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Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by Alex3917 » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:00 PM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #5

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.

This hack is eerily reminiscent of Morpheus coming to free the minds of all the people trapped in the matrix...

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by fchollet » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:01 PM UTC

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"...

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by bsphil » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:03 PM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #5

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.

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by Ogre » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:03 PM UTC

There was a plague in WoW in 2005 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

Could be a similar sort of thing, or it could be a hack.

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by tibbon » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:09 PM UTC

If I remember right, there was a post on HN here a while ago about how there's a dot pattern embedded in all WoW screenshots, so they can identify who the user is even if they remove the character name from the screen.

If they have the account information on this, I have to wonder if they could actually sue someone (instead of just banning them) for using this hack?

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by aesopiate » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:09 PM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #5

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.

You could easily be a Night Elf's World of Earthcraft avatar on some server blade in some cooler universe than ours.

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by brador » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:14 PM UTC

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.

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by EGreg » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:15 PM UTC

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?

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by niggler » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:17 PM UTC

Ogre wrote: post #14

There was a plague in WoW in 2005 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident Could be a similar sort of thing, or it could be a hack.

Debating whether to be impressed or disappointed that this has its own wikipedia article ...

Re: Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

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Post by mtgx » Sun, Oct 07, 2012, 7:17 PM UTC

And this is why making Diablo 3 work on servers, too, was a terrible idea (among other reasons).