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Europeans Find Trouble In Camelot

Posted by simoniker on from the dark-ages-indeed dept.

Thanks to GamesRadar for their investigation into trouble with the European version of Dark Ages Of Camelot, following an earlier 'hacking incident' on the PC MMORPG. The piece discovers that: "Customers say access to their subscription accounts and ability to contact GOA.com (who hosts servers for the Mythic Entertainment game in the UK, France and Germany) was disabled without notice by the company, who later went on to disable all game passwords as well. Subsequent statements about time frames for services to return to normal have not been met." GOA's comments on the lack of notice: "...we were unable to communicate that this was a hack in order to prevent further attacks or damage."

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  1. Think for a second, will you? by analog_line · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mythic does not control GOA's servers. GOA's servers, even if they run software that Mythic developed, are not Mythic's servers. Sandra never said GOA hadn't been hacked, she was referring to the US version of the game, which is obviously kept under far tighter control than GOA keeps their stuff.

    She didn't lie, outright or otherwise. You're basing this accusation on wild speculation and a misreading, intentionally or otherwise, of the statements people have made. Not to mention the fact that you're completely obvlivious, or choose to appear so, to the plain facts of the situation. Get back to the VN Boards, troll. That's where your particular kind belongs. We've got plenty of our own kind of troll here.

    1. Re:Think for a second, will you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      DAOC servers haven't been hacked. The GM tools that the European server use were.

      By the way, any time Sanya speaks of DAOC she is only speaking of the American servers. She's the internet relations something or other for the American DAOC servers. She couldn't speak of anything going on in Europe if she wanted to.

    2. Re:Think for a second, will you? by Aggrazel · · Score: 2, Informative

      Mythic != GOA

      Totally different entities, totally different theories on how to run servers. I don't think the Mythic servers will even accept remote commands from a GM tool or anything.

      I am the Cleric Team Lead for Mythic Entertainment, its a volounteer position and I'm not an employee of the company. However, I don't think you have the full idea of the situation, I know I don't. But really, I think the security situation is much different on the US servers than the European servers.

  2. Re:Modding Simoniker down? by simoniker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait, wait. None of these posts are front-page posts, Jorn. You have 'collapse sections' turned on in your preferences - there's a tickbox that does that. If we were posting this on the front page, then I'd agree there was a major issue. But just about all of these games posts are subpage-specific. The reason there aren't so many comments per post is that the majority of readers only read the front page. Which is fine. But we have a good, significant (for the games website world) and growing community who log directly on to games.slashdot.org to check out the games news. So you can filter to remove these posts - and more to the point, you've already filtered to receive them.