Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years

Earlier this week, news surfaced that some savvy modders of Valve's Left 4 Dead were able to find a way to enable console commands (meant for the PC version) in the Xbox 360 version of the game. This allowed players to increase the size of their character models to ridiculous proportions, spawn unlimited weapons for themselves (or unlimited enemies for other, unsuspecting players), and go around the map deleting objects as they saw fit. A video posted on YouTube showed how to enable the commands. Valve reacted swiftly to the issues, releasing a patch to disable access to the commands a few days later. Several readers have pointed out another exploit-related story which broke recently; in EVE Online, a bug that was reported and went un-patched for four years has recently come to light, apparently responsible for the fraudulent creation of trillions of ISK, the game's currency. An anonymous reader says that (illegitimate) sales of ISK between players and farmers run on the order of $35 per 450 million ISK.

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I hate consoles, and the article is wrong.

[Tei]

Earlier this week, news surfaced that some savvy modders of Valve's Left 4 Dead were able to find a way to enable console commands (meant for the PC version) in the Xbox 360 version of the game.{{yea, why no? console commands are fun. Are console commands disabled on the consoles? aaaarghh...}} This allowed players to increase the size of their character models to ridiculous proportions{{WRONG, the player is on a unreal-style "roomsky". is like a skybox made of a real room somewhere on the map}} , spawn unlimited weapons for themselves (or unlimited enemies for other, unsuspecting players), and go around the map deleting objects as they saw fit {{cool!}}. A video posted on YouTube showed how to enable the commands. Valve reacted swiftly to the issues, releasing a patch to disable access to the commands a few days later.{{WHY?.. its like the "forge" that Halo have. Or whatever other tool to change the gameplay of YOUR server. More locked down, hum??.. no nice to play on consoles!!}}

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CCP does have an honest to god real life professional economist on staff. ~z

Yeah, but these days we call him an "economist" (with quotes) since he's clearly too incompetent to notice the creation of trillions of ISK worth of materials without the requisite manufacturing/mining process to support it.