That’s right, anet apparently remove one hacker, one single hacker, who has been disrupting things, most likely for a certain t1 server, and the BBC write a non-story about it!
Seriously if the BBC wanted to write a real story they should come to this forum!
This post like the several before it will be closed, deleted, removed.
And that’s sad considering the original topic had many questions that went unanswered.
Now, i get Chris may be extremely busy following up after that action. However, instead of taking joy in doing that he should probably be assuring the community that as the Lead of Security, he’s looking into the how and why players are able to hack functions of his game and actually fix them.
That does not even remotely suggest there was some demoralizing theatrics by some Anet employee as that story suggest.
Unless you have conclusive evidence an Anet employee did all that in which the story claims, your links literally means nothing to the stories theatrically claims,
Unless you have conclusive evidence an Anet employee did all that in which the story claims, your links literally means nothing to the stories theatrically claims,
I know right, they make it sound like there was just the one hacker in the game :P
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This story has also now been regurgitated on several gaming publication websites, ripping off the BBC article almost word-for-word (looking at you, PC Mag and PC Gamer). It’s getting a lot of attention.
Also, what on earth is wrong with the people in this thread who are claiming Anet had nothing to do with this? Chris Cleary, game security lead, actually posted the link to the youtube video himself and then said “oh yah, he’s banned.” Go read the thread, there’s no way you can possibly white knight your way through this.
edit: and yes, although I don’t really like the term “white knight” as it’s usually used, when you’re defending someone or something against cold hard facts that are right here in front of you, I think it’s appropriate.
Every time a news article is written about a topic which you have more knowledge about than the reporters, they always make lots of mistakes — often major ones.
So how much can you trust reporting when it’s on topics you don’t know much about?
In any case, it took “hacker part 10” before something was done about the hacker. That’s the real story.
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It is hard to ban hackers in gw2 and most mmos because they don’t have any anti-hack system. FPS games like battlefield 4 have 2 anti-cheater system and people still find ways to bypass them.
The only way people get banned here is if they start abusing speed+fly hack and either get seen by a GM or recorded on video by several players… There are stuff like ESP hacks that let you see players through walls/objects/stealth, radars, that will never get detected without a good anti-cheat system.
The good thing is that with the exception of fly+speed, all the other hacks that are harder to detect are not a big deal on gw2. Unlike fps where a single cheater can kill an entire 64men team.
1- No reason to strip him naked (the act of a child).
2- No reason to make the char jump to it’s death (the act of the same child who thinks he’s cool).
3- No reason to show us the character being deleted.
The fact he said “oh yeah and we banned him” seemed like an after tought that was never his original intention.
Good job on making yourself seem like a childish human being when you should be acting like an adult without even a word of him being banned, the fact he has gone is enough, we don’t need to know what you did.
This just proves my point that Anet really have no respect for it’s player base in it’s behaviour towards the good and the bad.
1- No reason to strip him naked (the act of a child).
2- No reason to make the char jump to it’s death (the act of the same child who thinks he’s cool).
3- No reason to show us the character being deleted.
The fact he said “oh yeah and we banned him” seemed like an after tought that was never his original intention.
Good job on making yourself seem like a childish human being when you should be acting like an adult without even a word of him being banned, the fact he has gone is enough, we don’t need to know what you did.
This just proves my point that Anet really have no respect for it’s player base in it’s behaviour towards the good and the bad.
Wait. Your defending the hacker?
Now your portraying the hacker as the good guy here and the dev who banned the account is the bas guy?
1- No reason to strip him naked (the act of a child).
2- No reason to make the char jump to it’s death (the act of the same child who thinks he’s cool).
3- No reason to show us the character being deleted.
The fact he said “oh yeah and we banned him” seemed like an after tought that was never his original intention.
Good job on making yourself seem like a childish human being when you should be acting like an adult without even a word of him being banned, the fact he has gone is enough, we don’t need to know what you did.
This just proves my point that Anet really have no respect for it’s player base in it’s behaviour towards the good and the bad.
LMAO. Wow, are you actually being serious? I don’t even know where to begin. Childish human being? Did you even read your own post? Unless you’re being triggered (go to tumblr pls), I think you’re overthinking this and blowing it out of proportion.
1- No reason to strip him naked (the act of a child).
2- No reason to make the char jump to it’s death (the act of the same child who thinks he’s cool).
3- No reason to show us the character being deleted.
Public humiliation is one way to prevent people from doing bad things. I think Chris Cleary is a hero. I wish we had videos like this for every hacker who gets banned so we can watch them, celebrate, and wait for them to come back on their new $10 account.
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Guys, don’t you get it, the real offender here is the callous employee who childishly shamed the person who used illicit methods to achieve an advantage in the game, ruining it for hundreds of people on a routine basis. Why don’t you feel sympathy for the cheater you monsters
