Guild Wars 2

Currently there is a hacker from the Underworld server teleporting into towers and keeps, killing the lords and capping them. Anet is performing “Maintenance Work” at exactly the same time and I’m wondering if anything will come of it. I have the account name, however cannot post it. But what I want to know, Anet, is how can you not see this? If you’re doing maintenance work, can you not see what is going on?

viinnii.9280:

Currently there is a hacker from the Underworld server teleporting into towers and keeps, killing the lords and capping them. Anet is performing “Maintenance Work” at exactly the same time and I’m wondering if anything will come of it. I have the account name, however cannot post it. But what I want to know, Anet, is how can you not see this? If you’re doing maintenance work, can you not see what is going on?

This is a very common hack in WvW yet you don’t see in PvP. Why? Could it be that Anet has the capability for enforcement but uses it only for their precious PvP?

But this will all be fixed soon enough. After all, they promised WvW will be top priority when HoT comes out, right? Right?

Maintanance work does not mean that they are looking for hackers, nor does it mean they will check each server logs to see if a hacker is loose on it or not.

If you have a account name, and even better a video then send this to exploits@arena.net with time stamp and short explanation about whats happening. Do not expect anything happening within hours, maybe even days. And do not expect a answer back telling you what they did or did not do. This is something that no game company are allowed to give away since most of them are using non disclosure agreements, and i can only asume that a-net are no different.

You’d think that Anet could auto-detect character movement across a map that is beyond the distance of all skills and flag it for investigation.

Leaa is correct. Just because they were doing maintenance doesn’t mean that bells and whistles were going off while their monitors flashed red to let them know it was happening. In fact we have no idea what kind of maintenance was taking place, or what level of admin privileges the techs had that preformed the task.

But aside from that five bucks says they have something in the works to plug these leaks, but its one of those things that stays behind closed doors for obvious reasons.

its not a matter of not spotting the hacking/exploiting. Its a matter that they don’t care. Between the obvious Blacktide hackers (with videos), to the golem exploiters during that week long event..to a necro flying through the air today in EoTM, to a warrior teleporting around…. they do not care about WvW in the slightest.

If this was sPvP, they would be all over it….Thats really all they care about, aside from gem store and living story…

Chaba.5410:

You’d think that Anet could auto-detect character movement across a map that is beyond the distance of all skills and flag it for investigation.

This is the root of the problem….because they cannot do this. All of your movement settings and other character properties are stored on the client side. Nothing is sent back to the server. So when someone writes a hack to modify the client settings character speed nothing is ever transmitted back to the server, and even if they put something on the client to try to send something back to the server, the client side hacker could intercept it etc. So the root problem is in the architecture…which is why they cannot fix the hacking issue without a serious overhaul in design…..

The invisible UW hacker is again in EB right now. Anet, stop sitting on your lazy bum, ignoring the problem, get your people online and stop this rubbish already.

Lord Kuru.3685:

But this will all be fixed soon enough. After all, they promised WvW will be top priority when HoT comes out, right? Right?

Can you provide links to source where they “promised” us anything?

briggah.7910:

Lord Kuru.3685:

But this will all be fixed soon enough. After all, they promised WvW will be top priority when HoT comes out, right? Right?

Can you provide links to source where they “promised” us anything?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Invitational-Statement-from-John-Corpening-game-director-for-World-vs-World/first#post5350913

“we’re working on more solutions for the areas I have outlined”

That’s as close to a promise as any.