Europeans Find Trouble In Camelot

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."

Comments

Re:Modding Simoniker down?

[RobotWisdom]

I think this is a very interesting news article, as it illustrates the divide between how a 3rd party is handling the running of a game differently than the original company.

The point of Slashdot is to FILTER the most interesting news stories. If the filter is set to include everything this specialised, then you get so many items that they belong in a separate weblog for game-obsessives.

The real giveaway is that Simoniker always attributes the stories to the websites rather than any Slashdot reader-- he's spending all day reading game-news sites, so even if he only posts one-tenth of what he reads, it's still vastly more than any normal human could care about.

Two-star game reviews? Handjob interviews without screenshots or gameplay details? The Slashdot crew needs to draw a stricter line... imho.

Re:Think for a second, will you?

[I am Kobayashi]

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.

First, by definition "DAOC servers" includes both those operated by Mythic and GOA. Sanya (not sure who Sandra is) may have meant "Mythic servers," but that is not what she said. And actually my recollection was she later stated that when she stated DAOC servers she intended to include the GOA servers (but I can't find that story/clarification - it was probably removed from their site.) And this question was specifically made because of the GOA situation, she was responding to that. So if she meant only Mythic servers she should have made that clear. It is obvious her intent was to include both GOA and Mythic servers, and hence her choice of language.

I suspect GOA lied to Mythic as well, but they shouldn't have made such a broad sweeping statement without getting the facts first.... How can you really know your servers are secure, when you don't know how the GOA servers were hacked? Hmmm? Please answer that for me... Even if this wasn't a lie (probably a poor choice of words on my part) it still shows incompetence and ignorance (and perhaps hubris?) on the part of Mythic.

My intent was not to troll (but thank you for enlighting me with all the facts you provided (that is sarcasm by the way)). I simply provided quotes from two articles. They speak for themselves. I trust in the readership of /. to be intelligent enough to judge for themselves. As far as my "misreading," I am not misreading the text. Perhaps Sanya misspoke. I hope you are right and Mythic does do a better job than GOA of controlling and securing their servers. But my point was that personally, I don't like to be mislead, especially when it is in regards to my personal and financial information.

But that is just me....