone's duped outlaw heart, but I also lost hundreds of hard earned dollars to scroll it, bonus cube it, and so on. Sure there are people who knowingly purchase godly duped items to show off, but I just want to inform you that there are people like me who unknowingly becomes the victim.

I think what koppelo1 means to say is that frenzy totems are obtainable in game, since they are from marvel or philosopher books. On the other hand, lvl 200 weapons were not available in game by ANY means during the time of the ban spree.

So comparing a duped frenzy totem and lvl 200 weapon, YES they are both illegitimate items. However one is available in game legitimately while the other is not.

This really isn't fair. How are we supposed to distinguish whether an item is duped or not? I was not too thrilled when I noticed that my outlaw heart was deleted upon login. No, I did not buy it from a duper or from the black market. I traded my old outlaw heart with another player in-game for different item stats.

I'm usually good at spotting questionable in-game items, because there are usually exact replicas of the same item (i.e. same scrolling, main potential and bonus potential) being sold in different shops in the free market, and they are also shown off by players through item megaphone. However, the outlaw heart that I traded was not questionable at all (to the extent of my knowledge), because it had a fairly distinctive and unique item potentials.

However, since it was deleted, my guess is that the player I traded with bought a duped outlaw heart and cubed over it to get the stat that I desired. So my question is, if players cube over duped items how are we supposed to know whether or not it's duped?

Also, is the market "safe" and clear from most of the duped items now? If Nexon plans on clearing more items in the next few patches, I might stay out of the market for awhile.