Curse

Faer · Jan 12, 2008, 10:45 AM // 10:45

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

STORM ANET HQ~!

I'd love to. Honestly, you'd think by now that the people who keep letting these things happen (post-to-pre glitches, the outpost exploits, the controlled client crashing, and the forgettingtoaddabossuntilayearlater, just to name a few examples) would have been replaced by now.

But I guess everyone is just too focused on cranking GW2 out as fast as they can to worry about the security holes and openly exploitable features of GW1's coding. Throw a band-aid on it, and hope nobody peels it off. Great policy.

Yeah, good luck with GW2 guys... Really.

Oukanna · Jan 12, 2008, 11:00 AM // 11:00

I always miss exploits, maybe they dont exist and its Anet trying to look like they are doing something xDDDD

Well i hope someone up there figures out soon, if you dont look after your followers in gw, then they wont go to gw2 because they will have found another game by then.

NeHoMaR · Jan 12, 2008, 11:01 AM // 11:01

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Originally Posted by Faer

Yeah, good luck with GW2 guys... Really.

I hope they make an encrypted dat file this time, and encrypted communications between client/server too, and encrypted data in RAM. That way nobody will know a thing and hacking will be impossible, even botting will be impossible.

jackie · Jan 12, 2008, 11:15 AM // 11:15

Sweet, GW starts to look like good old internet explorer.

NeHoMaR · Jan 12, 2008, 11:48 AM // 11:48

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Originally Posted by jackie

Sweet, GW starts to look like good old internet explorer.

IE6 for the smart, IE7 for the fool. And I love your avatar (not more than Firefox)

SirJackassIII · Jan 12, 2008, 11:48 AM // 11:48

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Originally Posted by NeHoMaR

I hope they make an encrypted dat file this time, and encrypted communications between client/server too, and encrypted data in RAM. That way nobody will know a thing and hacking will be impossible, even botting will be impossible.

I hope they don't. Encryption/Decription on so many levels is going to greatly increase the server load, causing higher ping and severe lag.

makosi · Jan 12, 2008, 12:26 PM // 12:26

So how, exactly, did people get post items in to pre this time? Surely previous patches have closed off any links to the Guild Hall?

lilDeath · Jan 12, 2008, 12:28 PM // 12:28

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Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

QFT and for historical accuracy. You called it Upier. You called it.

Also QFT, because it is just that, TRUTH. Assume the pitchfork and torch position. STORM ANET HQ~!

lol... classic!
This made me smile, best 2 posts yet today!

pablo24 · Jan 12, 2008, 12:28 PM // 12:28

Ahh, nice! They actually fixed this exploit I had reported 3 months ago

quickmonty · Jan 12, 2008, 12:32 PM // 12:32

Guild Wars will now be officially known as:

Bug Wars
Exploit Wars
Ban Wars

Take your pick.

Roo Ella · Jan 12, 2008, 12:47 PM // 12:47

The simple solution I see to handle this is Change the way Pre in Profs works
to the same system as in Factions and NF where you can go to GH ect
from teh starting areas.
I know that would mess with the Titles and such that people have worked so hard on in Pre.
They did add the char bags and Charr Salvage Kits just go all the way and open it all up and be done with it.

legacyofkain85 · Jan 12, 2008, 01:06 PM // 13:06

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Originally Posted by NeHoMaR

I hope they make an encrypted dat file this time, and encrypted communications between client/server too, and encrypted data in RAM. That way nobody will know a thing and hacking will be impossible, even botting will be impossible.

hacking is never impossible

stretchs · Jan 12, 2008, 01:46 PM // 13:46

Are you all really that naive to think that any game out there has no bugs? Every and I repeat EVERY game has bugs, every game will have some botard exploiting something that will need to get patched. Millions of people work on windows, guess what, some botard breaks it and finds bugs, same thing happens with every game that gets any kind of game play. The reason you see it a bit more now, people have less new things to do, so they are getting into things they shouldnt. Idle minds are the devil's workshop

Coridan · Jan 12, 2008, 02:09 PM // 14:09

why don't they just open pre up to the guild hall...i mean come on...numerous exploits involving taking stuff into pre...or just add in a storage in pre...problem solved. There is no way to rebalance pre...so the only way to make it "balanced" is to give everyone access to everything in game

Ctb · Jan 12, 2008, 02:26 PM // 14:26

Dear posters who have no idea what you're talking about (which is most of you).

I am actually a real life flesh and blood coder. I work with scripting languages, primarily building website, extranet, and intranet tools. Most of my code is limited to 500 lines or less, though some of the things I build reach into the thousands.

This is magnitudes smaller than the code that likely exists in Guild Wars. I do not have to build input that accept multiple direction commands. I do not have to build hit detection. I do not have to build constant streams of back and forth data that operates in near-to-real-time.

I have bugs in my code. I am still able to find high demand for my skills basically anywhere I go because I'm almost always one of the most experienced candidates with the best portfolio.

If you ever find a coder who is capable of programming anything that is objectively perfect, please let me know. Such a godlike being would be worth billions to any company on the planet with the ability to pay.

Also, most "Hello World!" textbook examples are not even entirely properly implemented, and they're usually only five or six lines max, so STFU about the "zomg the game still has bugs fire the devs for not meeting my entirely ridiculous expecations" crap when clearly your entire technical knowledge is limited to your ability to nuke a Hot Pocket.

tyvm

Signed,

Annoyed person who actually lives outside of a video game 5 days a week