08-08-2003, 03:47 PM
My take on the whole matter is that they were wanting people to playtest from the start instead of importing items, which made it very difficult to debug from a Q/A standpoint. Though I can't honestly defend a patch that effectively *erases* all the legit items you've obtained with characters. With the amount of hacked items on the realms, perhaps the only way to fix things is to wipe everyone's items and make everyone start from scratch. Unfortunately, that means the bad apples spoiled the game for legit players(but what else is new).
I'd rather be part bull than a complete sheep.