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Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected
hypnosec writes "Entire cities in the World of Warcraft have been destroyed with no one spared, not even the NPCs. About 13:00 GMT, forums on WOW started getting the first comments from users regarding players and NPCs dying on the Ragnaros-EU realm in Orgrimmar. Users of the online game started reporting that Draenor had a similar sight to offer. Some of the other realms where this was reported include Tarren Mill, and Twisting Nether."
Also at Joystiq, and (with more screenshots) at WCCF Tech, which reports that "it appears the damage is most severe in World of Warcraft European servers."
Really?
sounds like a first world problem
"WHO GIVES A SHIT!!?!?!?!?!?"
G A L A C T U S ! ! !
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
OH THE HORDEMANITY
This is horrible! Please tell us this won't affect Colleen Lachowicz's campaign for the Senate!
#DeleteChrome
That's not a game, that's a job, a very shitty one.
...of Warcraft.
The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.
We must find the chosen one and deliver to him the Sword of a Thousand Truths.
did someone take the wrong pill...?
http://anonymous.livelyblog.com/2012/10/05/nobody-seems-to-notice-and-nobody-seems-to-care-government-stealth-malware/
Let's just hope the Chosen Four will again rise, wielding the Sword of a Thousand Truths, to save the World of Warcraft!
...that they have a good backup system in place. I'd hate to face the wrath of *one* user who lost his character.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"I felt a great disturbance in the 'Craft, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were forced to come out of their parent's basement. I fear something productive has happend"
What is an NPC? How are 'cities dead'? Should everybody know what esoteric abbreviations and meanings are? If a city is dead, does it mean people lost their game characters or something (I really don't know anything about this game). Maybe a better summary is in order or is this story aimed at the gamers in that game only?
You can't handle the truth.
neeet! Not a fan of hackers, but if WoW had a way of doing this then sooner of later it would happen.
There was an unknown error in the submission.
worse than virtual pandemic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
What crap!!! Dumbass idiots lost their wittle world.
Find some medication, clear up that skin, get some sun and go out there and get laid!
Sheesh!
And if you do get laid and still play these effin' games, than you are truly lame.
Blizzard reports the exploit being used has been hotfixed.
I immediately thought of a funny comment, view the thread, and... no point really. So I do something even worse, comment about comments! - HEX
Horror & SciFi Erotic Nudes
Did anyone notice if a large bearded guy skipped thru the city? And will anyone band together and go into the forest to kill 1 hp creatures until they can level up to defeat the city slayer?
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Seriously, how does Blizzard, with Warden watching the client PC, forget that the client and ANYTHING coming in from the outside internet is coming from a possible enemy. - HEX
Horror & SciFi Erotic Nudes
Goddamn you, Leroy!!!!! XD
soylentnews.org Go there to enjoy the people!
Apparently someone discovered a way to do an instant "kill everything" attack and published it. Enough players then used it to kill everything in entire cities. Management has announced that they are doing "rolling restarts" on each realm today. It's not clear if characters will be re-animated, or what.
Properly, once they fix the bug that allowed a "kill everything" attack, they should resolve the matter in-game. Send in disaster recovery crews with healers, security, carts to haul away the dead...
WoW is the dregs of real MMORPGs. It may have the most people but Coors Lite is also the most popular beer. Think about it.
There was an unexpected server reboot this morning when I was in the game. Hadn't seen any unusual deaths, but perhaps Blizzard was applying an emergency patch.
A guildie found this and posted it on the guild forums:
http://youtu.be/B_vCFKuXrQo
http://wccftech.com/world-of-warcraft-players-mysteriously-dying-repeatedly/
Jenkins
Sounds like somebody is butt hurt
Sounds like a Charles Stross novel. Did someone rob a bank in the game, too?
After speculating that the person responsible must be a real badass, police have released this composite sketch of what they think the culprit looks like...
A Real Badass
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players affected will run around like morons for the next few hours while blizzard does a restore
Is there a Keanu Reeves character in this WoW thing? Will he see a glitch in the matrix if the city is reborn, complete with fake history? Maybe one of us should enter the new cities, tell them their world is not real, and offer them some colored pills?
Agent Smith. He pulls this kind of shit every so often. Just wait until he finds a way to bring The Lawgiver to the "real" world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs :)
.... of Warcraft! South Park saw it coming.
