Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Chaos Ensues 773
Vanguard(DC) writes "There was a major hacking incident last night on the servers of Shadowbane, a newly released MMORPG by UbiSoft/Wolfpack. The attackers wreaked havoc on at least one game server, with apparent god-like capabilities in-game. There's already an official statement on the forums - 'Ubi Soft and Wolfpack Studios are now working with law enforcement, and we promise all of you that these individuals will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.'" There's a little more information via a post on the SBCatacombs messageboard - apparently the carnage (including many less powerful players getting killed) involved "..teleporting people all over the world, teleporting hostile guards into the safe-holds, bringing in hordes of special event monsters, and teleporting everyone to a city at the bottom of the sea."
I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:5, Funny)
Just roll the game back 24 hours and play on.
I'm sorry, but that title needs a farkism: (Score:5, Funny)
Hahaha. (Score:5, Funny)
"Now featuring WRATH OF GOD mode, where pissed off GM's show you what it would REALLY be like if god cared. Experience plagues, meteors, and lightning from a clear sky. Divine retribution like you've never seen it before! Just 20 dallars a month."
Heh.
Haha! (Score:3, Funny)
Fear the machines!
I can see the police blotter for the individuals responsible:
"Teens arrested for acting like God in computer game"
Next On Ebay (Score:1, Funny)
Obligitory Simpsons Reference (Score:5, Funny)
Homer: [fearfully] Marge? Kids? Everything's going to be just fine.
No go upstairs, and pack your bags...we're going to start a new
life...under the sea.
[calypso music starts]
[Homer dances with fish as Lisa plays a seahorse saxophone,
Marge a squid harp, and Bart the xylophone clams]
Homer: [eats a dancing fish, sings]
Under the sea, under the sea,
[eats a couple more fish]
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea!
[eats a line of seahorses, grabs an escaping one]
[eats a live crab as though it were a shrimp]
[eats a pair of dancing fish, then a snail who tries to escape]
[stands there with fish skeletons floating about]
Marge: Homer, that's your solution to everything: to move under the sea.
It's not going to happen!
Homer: Not with _that_ attitude!
jus' like da matrix (Score:1, Funny)
graspee
Re:game world != real world... (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft blame Torvalds
chaos? (Score:-1, Funny)
UPDATE! (Score:1, Funny)
SBCatacombs [catacombs.com] struck by massive DDoS attack. Shadowy band of crackers known only as "/." suspected. Law enforcement has been called in.
Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
that's terrible (Score:5, Funny)
Now please excuse me while I begin laughing hysterically.
Re:I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:5, Funny)
PLAYER: You see, my elven warrior had just obtained expert skill level with his scimitar, which allowed him to slay the vicious vampire of the valley, after which he stole this awesome magic amulet that lets him see through walls...
HACKER: aaarrrrrgggghhhh!!! no more! no more!
Alternate Headline (Score:5, Funny)
Motives... (Score:4, Funny)
A: The hacker has a dislike for the company because he/she/it works for a competitor, and knows that this kind of an embarassment will nearly wipe-out this game.
B: The hacker has a dislike for the company because he/she/it was fired or otherwise feels wronged by the company, and knows that this kind of an embarassment will nearly wipe-out this game.
C: The hacker is immature and just wanted to play god in the game, because that would allow him/her/it to "win" by beating people who had worked hard to attain high status in the game.
No matter which situation turns out to be true, the hacker(s) need to be delivered to law enforcement to be shown that you just don't do this to other people's systems even if you have the technical ability to do so.
I used to MUD... (Score:2, Funny)
its not a hack, its a 'feature' (Score:5, Funny)
"High level characters summoned the Cthulu mythos through misintrepreting portions of the Necronomicon. Accordingly, some of the space/time contiunuum in the game world was temporarily disrupted."
"If you see a glowing green orb, please be aware that this is the Locknar and should not be approached. Unpredictable results may occur."
"Unfortunately, in Shadowbane a character named "Sauron" acquired a randomly generated treasure named "The One Ring". We are investigating the probability factor of the random treasure generator and will patch this in release 1.01."
"Our improbability drive is malfunctioning. Please stand by."
Honestly, I'd be more willing to buy this game if I realised they had a sense of humour.
Re:unfortunately this is par for the course (Score:2, Funny)
A horrible company employing horrible people who should be subjected to cruise missle attacks, or worse.
Bottom left of that first link: (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe that should read 'slashdot users'
Re:I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:5, Funny)
It sounds more like a movie. Any of these guys called Bruce?
or Neo?
Re:game world != real world... (Score:5, Funny)
Jack Nicholson and Calvin Klein, notwithstanding...
