Though there’s no information about this on Steam, a post on X reveals access to THRONE AND LIBERTY is currently unavailable as NCSOFT and Amazon games deal with an issue that upended the economy in this free-to-play MMORPG. Word is: “In order to resolve a service issue we are performing an unscheduled maintenance. During this time servers will be unavailable.” Calling this a “service issue” is a bit of a deflection according to a video on YouTube on the situation (thanks Nick). This explains that in attempting to compensate a guild for missing out on some Sollant game currency, a customer service representative instead awarded each of the guild’s members over 180 million Lucent, a different in-game currency that’s “worth” considerably more. Word is that in the real world this haul of spacebux is valued at somewhere in the neighborhood of $215 million, which is a bougie neighborhood indeed. The newly minted in-game millionaires, like many coming off a bank error in their favor, decided to go on a spending spree. The resulting inflation quickly turned into the game’s own Black Friday. The video sums up what happened in two lengthy sentences:

Due to this major mess-up, players took the opportunity to, as quickly as possible, spread out that Lucent to purchase as many items as possible, emptying the auction house and putting these prices to crazy amounts, which I assume indeed alerted players and then Amazon Games caught on, and have since shut the game down for emergency maintenance.

It is very likely we’ll get some sort of a rollback to the time prior to when that Lucent was given out, unless they have seriously good track records of things and can generate some code to properly redistribute the items back to the proper owners and evaporate that Lucent that should never have been added to the game.