Tree Of Savior Suffers "Silver Hack," Loses About 1/4 Of Its Players

Jason Winter
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Tree of Savior, IMC Games' spiritual successor to Ragnarok Online, found itself facing a major issue a few weeks ago. It appears that a player implemented a hack that generated infinite silver (ToS's in-game currency), which allowed him to purchase nearly everything off the game's trading post. Some players caught on to this and started listing items for exorbitant prices, which were quickly bought up as the hacker spread his wealth around.

So, everybody profited and it's all OK, right? Not exactly. IMC Games took action on Oct. 2, "correcting the error and preventing it from being abused again." A lengthy downtime followed, and when the game came back online, everything was back to normal.

Not exactly. To try and correct things, IMC returned any non-consumable items sold and removed the silver from the seller's account. Several accounts were temporarily restricted and reinstated eight days later, while those who were considered to be abusing the system received permanent bans.

It's the kind of messy nightmare scenario that no MMO developer ever wants to have to deal with, and it seems to have affected Tree of Savior's popularity. SteamCharts shows a marked drop in ToS's player count, which is down about 25% from what it was prior to the Oct. 2 downtime. I learned about all this thanks to a Reddit post extolling the game's virtues and imploring players to return if they were put off by the game's rocky launch, so at least someone out there is still singing the game's praises.

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Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor

Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

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Discussion (2)

Manipulator 6 years ago
Ohh i remember the memory I cherished with this game, start with download the game, actual playing the game, intro.. kicked, perma banned for nothing.. oh man it was awesome

Ghestly 6 years ago
I played Tree of Savior from launch about 4-5 months, they never addressed properly issues with bots/hacks... they only made painful restrictions for everyone who plays, basically they did not fight the problem but consequences all the time... after i left and returned after 1 year, bots still were going strong in specific maps they were almost trains of them... even if i really liked the game, restrictions and bots made me leave that game again after few weeks. I was curious to check out whats going in Tree of Savior, but now i think i will pass my revisit.


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