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  • SixVoltCar
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    DBZVelena wrote: »

    Really? Somebody lost 3,5 years worth of progress possibly because of an exploit but boohoo if you have to re-do some hours of play. Selfish much?

    Well considering I represent the entire playerbase of this morning in this regard, yeah. Your emotions do not matter, and these problems should be fixable without the nuclear option.
  • DBZVelena
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    Juli'St wrote: »
    This question nobody has done before in the whole history of ESO:

    Will there be compensation for this extended downtime?

    o:)

    You can try asking for it. But i doubt you'll get it.
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  • blackdragon06
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    Seriouly... few hours for an hotfix. :s

    If you what has to be fixed you don't need few hours, just make the fix, stop megaservers, update, and restart. :/
  • majulook
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    gard wrote: »

    LOL an IP ban... How exactly would this work?

    IP ban is actually simple, just make a entry in a routing table. Only take a couple of minutes

    When I was working in a fortune 500 company's IT dept the senior network architect got tired of spam email from particular place and just blocked everything from that country (it was Ireland of all places). He blocked everything, Email, Web traffic, DNS, Everything..
    Si vis pacem, para bellum
  • Cpt_Teemo
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    Seriouly... few hours for an hotfix. :s

    If you what has to be fixed you don't need few hours, just make the fix, stop megaservers, update, and restart. :/

    My guess it wasn't just a hotfix, and something much more severe.
  • Johngo0036
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    Due to the nature of the exploit, we aren't able to divulge any details. That said, you can rest assured that we will be fixing it, and any accounts found to be abusing it will be taken care of.

    This is great news to hear that steps are being taken to sort out these expoiters.
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  • richo262
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    Some people at the lan bought the game today to play. This is a joke.
  • DBZVelena
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    SixVoltCar wrote: »

    Well considering I represent the entire playerbase of this morning in this regard, yeah. Your emotions do not matter, and these problems should be fixable without the nuclear option.

    Should and are, are two different things. And considering you do not represent the entire player-base. In fact you barely represent a player. We'll not listen to your opinion on this matter.
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  • Sheyta
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    I just read 'a few hours' here

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/366588/pc-mac-na-eu-downtime-8-16-10-40am-edt#latest

    thats sounds bad from a CIO point of view

    thats serios coding error or the one who need to fix it most get to the server inc traveling to location.

    then a few hours may be all night you never know
    Edited by Sheyta on August 16, 2017 4:04PM
  • Cpt_Teemo
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    richo262 wrote: »
    Some people at the lan bought the game today to play. This is a joke.

    a joke, while everything online can fall victim to exploits and you claim ZoS is the only joke, wow.
  • richo262
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    Are they writing the patch now? Why does it take so long to shut it off, install a patch, then reboot.
  • SixVoltCar
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    DBZVelena wrote: »

    Should and are, are two different things. And considering you do not represent the entire player-base. In fact you barely represent a player. We'll not listen to your opinion on this matter.

    Mm. Tally up all of the time the rollback would cost people, and then weigh it against his total play time in 3.5 years. I wouldn't burn down my house to remove a few rats either.
  • Mitrenga
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    Be calm people, ZoS is rearranging the increasing Argonian population. Servers will be back in a bit.
  • Juli'St
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    richo262 wrote: »
    Are they writing the patch now? Why does it take so long to shut it off, install a patch, then reboot.

    ... by the time of delay, I think they are still doing the patch ... or ... trying to figure out how to do it.
  • DBZVelena
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    richo262 wrote: »
    Some people at the lan bought the game today to play. This is a joke.

    Asure them that once the servers are back up, they will very much enjoy playing the game, and to join the forums in the mean time to get to know us. We're very nice.. I promise.
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  • SixVoltCar
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    Mitrenga wrote: »
    Be calm people, ZoS is rearranging the increasing Argonian population. Servers will be back in a bit.

    Buffing house Dres?
  • Kildayen
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    TeIvanni wrote: »

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  • yodased
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    I'm really intrigued as to how someone could bypass the security (2 factor authentication for unknown computer) in place to log into someone else's account, without knowing the password, as this would seem to be the case here.

    The login server and the game server are two different things, so in order to be able to hijack this poor dudes account, you would have to be able to somehow authenticate to the login server as person A, then change the variables being sent to the server from the login server to person B, but you would have to know person Bs identifier in the login server as well as their authentication chain for the game server to accept it.

    That's basically just reading the network traffic of the game and its inner workings like a phone switch, not sure someone has taken the time to do that.

    Unless there is something wonky going on with the handshake between login server and megaserver that is changing people's identities around. <- that would be hilariously bad.
    Tl;dr really weigh the fun you have in game vs the business practices you are supporting.
  • richo262
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    DBZVelena wrote: »

    Asure them that once the servers are back up, they will very much enjoy playing the game, and to join the forums in the mean time to get to know us. We're very nice.. I promise.


