Oh yes, I've ordered my own authenticator. It just cracked me up when I was going through my pally's mailbox -- pages and pages of gem and abyss crystal auctions, and when I finally get to the end, there's the core hound pup with a message thanking me for taking this step towards account security...
We definitely got back more abyss crystals than we lost, because he sold the ones from the guild bank and the ones from sharding my pally's offset gear, and we got all those restored along with the gear itself. I also think we got restored too many gems, because he had bought/auctioned a bunch of gems with my honor, and both the gems and my honor were restored. Our GM said the gems he got back didn't even fit in the spot where they used to be. The 5000 gold I gained was just liquid cash, it's hard to say what the overall profit was including the value of the extra items. (And then I'm sure all the people who bought those auctions got to keep their purchases, so that's even more stuff floating around in game that shouldn't have been.)
But yeah, no matter how shiny the band-aid is, I'd rather not have gotten hurt in the first place. I wonder if anybody's heard about generous restorations after an account compromise and tried to fake getting hacked. They'd be an absolute idiot to try it, of course.
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Date: 2010-09-21 07:20 pm (UTC)We definitely got back more abyss crystals than we lost, because he sold the ones from the guild bank and the ones from sharding my pally's offset gear, and we got all those restored along with the gear itself. I also think we got restored too many gems, because he had bought/auctioned a bunch of gems with my honor, and both the gems and my honor were restored. Our GM said the gems he got back didn't even fit in the spot where they used to be. The 5000 gold I gained was just liquid cash, it's hard to say what the overall profit was including the value of the extra items. (And then I'm sure all the people who bought those auctions got to keep their purchases, so that's even more stuff floating around in game that shouldn't have been.)
But yeah, no matter how shiny the band-aid is, I'd rather not have gotten hurt in the first place. I wonder if anybody's heard about generous restorations after an account compromise and tried to fake getting hacked. They'd be an absolute idiot to try it, of course.