Greetings,

We'd like to make a brief statement to address the allegations of corruption within the Light's Hope team.

Over the past week, we have been holding an internal investigation after receiving reports of several RMT outfits offering unbanning services as well as 'untraceable' gold purchasing.

We have been able to confirm that attempts to delete database logs were made between December 21st-30th, although a secondary copy of the logs were not altered. We also found records of ban removals and activity on a number of characters that had previously been confirmed as having been duped during the Elysium Project.

As part of our investigation, we formed a group comprising senior gamemasters and developers to review all relevant system and core logs in detail and we're currently in process of vetting the core for any potential exploits (two minor exploits have been identified thus far). We have found evidence to suggest that the core contains at least one exploit which RMT outfits have been attempting to use to conceal their trades.
This investigation is ongoing and so far we've found no evidence of external intrusion into our systems, nor have we found any evidence that incriminates any particular member of the team. Unfortunately, having to make a public statement so early into the investigation has potentially compromised our efforts and will likely make the task of unraveling the situation significantly harder than it otherwise would have been.

As a team, we work hard to bring the community a solid vanilla experience and we're disappointed at the thought that a trusted team member working with us would seek to undermine the project for personal gain. We know that somebody out there, particularly the RMT outfits that we've identified as being involved, will have information that could help our investigations and we'd invite them to reach out to us (anonymously, if desired) and help us with solving this case.
All accounts and characters created as a result of these actions have been banned from our servers, likewise with those that received any gold through illegitimate means. We will have further updates in due course as our investigation continues and we work to uncover those responsible.