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Yup
I'm not referring to anyone specifically Sponholz.. in any of my posts unless I quote you by name. .. just having a conversation.
All in all a rollback wouldn't really be bad for me at all. While i gained a lot of gold and skill shards.. I didn't need either very much. A rollback would not put in a bad position at all. It would really mean some of my weaker characters would need skill shards again (mummy ed, Wicker Ed, CR Ed). I didn't gain any massively powerful new characters. So, please realize I'm not really advocating to retain "my stuff". Sure I want to keep the gold and skill shards, of course, as would anyone. But even considering a rollback wouldn't really be that detrimental to my account.... I don't think it's the right thing to do. Primarily because nothing which anyone gained could possibly alter anyone else's game play. As I posted, all it did was fast forward some players. Yeah NF may have lost revenue, but taking the rewards away would be more devastating overall.
In technical terms, I doubt NF has a DB backup from 4:59pm Pacific yesterday... I mean they might, but but well, I doubt it. And I also doubt they want to individually go through every account that was logged in between 4:59 and 5:59 to see their activity and what they may or may not have gotten then go yank skill shards from characters, yank characters from players.. yank gold from accounts.... yank evo runes, yank evo stones, yank ironite, yank SOT/SOW... And what if they miss some accounts? How can I be sure they removed the rewards from EVERYONE and not merely my account?
I do understand the FOMO but really that's all it amounts to in my opinion.
Either way I think a rollback or otherwise penalizing those that were rewarded is a horrible PR move with no upside. You've got players very happy because they got a "express pass" - they'll stick around power up things and possibly spend.... and you've got players angry because they missed out they will stick around anyay.... the only way you are going to lose players.. is take away the express passes.