Elder Scrolls Online suspends hundreds of accounts over skill exploit

Elder Scrolls Online players who took liberties with an exploit that allowed them to easily skill up to their heart’s content are facing a suspension this week. ZeniMax handed out three-day time-outs yesterday for a few hundred accounts that abused the exploit.

“Last week, there was an exploit reported on PC that allowed you to repeatedly gain skill points from a single location,” the studio posted. “We have since fixed this issue as of our most recent incremental patch, but accounts had not yet been actioned… until now. This afternoon, we’ll be suspending close to 300 PC accounts that were found exploiting this issue. In addition to a three-day suspension, affected accounts will have all skill points reset to their original state before this exploit occurred.”

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