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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.
"...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
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
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?"
D. Hacker thought it would be funny as shit to send a boatload of users to the bottom of the ocean.
(I pick "D").
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.
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.
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.