    I was the one that sold the idea of this game, they're pissed. Already they prefer we all just ensure we had Overwatch.


    There aren't many games we all have really.
  • TeIvanni
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    Mitrenga wrote: »
    Be calm people, ZoS is rearranging the increasing Argonian population. Servers will be back in a bit.

    About damn time! The n'wah were growing too bold.
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  • nine9six
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    SixVoltCar wrote: »

    Mm. Tally up all of the time the rollback would cost people, and then weigh it against his total play time in 3.5 years. I wouldn't burn down my house to remove a few rats either.

    While I'm not naive enough to think my hours are more than the WHOLE SERVERS...but think...if this happened to me...it could have happened to others.

    That said, I have a LOT of hours in those 3.5 years lol.

    I hope they don't have to roll the whole server back, and honestly, I don't think I'd want them to. Not "just for me". But I would like to have my isolated incident taken care of, and all of those who may have been affected as well. I'm not *that* big of a ***...
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    Due to the nature of the exploit, we aren't able to divulge any details. That said, you can rest assured that we will be fixing it, and any accounts found to be abusing it will be taken care of.

    Does it have anything to do with soul assault or any other channeled ability + mistform?

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  • Cpt_Teemo
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    nine9six wrote: »

    While I'm not naive enough to think my hours are more than the WHOLE SERVERS...but think...if this happened to me...it could have happened to others.

    That said, I have a LOT of hours in those 3.5 years lol.

    I hope they don't have to roll the whole server back, and honestly, I don't think I'd want them to. Not "just for me". But I would like to have my isolated incident taken care of, and all of those who may have been affected as well. I'm not *that* big of a ***...

    Yeah like I said before I don't mind losing my over night sales if it meant for someone to get there whole gametime total back
  • TomoTomo
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    All I'd like to know is when the server is coming back up.
  • richo262
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    TomoTomo wrote: »
    All I'd like to know is when the server is coming back up.


    It was a couple of hours ago an hour ago, now, it is a couple hours from now.
  • Lady_Ems
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    1. Yes, we added new Motifs to increase Writ drop chances with this latest update.
    2. We have not yet incorporated this.
    3. We'll do a better job at messaging changes like this in the future. :)

    I would like address an issue about not getting Alchemy writs yesterday. I did writs on 3 toons and only 1 was given the alchmey writ. Others did not get them. I posted about it in the bug section but no response yet. So I'm curious if Zos even knows about it to fix it? @ZOS_GinaBruno
  • Linaleah
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    SixVoltCar wrote: »

    Mm. Tally up all of the time the rollback would cost people, and then weigh it against his total play time in 3.5 years. I wouldn't burn down my house to remove a few rats either.

    you are assuming that he was the only one that was affected by it, when it sounds like multiple people were affected - he's just the one that posted in here, or ZOS wouldn't be so swift with shutting down the game.

    mind you, i don't actualy want to be rolled back. I didn't do much playing this morning other then feeding the mounts on couple of newish alts, but I did play last night and i did get a few things I wouldn't enjoy losing. the question here is scope of what is lost. a few hours of progress vs few years. so if the only way they can fix the issue is to do a rollback? let them rollback.

    especially if you consider a matter of.. not rolling back could mean YOU yourself have a chance of being eventually negatively, personaly affected by the exploit as well.
    Edited by Linaleah on August 16, 2017 4:12PM
    dirty worthless casual.
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  • Cpt_Teemo
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    richo262 wrote: »


    I was the one that sold the idea of this game, they're pissed. Already they prefer we all just ensure we had Overwatch.


    There aren't many games we all have really.

    Yet your account date says 2016, wow you weren't even in the beta and you claim you sold the idea of the game really lol
  • SixVoltCar
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    nine9six wrote: »

    While I'm not naive enough to think my hours are more than the WHOLE SERVERS...but think...if this happened to me...it could have happened to others.

    That said, I have a LOT of hours in those 3.5 years lol.

    I hope they don't have to roll the whole server back, and honestly, I don't think I'd want them to. Not "just for me". But I would like to have my isolated incident taken care of, and all of those who may have been affected as well. I'm not *that* big of a ***...

    Thus why I said "unless absolutely necessary". I don't expect them to browse and reverse several hundred compromised accounts, that would cost too much to do individually.
  • gard
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    GCVDJ11T wrote: »

    lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+you+ban+and+IP+address

    When that person's IP address expires and they obtain another one, will they still be banned?
    What happens to the person who had nothing to do with the exploit but who is now banned because he or she has dhcp'ed the banned IP?

    What's really funny is that three geniuses who gave you an "insightful", an "agree" and an "awesome" LMAO

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