Taskbar Hero Sanctions 20,000 Cheaters, Plans to Resume High-Rank Item Trading
The sanctions and planned market resumption aim to restore the game's economy after cheating disrupted high-rank item trading on Steam.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
The idle RPG Taskbar Hero has sanctioned approximately 20,000 users for cheating. The developers plan to resume Steam market trading of high-rank items after confirming stability, and will release a development roadmap within the week. A DLC adding trade ship slots and compensation coins has also been released.
The development team at Nugem Studio and Tesseract Studio applied sanctions to 20,406 users who created or obtained items through abnormal methods or used unauthorized programs. The sanctions include game access restrictions or market access restrictions depending on severity. Trading of high-grade equipment on the Steam market is planned to resume once further stability is confirmed, with a specific date to be announced later. The developers also released a DLC that adds five trade ship slots and distributed 70 commemorative coins as compensation for server issues. A roadmap is scheduled for release within the week.
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