TenTonHammer: Everquest Hacking

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Originally Posted by DoucLangur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never understood why that wasn't implemented by SOE except due to the "don't care" attitude that we have learned to love so much.

It's absurd for SOE to cry poverty, that the resources to address hacking are not available. Red99 does it by way of volunteer efforts. At any point, SOE could have formed a committee of active players and given them access to logs to prove who was cheating... not give them power to take any action but allow them to do the grunt work of CONFIRMING what suspicious character actions were the result of hacking. This might have happened if SOE cared about anything but getting their next transaction (i.e. expansion). But this shows why SOE are really bad business people. Because they're chasing chump change whereas making their game legit would attract far more paying customers, and thus more long term revenue than their next expansion bought by a handful of players who still care.