I mean "interface said they could" isn't really a valid excuse, that's what exploits are, by definition they use game mechanics, as opposed to hacks which would involve injecting data and so on. The whole point is you exploit one of these issues(oversight, bad coding and so on) to gain a benefit that is obviously unintended.
Exploits can absolutely be something really dumb and obvious. GW2 launch massive exploit that got a ton of people banned was "buy an item for x gold then vendor it for x+y gold, repeat until billionaire". The level of complexity of the bug/issue doesn't matter, anything that can provide an unintended(in the spirit of the game) benefit is an exploit and they will ban/suspend if they have a large enough impact, for example on the economy(every single dupe for example). If you have a limited amount of weeklies or dailies or whatever, and these don't actually get expended when you complete them, and you just keep completing them 100, 500 or 7000times, then you're obviously exploiting an issue/bug that you know isn't supposed to work like that so acting like "oh but I was just playing the game" is stupid. That's been what gets people banned ever since UO house dupes and shit like that, and probably earlier than that but I wasn't playing mmos before UO.
Guys, I could only create X of these daily, but it just keeps resetting in the UI and letting me make millions of them! Clearly it's just a UI bug, lolololol!
Keep your voice down! In the next version it will scan the interwebz for dissidents. A few more versions and Robocob will knock on your door. With a rocket launcher.
I havent seen a single article touting box sales for this expansion. If anything, I would wager people are voting with their wallet and it aint pretty. Chris Metzen is a good sign that shit is going in the right direction, but I think it would take the rest of DF to recover any semblance of good will. Even then, they'll never recover the amount of people they lost after BFA and SL's.
