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Weekend DDoS & 'Ransom' Attack Shuts Down Servers - Albion Online - MMORPG.com
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Weekend DDoS & 'Ransom' Attack Shuts Down Servers - Albion Online - MMORPG.com
Albion Online News - Albion Online players hoping for some relaxing action this weekend were frustrated by a series of DDoS attacks on the game's servers and, according to devs, even included a ransom demand from the perpetrators. The attacks resulted in widespread disconnects and even server outages throughout the weekend that appear to have been solved as of today.
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Indeed, and this is just a video game.
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Devs should rename the game into "Black Screen Offline" to better reflect actual gameplay and setting.
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'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
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Meanwhile the game still lacks the proper security to prevent a DDOS attack, the number of exploits, cheats, hacks, and bots are still out of control in the game, and of course the server launch issues to begin with such as over population.
I have to say this is one of the worst launches I have seen in MMO history besides "Earth Rise" which could have had a really smooth launch had the developers have taken time to do the proper testing, even try to put in a reputable anti-cheat, and make sure that the ability to commit fraud wasn't there to begin with.
Being able to buy currency with stolen information and just hand it off to people freely is something that should have been though about during alpha / beta, and resolved before launch, although I think they are trying to take steps now to prevent it the damage is already done, and at least I had no part in the damage to the economy because I never played after launch.
Also Free Trade, in this game is clearly a no, they don't allow people to freely buy and sell items because if a person manages to sell a HP potion for 500k Silver for example, or something and god forbid that transaction connects back to a gold seller buying it or someone else who used stolen currency which is quite an easy launder method you might get your account banned still.
I just really can't blame people for disliking this company, and the DDOS attacks are likely a revenge for banned innocent customers, obviously I can't prove or deny such but people get upset enough some are willing to go the extra mile especially when its a really big guild i've seen it before.
So if someone sells a 100 silver item on the AH after posting said item for 500K silver, and the potion buyer turns out to be a goldseller, then that's not enough probable cause to label the sale Real World Trading?
What would you need as proof? A receipt?
I hope I just got shitposted and that my fellow humans are not this ridiculous.
Albion, is supposed to be a "Free Economy" / Crafting / Trade Game, by GM's enforicing limits on items which are not built into the game like Black Desert Onlline has, they are preventing the economy from playing itself out.
Two examples, in EVE you got station to station trading where you fly items from one station to another, and sometimes make items a million or more isk higher simply because its more easier and faster people will sometimes buy your item if its 1 million isk or 30k above rather than go to Jita the main trading hub.
Then there is controlling the economy, for example in certain sandbox games like Arche Age, I would sit on the market all day and buy out items then relist them at insane prices, at one point I had people paying me way over the amount of currency items were worth, one time because peopple stupidly purchased without looking at the prices, but generally I would do this with high tier crafting materials, and sometimes flip Archeum Shards under valued for higher.
Now its unlikely that a person in Albion, would sell something that is worth like 100 silver for 500k silkver, but assuming they did (This is free trade) its allowed in the game, and doesn't violate the games rules, however if a gold seller actually buys the persons items the company actually gets involved and bans users simply because the gold comes from an illegitimate source, but there is no valid proof to prove that the person who received 500k for example purchased the currency only the logs of it being listed and purchased, now this could be argued if a persons transactions only include transactions being all purchased by gold sellers every time to pay a said amount they purchased illegally, and I was reading on the Albion forums that people actually got banned for this on some topic a day or so ago that was locked.
This is the difference between any other professional game studio, is that other games wouldn't ban over asimple "Free Trade Transaction" and if trading or flipping markets is illegal for example, why doesn't SBI just impose limits on transaction aka 1 piece of wood for example going at a value of around 50 silver, can not be listed for no more than 1-2k silver not 500k.
Albion has some serious economic problems right now until they remove the whole ability to keep swapping gold to silver in gane, and hopefully prevent these DDOS attacks which is stuff that should have been worked out during beta.
Sure I could do that and there are some security measures that could be put in to reduce the frequently but if someone really wants to do it they can't be stopped. Thing is why bother ruining someones day and this ruins alot more than 1 persons day and it's just childish and stupid.
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
Although if those really work, its said to be a grey area , for network testing and you do have to agree not to use them for illegal purposes.
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My guess is that if you emailed their support staff and they didn't have great evidence to support the ban, they'd unban you. They have unbanned people in the past, there is plenty of google on it. That being said, I'm sure there are also plenty of "innocent" people who didn't read the TOS and "didn't know" they were doing something wrong and simply got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
If you gave a little silver to a friend who just got into the game isn't likely going to stand up. I'm sure they'll unban your account. Unless you just happened to have 100 friends just join the game that you gave silver to
With this response to the ban it's TOTALLY obvious that these are people without any sort of computer skills, who use what skill they have for the greater good and don't conduct themselves poorly. Soooo, yeah, color me surprised.
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