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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."
sounds like a first world problem
And nothing of value was lost.
OH THE HORDEMANITY
This is horrible! Please tell us this won't affect Colleen Lachowicz's campaign for the Senate!
#DeleteChrome
...of Warcraft.
The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.
News for Nerds. Nothing that matters.
We must find the chosen one and deliver to him the Sword of a Thousand Truths.
Dude I'm in your cities deleting all your dudes.
"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"
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
If you're on /. and don't know what NPC is, or how to find out, you're probably not the target audience here.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Blizzard reports the exploit being used has been hotfixed.
Goddamn you, Leroy!!!!! XD
soylentnews.org Go there to enjoy the people!
It was a troll reply to a troll question... thus very much deserved.
Besides, I agree 100% that if you neither know what an NPC is nor how to look it up on Google or Wikipedia, the story is largely irrelevant to you. Then again I would even wonder why "news for nerds" is even interesting for somebody like that?
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...
If you're on /. and don't know what NPC is, or how to find out, you're probably not the target audience here.
If you're on /. and don't like answering peoples' questions, even when it would have taken you less time to type than the snide remark you chose, you're probably the target audience here.
A little definition is in order. A stupid question is one you could easily answer yourself in less time than it would take to request hand-holding you don't really need. A stupid question is rude because it is effectively a claim that someone else's time is worth far less than your own, and therefore they should serve you (as if you are some kind of king) and do your own minor legwork for you. That is absurd. I notice you did not submit to it yourself -- you did not answer the question either -- so whether you like it or not, your actions are in agreement with me.
... they deserve the snide remarks they receive. When you consider he could have Googled "NPC" in less time than it took to ask a stupid question, the remark was actually rather polite.
Stupid questions from literate adults who obviously have Internet (thus Google) access
Sorry if you are too soft to recognize the good that comes from not lowering the standards to suit the intellectually lazy. Intellectual laziness and the choice to knowingly embrace helplessness are character flaws. They are not supposed to be validated. They don't deserve it.
Now then, go ahead and launch your personal attacks and invective. That's what those of your emotionally-goverened, offense-driven mentality usually do when the following two conditions have been met: a) they cannot formulate an effective counter-point, and b) they are too haughty to admit when a good point has been made.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
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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A four digit Slashdot poster is probably quite the catch.
You'd better believe it!
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
They're killing characters and npcs, not deleting them. Death is only a short-lived inconvenience in wow.
Killing npcs is more annoying actually since some can take a while to respawn.
The issue appears to be a combination of a teleport/wall-hack and the ability to kill any creature, npc or character with a single hit which obviously trivializes the whole game and enables griefing on this kind of epic scale. The hack was apparently found a couple weeks ago but only fixed today with a server restart.
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
Virtual people are dying. Have you virtually no shame?
I went outside today. Yes, the real, actual outside.
The graphics were amazing.
Storyline sucked, though.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
what the fuck does WTF mean?
rewriting history since 2109
While not "important" in terms of perhaps feeding and housing a population, WoW is probably "just as important" as the sports games you crave, or the concerts you go to, or the television channel you watch. None of which I give a shit about. Perhaps the point I am trying to make is that WoW is an activity that several million people participate in every day. While you or I might not, I'm quite sure that several million people do, actually, give a shit. If you argue that it's "not important", I can argue that it's as important as anything else is. Because at the end of the day, we're all dead, we're all specks of dust floating in an endless universe. There is nothing on this planet that is "important". It just depends on your perspective.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.