Re:Motives... (Score:5, Funny)
(I pick "D").
Kids these days... (Score:5, Funny)
I almost died laughing when I, years later, saw The Wrath of Khan.
Plenty of hacked moby ships too.
Re:game world != real world... (Score:4, Funny)
Not if it takes more then one click to do it
Re:I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Games are businesses too. (Score:3, Funny)
Yah, but this is like hacking into Chucky Cheese and making the big mouse head start singing the Barney Song.
I mean come on, so freaking what!!!
Isn't there an old story in the Jargon File some place (or some other Sacred Text) about some players who hacked into a text based MUD many years back and went flying around in the Star Ship Enterprise?
Re:I'm sorry, but that title needs a farkism: (Score:2, Funny)
"Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Jailarity Ensues"
Lalalalalalalaaaa *fingers in my ears* (Score:3, Funny)
Answering your point though, if they did hack into a bank then yes, there should be repercussions, but they didn't. Spitting in the street doesn't lead to homicide, it's not a long slippery slope that needs to be nipped in the bud. Just apply some perspective.
Re:Slashdot in Action (Score:3, Funny)
You're talking about the SCO conference calls.
If I had 'God' powers, I'd teleport your post there...or worse.
Non-AI God also equals fun! (Score:5, Funny)
After all, it is a fantasy game, why couldn't this have happened within the normal confines of the game?
"What, how the hell did I get at the bottom of the ocean? Oh, great. Now I'm in the middle of my worst enemy's keep...This is not my beautiful castle?! This is not my beautiful wench?! How did I get here?"
Well, fun to me, at least. I don't take fantasy computer games that serious
Re:unfortunately this is par for the course (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Motives... (Score:3, Funny)
D: Teleporting people to the bottom of an ocean is funny.
Re:unfortunately this is par for the course (Score:4, Funny)
Another player weighs in. (Score:5, Funny)
Back in the BBS/MUD days... (Score:5, Funny)
I used to help run a BBS run on an Atari ST (can you believe it?), and the system was so obscure, that we developed a "DOS simulator" for those who tried to hack our BBS and its (limited) games. We faked things like "dir" and "erase" and even "edlin." It was a multiline, so if the hacker tried to "IM" himself (back then software called it "teleport"), he got through, but if he tried it to others, it went to /dev/null. When people did a "who," they got the job :
Hacker: Port 3: [Thinks he's hacking the BBS, tell his mommy!]
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What about the judge and jury? (Score:5, Funny)
What would a jury think? That people who spent 500 hours building up an imaginary character need to be compensated for their loss? I can just see some uber-gamer breaking down and crying on the stand because their elf now has to start from level 50 when it took him 3 straight months of playing 5 hours a day to get to level 55. (or whatever the terminology is) More than that, how are you going to get a jury of this person's peers to try them in court? How do you interview a jury like that? OK, what is your favorite magic spell? Have you ever spent more that 12 hours straight playing a game? Is your BMI over 40? Picard or Shatner?
Re:I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AGREED (Score:1, Funny)
Re:law? (Score:2, Funny)
Coming at You Live... (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, isn't this the way that video games were MEANT to be played?
Ahh.. Reminds me of the good old days (Score:1, Funny)
Oh.. Never played DIKU MUD?
Re:I just can't get mad about this one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about the judge and jury? JANEWAY (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, the full question starts with "Who would be on top?"
Jury of peers (Score:5, Funny)
Cross-Examining Lawyer: And, if I may ask, where did you get those gold pieces in the first place...?
Conan the Barbarian: Well, I killed this dragon and...
Cross-Examining Lawyer: Murderer!! You killed, pillaged and raped to get this money and now you have the stomach of accusing the defendant, and honor student in the other end of the kingdom...
Conan the Barbarian: But it was just a dragon...
Cross-Examining Lawyer: Racist!! There we have it, honored members of the jury, Mr Barbarian here is not only a thief and a murderer, he is also a racist. That nullifies any and all of his allegations. You must aquit.
Re:Another sniviling player weighs in. (Score:3, Funny)
Some of us have girlfriends and wives.
Re:Jury of peers (Score:4, Funny)
Cross-Examining Lawyer: It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a Conan the Barbarian and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests.
-S
Re:Another sniviling player weighs in. (Score:2, Funny)
Some of us have girlfriends and wives.
There's (at least) two ways to read that:
--Groucho Marx
But that brings up a hitch: Wouldn't it be slave trade to sell that avatar - marriage material - on eBay?
Proof we're not in the Matrix (Score:2, Funny)