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Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Chaos Ensues
Vanguard(DC) writes "There was a major hacking incident last night on the servers of Shadowbane, a newly released MMORPG by UbiSoft/Wolfpack. The attackers wreaked havoc on at least one game server, with apparent god-like capabilities in-game. There's already an official statement on the forums - 'Ubi Soft and Wolfpack Studios are now working with law enforcement, and we promise all of you that these individuals will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.'" There's a little more information via a post on the SBCatacombs messageboard - apparently the carnage (including many less powerful players getting killed) involved "..teleporting people all over the world, teleporting hostile guards into the safe-holds, bringing in hordes of special event monsters, and teleporting everyone to a city at the bottom of the sea."
...'cause that shit is funny!!!
Just roll the game back 24 hours and play on.
Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Hilarity Ensues
Man that rules. I would have loved to have seen that. Should be a feature in more MMORPGs.
"Now featuring WRATH OF GOD mode, where pissed off GM's show you what it would REALLY be like if god cared. Experience plagues, meteors, and lightning from a clear sky. Divine retribution like you've never seen it before! Just 20 dallars a month."
Heh.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Boy did I have a good laugh about the chaos going on in Shadowbane. The Matrix has them.
Fear the machines!
I can see the police blotter for the individuals responsible:
"Teens arrested for acting like God in computer game"
Some really powerful shadowbane players!
"...city at the bottom of the sea."
Homer: [fearfully] Marge? Kids? Everything's going to be just fine.
No go upstairs, and pack your bags...we're going to start a new
life...under the sea.
[calypso music starts]
[Homer dances with fish as Lisa plays a seahorse saxophone,
Marge a squid harp, and Bart the xylophone clams]
Homer: [eats a dancing fish, sings]
Under the sea, under the sea,
[eats a couple more fish]
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea!
[eats a line of seahorses, grabs an escaping one]
[eats a live crab as though it were a shrimp]
[eats a pair of dancing fish, then a snail who tries to escape]
[stands there with fish skeletons floating about]
Marge: Homer, that's your solution to everything: to move under the sea.
It's not going to happen!
Homer: Not with _that_ attitude!
Gibble: Descriptive of an emotional state in which one's mind is scrabbling for some purchase on reality
When people start to exhibit the ability to really fuck up your world like this... ...it's time to send in Agent Smith.
graspee
if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?! :/
Microsoft blame Torvalds
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
SBCatacombs struck by massive DDoS attack. Shadowy band of crackers known only as "/." suspected. Law enforcement has been called in.
It's a good thing I've got a life, otherwise I'd be pissed.
Maybe some company should start selling some type of insurance to help people in these trying times.
Now please excuse me while I begin laughing hysterically.
Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Brief Period of Actual Fun Ensues
The list of reasons for why a hacker would want to do this is pretty short.
A: The hacker has a dislike for the company because he/she/it works for a competitor, and knows that this kind of an embarassment will nearly wipe-out this game.
B: The hacker has a dislike for the company because he/she/it was fired or otherwise feels wronged by the company, and knows that this kind of an embarassment will nearly wipe-out this game.
C: The hacker is immature and just wanted to play god in the game, because that would allow him/her/it to "win" by beating people who had worked hard to attain high status in the game.
No matter which situation turns out to be true, the hacker(s) need to be delivered to law enforcement to be shown that you just don't do this to other people's systems even if you have the technical ability to do so.
And there was this time the implimentor was drunk. Turns out he's an angry drunk. This story really brought back memories. :)
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
Roll back the game 24 hours, harden the servers, and prepare a creative press release -- problem solved.
"High level characters summoned the Cthulu mythos through misintrepreting portions of the Necronomicon. Accordingly, some of the space/time contiunuum in the game world was temporarily disrupted."
"If you see a glowing green orb, please be aware that this is the Locknar and should not be approached. Unpredictable results may occur."
"Unfortunately, in Shadowbane a character named "Sauron" acquired a randomly generated treasure named "The One Ring". We are investigating the probability factor of the random treasure generator and will patch this in release 1.01."
"Our improbability drive is malfunctioning. Please stand by."
Honestly, I'd be more willing to buy this game if I realised they had a sense of humour.
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
UBI's made some of the worst games I've ever seen. Including the only game I've ever seen crash an 8-bit nintendo. If a game looks interesting, but it's got their logo, I put down the box of plague and move on.
A horrible company employing horrible people who should be subjected to cruise missle attacks, or worse.
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
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Maybe that should read 'slashdot users'
Just because it happens to be a game doesn't mean that no one is responsible for screwing things up. Try walking into the NBA playoffs and stealing the ball.
Jack Nicholson and Calvin Klein, notwithstanding...
