Corruption claims a friend, R.I.P. Klokwurk Options

[Mute]

Wow, I really hate the Internet Explorer keyboards. I had a nice long descriptive post about how corruption effects us all, but it was wiped out when I hit "backspace" and Explorer intrepreted this as go back. Good-bye post. Anyways, just wanted to say that a good buddy of mine, some of you may know him as Klokwurk, lost all his main characters to the freeze corruption bug last night. I was hit pretty hard by it, since he's been a playing partner of mine since the DC days. I don't think he's gonna quit, however, but I do know that this bug is still very much alive and should really be dealt with by the server support team. Not that it will do a damn thing, I decided to write a little statement to Sonic Team Support (hah!). Here's what I wrote:

I'm writing in regards to inform you all that the looming Freeze bug that corrupts PSO data is still VERY much present and the double save is the major cause for character corruption. While, this second save does indeed help against illegal item duplication, the risk of character loss is far greater in the eyes of the community. Not to mention that there must be several other ways of duping, due to the fact that duplicated items are ALL over the place. Anyways, last night, a buddy of mine suffered this Freeze while joining a game and lost his character to "corruption." He was very much an active player amongst our group of friends, and now it seems he will be leaving. This corruption bug effects ALL players, regardless of direct loss or loss of a buddy. I only urge the support team to look at this issue further, or to even remove the second save if at all possible. Thank you for your consideration and keep up the great work!

Hopefully, I'll get some sort of response worth my time. I won't hold my breath though. =/
R.I.P. Klokwurk, your RAcast will be missed. T.T

[HC82]

There is so much duped crap flying around it's easy to replace anything lost; athough it depends if replacing lost items via cheating is justifiable due to a bug that occurs to stop cheating...

I lost a level 174 FO, 100 FO, and a 120ish HU. At my level there was seriously no new challenges to do. Your characater growth slowed down. It felt like there was a SUPER ULTIMATE mode missing, with higher max stats to be gained. Minor level up bonuses didn't make a huge impact on your performance like it did in your earlier levels. Losing a character sucks, but it's about having fun playing the game. Granted things like this shouldn't even happen, but the loss of exp isn't a big deal when the future of your character is destined to face a flawed growth system.

Point is the only thing really lost are nice legit rares that were one time finds and difficult to replace. The levels are trival if you think about it. Only takes a few weeks to get to 100+ and your able to own ulti with ease. Once you hit that level you can take it easy and just play to play, because stats become trival, despite how many dozens of levels your character can reach.