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An exploit in World of Warcraft recently enabled a group of hackers to wreak havoc on large cities across a number of servers. The hackers were able to massacre entire cities unimpeded for nearly four hours, killing all players and non-player characters (NPCs) at will.
It is believed that the exploit gave the attackers game master (GM) powers which include the ability to override agreed upon duels and use instant-death skills to perform one-shot kills. We are hearing that busy cities like Orgimmar and Stormwind were targeted across nearly half a dozen servers including Draenor, Ragnaros, Tarren Mill, Tichondrius and Twisting Nether.
It’s possible that WoW expansion pack Mists of Pandaria introduced the new exploit. Alternately, it could have been present for some time and only used sparingly as to remain under Blizzard’s radar.
A member of OwnedCore has already claimed responsibility for the hack. As part of a lengthy discussion on the topic, member Jadd said his team didn’t do any permanent damage and noted that some people thought it was funny to watch. He believes that Chinese gold selling companies are ruining the game, not people like him. Those who didn’t enjoy the attacks should blame Blizzard for not fixing it faster, he said.
Blizzard representative Nethaera says the exploit has already been fixed and should not be repeatable. They are conducting a full-scale investigation into the matter and encourage anyone with information to contact them via email.
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VitalyT said:
Well, this news is just as useful to us as that rocket to the coyote - yahoo!
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This is great!!!! I agree the money farmers need to have this happend to them!!! Maybe Bliz should instigate a system similar to this to take out the chinese money bots. Or the AFK botters. Either way it would be great to see!
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Its a funny hack.. hehehe
how about blizzard doing something about the gold sellers? not just in wow but in diablo 3 too
Gold sellers do a little bit of good and bad... They setup farming bots and supply the auction house with things that some would rather not farm on their own. Unless you like to farm, then they're annoying paladins using a scroll of resurrection account and are farming all your ore. When Blizzard shuts them down you can watch the supply drop off the AH and the prices climb to the unaffordable. It's an interesting market.
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BrianBlaze said:
Reminds me of that scene in vege tales. People who abuse bugs for bad reasons aren't considered hackers? >_>I 100% Agree this is not a hack just a bug someone found before Blizzard did lol Kind of like how yo uare not a hacker if you find a script online and use it haha
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Its a funny hack.. hehehe
how about blizzard doing something about the gold sellers? not just in wow but in diablo 3 too
Gold sellers do a little bit of good and bad... They setup farming bots and supply the auction house with things that some would rather not farm on their own. Unless you like to farm, then they're annoying paladins using a scroll of resurrection account and are farming all your ore. When Blizzard shuts them down you can watch the supply drop off the AH and the prices climb to the unaffordable. It's an interesting market.
And, let's be brutally honest here... Gold miners add to the population numbers that Blizzard can parade through the media, and put consistently reliable subscription money into their coffers. So, it's not really in Blizzard's best interests to spend the time and resources in thwarting gold miners, until they begin causing some kind of tangible and provable damage to the population or Blizzard's profit margins.
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And, let's be brutally honest here... Gold miners add to the population numbers that Blizzard can parade through the media, and put consistently reliable subscription money into their coffers. So, it's not really in Blizzard's best interests to spend the time and resources in thwarting gold miners, until they begin causing some kind of tangible and provable damage to the population or Blizzard's profit margins.
And it's not like Blizzard can easily hop on over to China and knock on the door of one of these gold farming operations with the cops and make them stop.
My favorite part was Jadd saying "Those who didn?t enjoy the attacks should blame Blizzard for not fixing it faster" Couldn't have possibly been your fault, right Jadd? What a D-bag.
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Cota said:
Its called Incompetence, any one who had played WoW know that blizz is ran by a group of down monkeys, even if it was hacking there is a lot of not-hacking crap on the 12 years old fat cow.
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Did they died?
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It's just a game after all and shit happens.
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