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Both could be considered exploiting a loophole, but the point I was trying to make was that Blizzard fixes these problems in a way that benefits most those who 'exploited' the most.

To me that indicates a significant issue with the way they approach these problems.
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I don't think electrolanterns are a good example of hurting those that didn't exploit them. How did changing the price of electrolanterns hurt anyone? What could they have done to help those that didn't exploit them? Give them a free horse? I agree that their fix was a little over the top: the sell price went from something like 16s to 66c; i.e. probably not even worth picking up.

The best example of the draconian nerfs that I recall is the fishing nerf. Fishing went from being reasonably profitable (for a real player) to just a time sink (i.e. tough to break even on the cost of lures). This change made fishing something you couldn't do at all for profit, and pretty much stripped it of any "fun" value for me. I understand that Blizzard wanted to prevent bots from doing this 24/7; but it sure didn't seem like they spent any effort at all at keeping fishing a viable profession.