During Alpha Two testing of Ashes of Creation, players exploited a dupe glitch to gain benefits.
The exploit allowed players to dupe materials, gain gold, enhance node treasuries, and craft legendary equipment with ease.
As a result, the game developers took severe action, including eliminating duplicated materials, resetting offending treasury nodes, initiating emergency elections in nodes where ill-gotten buildings were created, and deleting over 100 characters involved in the exploit.
The creative director of Ashes of Creation emphasized the strict enforcement of their EULA and ToS against cheating and exploiting, urging players to report such activities instead of participating in them.