Some Neverness to Everness players are learning the hard way that exploiting bugs in this game can come with extremely severe penalties.
Over the past day, multiple people have reported receiving bans lasting up to 36,500 days, so pretty much a 100-year suspension, after using or even just sharing a recently discovered exploit linked to guaranteed Gold Cartridge rewards.
What Was the Exploit?
Without giving you too much information, the exploit basically involved using the “dungeon” entry timing and level selection in a very specific way. If you managed to trigger the bug when you entered certain content, you could obtain guaranteed higher-value rewards like Gold Cartridges, far more consistently than intended.
The method was, of course, shared pretty quickly across social media, videos, and livestreams as players demonstrated how it worked. Still, it now appears the developers are treating the exploit much more seriously than many expected.
Even Demonstrating the Exploit May Lead to Punishment
What surprised many players is that the reported penalties do not appear to be limited to players who are massively farming the exploit, but also to those who share it. If you repeatedly use the exploit, publicly share the details on how it works, or even demonstrate it on stream or video, you may all potentially trigger a pretty long account ban.
That has led to some backlash online, especially because many players viewed the issue as a harmless PvE exploit rather than something directly harming other users.
Players agree that the exploit should obviously be fixed, but the permanent bans do not really feel justified. Exploiting unintended mechanics for progression still violates the game’s rules, especially once you knowingly repeat the behavior after realizing it is bugged, and publicly spreading the exploit only accelerates abuse. However, the punishment is disproportionate for a mostly single-player progression exploit that does not directly impact PvP or things like rankings.
A warning would have been understandable, but the reported 36,500-day suspension seems like overkill, especially since the game just launched.
Best Advice Right Now: Avoid Any Exploit Entirely
Right now, it does not matter if you agree with the severity of the punishment or not. The safest option currently is to avoid any exploit completely. Even testing it “just once,” recording it for content, or showing it to friends may not be worth risking your account until the developers officially clarify their enforcement policy further. So if you see any bug exploit online, try to avoid using it.
Given how aggressively the issue is apparently being moderated already, this is probably one shortcut in Hethereau that you should skip entirely.
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