Following a bit of routine maintenance on Aion’s Azphel server, a few players noticied that their characters had some extra money, or kinah as it is know in Aion. To the sum of 30 trillion kinah!
The obvious mistake caused NCSoft to take the server down. It ultimately forced the developer to rollback the game in an attempt to restore the economy that was devastated by the flock of overnight trillonaires.
NCSoft is still looking into the issue, and is actively watching the other servers to see if it was a localized issue.
Here’s the official line.
Earlier today we began to receive reports that a small number of players on the Azphel server had received over 30 trillion Kinah as part of a reward glitch. Since that time, we’ve brought down the Azphel server and have been working diligently to identify how to restore economic stability. We’ve made the decision to rollback the Azphel server data to 6:00am CST this morning and will continue to monitor all servers for related anomalies.
It’s important to understand that we saw the rollback as a last option and made every effort to avoid doing so. We’re currently performing the rollback and anticipate the server will be back online at 10:00pm CST. At that point, all character progression on Azphel will be restored to its state as of this morning.
As an apology for the downtime, we’ll be rewarding everyone on the Azphel server with five Lodas Amulets later this week. It’s our goal at NCsoft to provide the best possible service to our customers. Our apologies for the downtime and as always, thank you for your continued patience.
One of the craziest MMOG stories I’ve heard since WoW’s Martin Fury scandal. At least they didn’t get banned.