See what happens when you let technology go wild? Never should have let iron working into the game. Should have banned everything except magic and sorcery.
Maybe someone tried this exploit: 'At Klaus's suggestion, (Hailey) kills Steve's amazing character by saying his name, Agathor, backwards.'
Am I the only one thinking that a nude bomb would have been a better hack?
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
Someone obviously detonated the Cataclyst :)
Send in disaster recovery crews with healers, security, carts to haul away the dead..
Somewhere in a Realm of WoW:
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.
The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.
The Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
-- Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
This sort of reminds me of the Southpark episodes about WoW. Hilarious.
Oh no. I bet this resulted in pissing off a bunch of neckbearded faggots who've never seen a real-life cunt.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Was your account hacked? This doesn't seem like something you would write, as it did not in any way praise ron paul or demonize barack obama.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I went outside today. Yes, the real, actual outside.
The graphics were amazing.
Storyline sucked, though.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
I am not sure why this was /. newsworthy, but I'll play along.
After the events of Theramore and Jaina becoming their leader, I would have fully expected something like this to happen, with Jaina at the forefront of the battle.
She and about a hundred of the Kirin Tor teleport to a city.
They lay waste to everything in sight.
They teleport home and claim ignorance of the events.
People were saying they wanted a pre-expansion event like the undead plague. This makes up for it; just as annoying.
And nothing of value was lost.
You know, to be sure.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
me thinks china is sent a message....
in WoW and expediently started to crush some orc and troll skulls.
Blizzard has acknowledged the hack and hotfixed the in-game exploit.
It was the only way to be sure,
Huh?
Who cares its just horde citys...
Need I draw your attention to the Diablo III hacks, widely understood to be the result of information leakage from the clients in an open game and the server's failure to verify that the session ID provided by a client was actually issued to that client in the first place?
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
With that said, I'm going to put a pair of thongs on my feet to go down the road and munch on a couple of pasties.
What, strippers wear their thongs where? Ah, you call the things on the feet flip-flops or something. And why do they have baked goods on their nipples? Oh to hide them - but wait, why are you losers paying money to see strippers that show off less than you can see down at the local beach?
Look, how many times do we have to say it, do not use the generic knockoff of G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate.
I'll have you know that dwarf jokes are NPC!
I said - don't look Ethel!..., but it was too late..., she'd already looked.
but in REALITY, that's probably what Galactus would look like without any real power!!
nye-nye-ne-ne-nye
Somewhere a fat guy slowly takes a Dorito out of the bag and deliberately crunches it, while continuing to click on his keyboard with his other hand.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
How do you kill that which has no life?
Warrior 1: Somebody set up us the bomb.
NPC: Main screen turn on.
Hacker: All your city are belong to us.
Hacker: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Warrior 2: Move 'ZIG'.
Warrior 2: For great justice.
Ho Hum, the more things change, the more they remain the same.....
And nothing of value was lost
What happened to Tradewars?
This is what happens when Chuck Norris creates a WoW account...
Seems like Richard, our friendly warlock from Looking For Group has paid a visit to WoW.
http://lfgcomic.com
It was supposed to wait until 12/21
for crying out loud
My first account is unusable because /. is in fact full of your kind of people, intolerant, unintelligent, unable to maintain a conversation based on ideas rather than personalities.
First of all the "your kind of people" argument is bullshit. People of political persuasions similar to your own are extremely common on slashdot, unless a large number of them are actually additional sock puppets of yours.
However, even more so, the intolerant argument wreaks of hypocrisy. I challenge you to show even one example where you were tolerant of someone of a religious persuasion different than your own. I will tell you right now that you will fail this challenge, because no such example exists. You are repeatedly trying to force people into your religion by insulting them and displaying your favorite mantras, regardless of whether they apply to the situation or are in any remote way supported by anything that any reasonable person would ever qualify as a fact.
You sir, are a troll. Even people who agree with your political positions don't like to talk with you because of the arrogance in your conversation that makes the entire cause look bad.
So Bush's Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found.
. . . . the only way to win is not to play.
Did all the players and NPCs get resurrected as zombies?
Funnier, than when the disease exploit hit.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
Give a shit!
I agree. What if half of the football stadiums burned down from a serial arsonist. Almost the whole, freaking country would loose their minds. And I would be sitting comfortably telling them, "It's just a game. It doesn't matter and is not really important to life in general".