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Totally unsecured databse
amber-r
Member Posts: 323
The mods are deleting every time someone posts about this on the official site but it's pretty widely known across the web.
It seems that it's incredibly easy to hack into the XIV main database, I would be amazed if this didn't end up with a rollback.
[mod edit - please don't post links, details, pics, or videos with instructions on how to exploit]
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Currently playing - FF14ARR
Previous games - SWG, World of Warcraft, ShadowBane, Warhammer, Age of Conan, Darkfall, Planetside Asheron's Call, Everquest, Everquest 2, Too many.
guess everyone will be 50 at least, but will still have nothing to do at 50.
Seriously old news, most of us have known about this for weeks. The concern trolling is unnecessary and gratuitous.
Remember the whole 365 billion taken out of the economy? This was part of that.
Mtibbs and I even referenced these kind of exploits in the multitude of threads complaining about gil confiscations. Threads that you (the OP) were involved in.
Glad to see the air below the sand is so fresh.
So they really can't do any better because the foundation for the game's construction is garbage.
This makes me feel a little better. I got "cheated" because the game is garbage because the developers are incompetent.
Why do you still play knowing all this?
edit: Is it just a matter of time, then, until someone finds a more-major exploit and as a result SE takes your level 90 gear or de-levels you? When you are mad and want to express your angry experiences here, then, who will you make fun of as you've done some of us? Yourself?
I think it's gotten to the point where people are just tired of hearing about the same thing from you.
Right, the good ole JUST WAIT - THE WORLD WILL BLOW UP....next time argument. *yawn*
I play because it's a good game. It's fun and well worth the money.
im subbed and enjoying the game and will continue to do so for some time to come.
however, that doesn't stop me from wanting to know wth is going on with SE and their incompetence. i want to know /because/ i care, not because i hate or troll.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
People that read the official forums or Reddit. There have been several screenshots of this happening, just got to these forums significantly later.
It's bad enough that they decided to store character data client side. (Tip for MMO dev's: that a no-no) But to then have that data not go through any form of validation whatsoever when being sent server side?! Is there a word in any language whatsover to adequately describe the level of FAIL being displayed here?!
I'll be sure to warn any friends of mine to stay far, far away from this game.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Yea this is new info to me. Its funny how people are trolling this thread by saying its a troll thread, kinda ironic. Fanboys will go to any length to protect their MMO.
I didnt read the exact details of this hack but if its simple sql injection, someone is probably getting fired.
Judging from SE's past every time someone took advantage of an exploit in such a blatant way, after a while there were massive bannings. Hell they were banning even people that were in close proximitiy to them just to be sure.
Usually I just get a good laugh when the people that hacked to get their things started bitching about how "unfairly" they were banned.
This is why I have not subbed yet, I am waiting for SE to prove to me they give rats arse and will do something about the issues they are having and will actually fix them.
The top few that come to mind are the massive botting, the AOE lag issues and this, which has been known for awhile now.
Like Alamareth says the game is fun but unlike Alamareth I will not put my head in the sand and make excuses or be an apologist for SE because I ultimately want them to take us seriously and improve the game.
I have always felt the best way to encourage companies to do the right thing is with your wallet or lack of along with making sure people are aware of what is what so they can make an informed and accurate decision before purchasing a game.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Same here I subbed because I couldn't find a game that is better .
Please if anyone knows of a better game that I haven't played let me know so I can start playing that .
I don't think they give a rats arse about anything , the gil spamming should be easy fix but they haven't done anything about chat spam .
The AOE lag is a joke , I have to run around like a turkey to avoid AOE that might occur in the next 2 seconds .Seems to be server side too .
A new game will come out soon and this game will be bai bai thanks for the fun , next time learn how to program.
Well, unless of course it isn't really true, then you might not hear much about it.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
You can always count on someone saying "This is old news, and stop telling people".
you can pretty much buy cheat software for this game that allows you to get lvl 50 on all jobs and even edit what gear you want . Pretty crazy stuff that they allowed client to be so much in control .
Wonder if they will fix it or are they just poor programmers ?
Crafting leve exploit has been proven to exist but there is no proof yet that it isn't limited by your leve allowences amount, so far from s ure that you would be able all crafts to lv50 in 1 day using it.
As for the "edit what gear you want", what proof do you have for it? It is certainly not enough to assume it is true just because someone advertises to sell it.
Kind of reminds me of one of Terry Pratchet's 'sayings'
a lie is twice around the world before the truth has got its boots on.. or something like that.