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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."
No, I'm not one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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According to the inventor, people once laughed at Einstein, Edison, and Tesla. It will later be confirmed that he is correct and will attain the ranking of such prominent scientists. LOL!
From his Speech, on the Conferance Call-
"Last year we had 7 callers for our earnings, this year we have over.. 240 callers on the line"
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Colin Davis
" if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?! "
I hope WHO does take responsibility for all the holes in Windows. IMHO using Windows is a health risk.
OLPC Australia
I really, really, really wish that one of the game companies would grow a pair and write code to search through all the 'official' discussion boards for their games and look for the words 'subscription' and 'cancel' and then trace the posters name and actually CANCEL THEIR SUBSCRIPTION.
It seems like every time every game posts every patch there is some subset of the population who feels that the changes in the patch were designed to solely screw them out of whatever their favorite way of playing is and in response they are going to cancel their subscription. Then a week later you seem them bitching about something else because they haven't actually cancelled their subscription and they've found something else they don't like.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
I bet you post a lot of ME TOOs on the USENET.
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
Just a publicity stunt! I heard a story about Brittiney Spears getting some tatoos, and then discovering that the chinese language characters actually said something other than what she was told by the tatoo parlor! Stuff like this is just designed to get attention from people who want to know all about someone else's misfortune. Imagine, game players that have nothing better to do, the cyber-space equal of skateboarders, getting their game screwed up! This is the stuff of Supermarket tabloids! And, caters to the same crowd!