TenTonHammer: Everquest Hacking - Page 2

Titanuk · #11 10-06-2011, 02:28 AM

Sean "Rogean" Norton

Aenor · #12 10-06-2011, 02:33 AM

I actually re-sub'd two accounts for Fippy and immediately decided not to play once I heard mage pets were tanking raid mobs. I play war as my main, and if my role is taken away by a mage pet, I have no desire to play.

I'm so glad I didn't waste time on these servers. I was with the guild on Sleeper that unlocked Velious and took down the first Tormax and Yelinak. I had a blast, but I was aware of warp hacking on that server as well. Just nothing on the scale of having my entire raid trained by a warp hacker.

When I read the quote from the SOE producer, "oh it's worth a conversation with my team," it just goes to show they really don't care enough about the issue. What happened with the account suspensions on P99 is exactly what I hoped would happen. When I heard about anti-hack measures, I wanted to know if they would actually work.

Obviously now that P99 has taken action against MQ, the MQ developers, some of whom will be playing on P99 Red, will be working to get around P99's detection methods. It will always be a constant battle, just as with EQ live where every patch modifies the client to disable the current MQ build, just for a new build to be released hours later.

The difference is will. The live producer is told, "your game is completely broken and unrewarding for legit players," and his response is, "oh really, I guess we'll have a conversation about that." Meanwhile the P99 team has shown they actually care. Great job Rogean, Nilbog et al. I'm going to enjoy playing on Red 99, knowing the developers of the game I choose to invest my time in actually care about rewarding legit play.