Sorry dude, I see your point of view and I agree. But after putting months on end and day in and out practice and strategy finding only to have an exploit like this make its way to the public, and having about 4 teams compete for #1 right before the leaderboard reset. All teams agreed to do it as we could never know the malicious intent people had so no one could devalue their efforts by saying you only got #1 because you exploited and we didn't.
100% zos' fault?
You put 0 blame at the doors of the people cheating?
If you leave your front door unlocked that doesnt give anybody free reign to rob your house.
And clearly people like you don't see a little thing called personal responsibility.
Sorry dude, I see your point of view and I agree. But after putting months on end and day in and out practice and strategy finding only to have an exploit like this make its way to the public, and having about 4 teams compete for #1 right before the leaderboard reset. All teams agreed to do it as we could never know the malicious intent people had so no one could devalue their efforts by saying you only got #1 because you exploited and we didn't.
I'm not defending anyone I'm just saying it was necessary due to an incompetence at fixing a game breaking bug. And I do not believe this devalues anyones efforts at all. Stop trying to devalue an achievement we all agreed upon, none of my team really wanted to do it but we had to if we wanted our efforts to actually pay off, same with anyone else.
No it's not 100% their fault, and I find it very hard to trust people on the internet to be good sports about such thing, and I also blame zos 100% for leaving this bug in for months.
Now please, take this argument away if you want to continue it PM me.
I don't think it devalues the score what so ever, if both teams were going for #1 and this exploit you can never know who was doing it, you kinda had to agree to be open to it to keep things "fair", it's not right at all and it is unfair in a sense as its an exploit, but it was needed to keep it all fine between the two teams, we had been in VDSA for about 5 months progressing and something like this comes along and ruined it right towards the end, it's not worth for either team to throw their effort away. It shouldn't ever come to that, and I'm not justifying it, I'm just giving you an example of what some of the incompetence to bug fixing right away leads to in serious end game.
100% zos' fault?
You put 0 blame at the doors of the people cheating?
If you leave your front door unlocked that doesnt give anybody free reign to rob your house. They are still thieving *** and the law would agree.
Did i say hackers are not responsible? Its sure as hell they are. But some part of respnsibility lies on Z. Its a freaking old and simple software that was used. There is a reason why now its mainly used in single player games. No MMO would allow this to happen, well at least i thought so till this point.
SlayerTheDragon wrote: »IS THE LAG BETTER NOW??
And I never said that ZOS aren't at least partly responsible. I am merely saying the dogpile of hatred on them at this point is tiresome.
I completely agree that ZOS should likely shift more stuff client side as opposed to server side for a start, and there should be GM's in game like there was at the beginning. And that is just the start of what they could do.
However these idiots chose to download software that has nothing to do with ZOS and do this. That is what I am getting at. ZOS did not tell them to do this. This is something they did off their own backs.
And plenty of MMO'S have been hacked. Just google hacking followed by Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft and others.
I agree that other MMOs were hacked, but ffs... with CE?
And I never said that ZOS aren't at least partly responsible. I am merely saying the dogpile of hatred on them at this point is tiresome.
I completely agree that ZOS should likely shift more stuff client side as opposed to server side for a start, and there should be GM's in game like there was at the beginning. And that is just the start of what they could do.
However these idiots chose to download software that has nothing to do with ZOS and do this. That is what I am getting at. ZOS did not tell them to do this. This is something they did off their own backs.
And plenty of MMO'S have been hacked. Just google hacking followed by Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft and others.
arth-grogalith wrote: »
So in essence what you're saying is that it's OK for a game with a $200m budget to be hacked by spoilt, bored 15-year-olds using a world-famous platform? That ZOS shouldn't have known better, in the light of the very precedents in other MMOs that YOU've mentioned?
I beg to differ.
Funny story about Major Update 6, because we had such a close compeititon with HODOR we had to both agree that we're allowed ot use the double mundus exploit so that we can keep a fair competition. Sucks when that happens, but when an exploit like double mundus goes viral you have to all agree to do it so no one is on the upper hand.
Evasion: Casting this ability and its morphs now requires that you wear 5 pieces of Medium Armor.
Believe me, the budget of this game was not 200 million dollars
And, of course, ZOS should make security and indeed should have made security much tighter and a priority.
However, as with everything in life, if hackers want to hack
Now is this an excuse? Absolutely not. They need to start looking inward at their client and the servers, and shift and fix and move things around.
But those that chose to hack have responsibility too. Never forget that.
Come tomorrow night my guild mates & I will kill them all free of charge
SlayerTheDragon wrote: »
I had lag all of the night in TF NA. I'm always suspicious of my end since I live in a third world, but others in my grope complained as well. They from US, Canadia and Rooland.
@Ch4mpTW on this issue I lost faith about a year and a half ago.
I love this game, I love the developers but as I've said there is some messed up backwards corporate style of running things going on which doesn't mesh with an MMO company.
I won't give up given them lip for these kinds of issues, I just wondering how long it's worth trying for rather than playing the game and pretending it's not cheat2win.
So for ZOS (if they're still reading) once again here are all the examples of what you should be doing.
SWTOR Exploit Warning Post
EVE Online Exploits Page
Diablo 3 Exploit Warning Post
Guild Wars 2 Reddit Comment
Take note of how every other major company actually talks about the issues, how they warn people and then ban them and then ban them.
Here is an example from EVE Online from this year.
Firstly they make a news post when they become aware: https://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/drone-exploit-notification/ This news post is on the websites/forums/launcher/character select or as close to everywhere they can get it.
Then they fix the issue ASAP, not "next update" ASAP.
Then they look through the data and reports and take action against accounts.
Note that CCP now has a two strike policy (down from three) meaning temp ban, then perma ban.
They have a smaller player base and ESO but haven't been doomed by very draconian rules enforcement so that argument can't be used.
Here are three videos from their security team talking about rules enforcement and server security. Notice how they're open about things.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vd-CpnjvAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CZR9w3ftjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBD7CL9oQqE
On a personal note which I am not sure matters to ZOS but hey ***...
I really hope someone from ZOS actually takes the time to watch those videos, because for whatever you want to say about EVE Online the company running it are probably one of the best in the world. I invest seven years of my life into that game, took five vacations to Iceland to attend their fanfest, dropped money on $100+ collectables, was a member of a corp (guild) of friends for five years.
This year I unsubbed and left all of that behind because I liked ESO more, for all the issues this game faces I enjoy the base mechanics and gameplay of it more. However when threads like this are happening, when I sit and work reading the forums at lunch and every single day I see a new thread about exploits get buried and ignored or just moderated away, I have to ask myself why am I bothering, there are better ways to spend my time and money.
So you openly admit to cheating in the past, in a thread you created to blast cheaters... Wow...
I always wondered this myself what did they add before Imperial City that brought so much lag.I know their was lag with final keep battles when everyone in the dam faction was their at the start but it was only at that area now its everywhere.Tommy1979AtWar wrote: »I'm on console and was wondering about this... when ESO first launched on console it actually worked, there was no lag etc but a few weeks before IC was released there was a notable downturn in performance.
So was the anti cheat code in the initial console launch and if so why as it's not really worth the effort in jailbreaking current gen consoles, or was it added a little while before IC and that's what caused the significant drop in performance.