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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We've come a long way in the past 30 years

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…

You could achieve a similar sum by adding balances out of thin air to random bank accounts, which is comparable to what happened here.

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…

While I understand what you're saying, it's pretty clear what is meant is "$X worth at the price they currently sell for". When there's a story about an object in space made of gold worth 100s of trillians of dollars, nobody believes it would really sell for that much if we captured it and mined all the gold; because the value of gold would plummet based purely on it's existence.

But I agree with you that it would be put into a court document as "it cost us this much" for the full amount, vs the amount they were likely to ever be able to sell (and can't, now that everyone got it for free, so the value is $0)

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.

> 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?

This read to me like the end of a soap opera. Tune in tomorrow to find out!

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.

Some very fun indie games I've been playing this past year (lots of early access):

- Hexarchy / Rogue hex (Civ-like)

- The Last Caretaker

- Captain of Industry (factorio-like, was posted here on HN by dev awhile back)

- 9 kings

- Super Fantasy Kingdom

- Manor Lords

- Astronomics

- Heart of the Machine

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

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Streamer[1,2], formerly pro gamer[3]. “Creator” here is a clipping of “content creator”, an overtly ad-industry term that makes me a little sad(der) each time I hear it but is unfortunately universal nowadays, especially for people making videos (as we don’t really have another umbrella word for that).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHlla-bq0C_2OtEy8s2_Sg

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/kinggeorge

[3] https://liquipedia.net/rainbowsix/KingGeorge

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

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We've come a long way in the past 30 years

Yeah, 1000 variations later, the latest Doom/Quake iteration looks great.

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.

Some very fun indie games I've been playing this past year (lots of early access): - Hexarchy / Rogue hex (Civ-like) - The Last Caretaker - Captain of Industry (factorio-like, was posted here on HN by dev awhile back) - 9 kings - Super Fantasy Kingdom - Manor Lords - Astronomics - Heart of the Machine

Those games have 100x to 500x smaller budgets than the AAA-games. Yes, they often have cute ideas, but, like a blockbuster movie, 99 times out of 100 you need a solid budget to make a solid movie/game.

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

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some very fun indie games I've been playing this past year (lots of early access): - Hexarchy / Rogue hex (Civ-like) - The Last Caretaker - Captain of Industry (factorio-like, was posted here on HN by dev awhile back) - 9 kings - Super Fantasy Kingdom - Manor Lords - Astronomics - Heart of the Machine

Those games have 100x to 500x smaller budgets than the AAA-games. Yes, they often have cute ideas, but, like a blockbuster movie, 99 times out of 100 you need a solid budget to make a solid movie/game.

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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…

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