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It's interesting to comprehend the amount of lives a hack like this will positively affect. How many will pick up a book, or go for a walk, now that they no longer have their go-to fix of virtual reality. How many WOW addicts will have time to think "never again" and follow through. Equivalent to all the cigarettes in the world vanishing for a few hours? Possibly. And equally as effective I say.
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That's what makes EVE so much more interesting to me. There's only one server. The monthly fee can be earned in-game. The economy is tied to actual dollars because it's so reliable. There have been plenty of universe-spanning conflicts that impact the entire game with genuine political drama, and the dev team steps back to let it unfold with minimal intervention.
Also a lot of EVE is actually played outside the game... think about traders and crafters and their excel spreadsheets or websites put together for trade networks. And of course the spies! Their activities went so far as cutting an important fleet commanders electricity so his thousand-of-real-world-dollars titan could be shot down. EVE is fascinating!
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Debating whether to be impressed or disappointed that this has its own wikipedia article ...
It certainly raises some questions for the "notability" police.
Here's a video posted by one the script kiddies responsible for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoM_sOC7jMA&feature=playe... Nothing too impressive to this "hack"...
No doubt this is related to this problem :http://kotaku.com/5933454/blizzard-network-breached-change-y...
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Also a lot of EVE is actually played outside the game... think about traders and crafters and their excel spreadsheets or websites put together for trade networks. And of course the spies! Their activities went so far as cutting an important fleet commanders electricity so his thousand-of-real-world-dollars titan could be shot down. EVE is fascinating!
They cut his real world electricity?
Admin consoles: the soft underbelly of billion dollar software operations since... Seriously, though: you almost certainly have one if you run a software business. Client side SSH certificates are your friend. If you're not able to do that, because it is really annoying, separate it from the main app and lock it down as much as possible. (Separate authentication from the main site/app's authentication scheme. Lock do…
[1] http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/29/blizzard-announces-l...
[2] http://kotaku.com/5933454/blizzard-network-breached-change-y...
It looks like there were some videos posted from the point of view of the hackers. Doesn't Blizzard put watermarks in each of the clients? They can track it to the licenses which people bought, and probably to the people themselves, no?
I think that there's something kind of fascinating and romantic about the idea that an entire world and the ongoing social affairs of thousands of people can fit on a single server blade in the middle of nowhere.
That's what makes EVE so much more interesting to me. There's only one server. The monthly fee can be earned in-game. The economy is tied to actual dollars because it's so reliable. There have been plenty of universe-spanning conflicts that impact the entire game with genuine political drama, and the dev team steps back to let it unfold with minimal intervention.
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That's what makes EVE so much more interesting to me. There's only one server. The monthly fee can be earned in-game. The economy is tied to actual dollars because it's so reliable. There have been plenty of universe-spanning conflicts that impact the entire game with genuine political drama, and the dev team steps back to let it unfold with minimal intervention.
Also a lot of EVE is actually played outside the game... think about traders and crafters and their excel spreadsheets or websites put together for trade networks. And of course the spies! Their activities went so far as cutting an important fleet commanders electricity so his thousand-of-real-world-dollars titan could be shot down. EVE is fascinating!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also a lot of EVE is actually played outside the game... think about traders and crafters and their excel spreadsheets or websites put together for trade networks. And of course the spies! Their activities went so far as cutting an important fleet commanders electricity so his thousand-of-real-world-dollars titan could be shot down. EVE is fascinating!
They cut his real world electricity?