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
I almost died laughing when I, years later, saw The Wrath of Khan.
Plenty of hacked moby ships too.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Do you also not think that anyone hacking Amazon should get prosecuted?
;)
Not if it takes more then one click to do it
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
Yah, but this is like hacking into Chucky Cheese and making the big mouse head start singing the Barney Song.
I mean come on, so freaking what!!!
Isn't there an old story in the Jargon File some place (or some other Sacred Text) about some players who hacked into a text based MUD many years back and went flying around in the Star Ship Enterprise?
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My bank has reasonably good protection from hackers. If they didn't I wouldn't bank with them, perhaps people should have applied that to their choice of MMORPG (if you look there are enough reports of similar happening on this game before).
Answering your point though, if they did hack into a bank then yes, there should be repercussions, but they didn't. Spitting in the street doesn't lead to homicide, it's not a long slippery slope that needs to be nipped in the bud. Just apply some perspective.
Wrong thread.
You're talking about the SCO conference calls.
If I had 'God' powers, I'd teleport your post there...or worse.
Not only is it funny, it sounds like it might have actually been fun in a weird warped way to have been playing at the time...
After all, it is a fantasy game, why couldn't this have happened within the normal confines of the game?
"What, how the hell did I get at the bottom of the ocean? Oh, great. Now I'm in the middle of my worst enemy's keep...This is not my beautiful castle?! This is not my beautiful wench?! How did I get here?"
Well, fun to me, at least. I don't take fantasy computer games that serious
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
Damn! You got so defensive that you wrapped around and ended up offensive! Way to go!
Wow, an apologist for substandard roleplaying software. Haven't seen one of those since the days of the UO beta. Hope not to see one again.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
PLAYER 2: It devoured my avatar. It was a really good avatar. Then I had to play it all again to get the skills back and I had to do it fast, and it wasn't as good. It was kind of a ...bummer.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
I used to help run a BBS run on an Atari ST (can you believe it?), and the system was so obscure, that we developed a "DOS simulator" for those who tried to hack our BBS and its (limited) games. We faked things like "dir" and "erase" and even "edlin." It was a multiline, so if the hacker tried to "IM" himself (back then software called it "teleport"), he got through, but if he tried it to others, it went to /dev/null. When people did a "who," they got the job :
Hacker: Port 3: [Thinks he's hacking the BBS, tell his mommy!]
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What would a jury think? That people who spent 500 hours building up an imaginary character need to be compensated for their loss? I can just see some uber-gamer breaking down and crying on the stand because their elf now has to start from level 50 when it took him 3 straight months of playing 5 hours a day to get to level 55. (or whatever the terminology is) More than that, how are you going to get a jury of this person's peers to try them in court? How do you interview a jury like that? OK, what is your favorite magic spell? Have you ever spent more that 12 hours straight playing a game? Is your BMI over 40? Picard or Shatner?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Yeah, me too.
No matter what they call it....it was an act of GOD! Case dismissed!
"When I arived at the ToL in Khar all I saw was a field of tombstones, and some guys kyting the guards around. Next thing i see (as i make my way to the Runemaster) is a R30 Mino barb beating the piss out of some r1 who went there to train (like i did), i mean beating him like a red headed step child."
I mean, isn't this the way that video games were MEANT to be played?
The Death Penalty: Killing people to show others that killing people is wrong.
at 3030 trans all; force all quit
:)
Oh.. Never played DIKU MUD?
"I thought that question was: Kirk or Janeway? "
Actually, the full question starts with "Who would be on top?"
I may be wrong, but I'm never uncertain.
Conan the Barbarian: ... and the next morning my sword was gone, and the gold pieces, and...
/Tor
Cross-Examining Lawyer: And, if I may ask, where did you get those gold pieces in the first place...?
Conan the Barbarian: Well, I killed this dragon and...
Cross-Examining Lawyer: Murderer!! You killed, pillaged and raped to get this money and now you have the stomach of accusing the defendant, and honor student in the other end of the kingdom...
Conan the Barbarian: But it was just a dragon...
Cross-Examining Lawyer: Racist!! There we have it, honored members of the jury, Mr Barbarian here is not only a thief and a murderer, he is also a racist. That nullifies any and all of his allegations. You must aquit.
Some guys have avatars.
Some of us have girlfriends and wives.
Some of us have girlfriends and wives.
There's (at least) two ways to read that:
--Groucho Marx
But that brings up a hitch: Wouldn't it be slave trade to sell that avatar - marriage material - on eBay?
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
Enevts like that proof we don't live in the Matrix. Otherwise Godzilla's would be popping up in New York every time someone finds another hole in one of the servers...
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