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Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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Re: Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2005008887234048091 Here's the word on the internet streets: - THE FIRST GROUP of individuals exploited a Rainbow 6 Siege service allowing them ban players, modify inventory, etc. These individuals did not touch user data (unsure if they even could). They gifted roughly $339,960,000,000,000 worth of in-game currency to players. Ubisoft will perform a roll back to undo the damages. T…

> Will the SECOND GROUP leak the source code? Is the SECOND GROUP telling the truth? Did the SECOND GROUP lie and have access to Ubisoft code this whole time? Was it MongoBleed? Will the FIRST GROUP get pinned for this? Who is this mysterious THIRD GROUP? Is this group related to any of the other groups?

Find out in the next episode of... Tales from Cyberspace!

Re: Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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A 9 year old random FPS game. WTF happened to non-shooter games? I am so bored of these FPS variations.

Maybe check out game awards finalists

I checked them out. I guess I just miss a time when Falcon 3.0 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Island sold really well.

Re: Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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It's a shame this game has to pander to eSports fanatics rendering it into a completely hollowed out soulless experience. From the early days of Operation Chimera to selling half of your stake and IPs to Tencent, Ubisoft has seen it all.

Ubisoft kept making garbage and sacrificed their IP’s for the sake of keeping the company alive…

It was doomed.

Re: Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2005008887234048091 Here's the word on the internet streets: - THE FIRST GROUP of individuals exploited a Rainbow 6 Siege service allowing them ban players, modify inventory, etc. These individuals did not touch user data (unsure if they even could). They gifted roughly $339,960,000,000,000 worth of in-game currency to players. Ubisoft will perform a roll back to undo the damages. T…

This has the air of a parody spy caper where the various people who have broken in keep tripping over each other.

The source leak is really interesting, though. We don't often get to see game source, and it often has surprises in.

Re: Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2005008887234048091 Here's the word on the internet streets: - THE FIRST GROUP of individuals exploited a Rainbow 6 Siege service allowing them ban players, modify inventory, etc. These individuals did not touch user data (unsure if they even could). They gifted roughly $339,960,000,000,000 worth of in-game currency to players. Ubisoft will perform a roll back to undo the damages. T…

Nothing highlights how pointless e-sports items are more than a real dollar value for a player base of all of them. The entire global GDP is as an order of magnitude roughly $100 trillion. So this $340 trillion figure is 3.4 times planetary total economic output - meaning the theoretical value of Rainbow Six cosmetics exceeds what the entire human civilisation produces in a year. Multiple times over. You'd be valuing pixelated gun attachments higher than annual agricultural output across all nations, all manufacturing, all services, everything.

I bet it appears unchallenged at some point in a court (or insurance) document though.

Re: Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

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post #11

A 9 year old random FPS game. WTF happened to non-shooter games? I am so bored of these FPS variations.

We're currently in a golden age of Indie games catering to hyper specific niches. Ignore all AAA games and you'll find absolute gems.
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