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Wired News: Hackers Put 'Bane' in Shadowbane
« on: June 2, 2003 09:22 am CDT »
http://http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59034,00.html
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The horror, as horror so often does, began slowly  almost imperceptibly.

Late Tuesday evening, little things suddenly started to go very wrong in the virtual world of Shadowbane, a popular online multiplayer game.

Some players noticed that their money and weapons had suddenly vanished. A few whispered that tonight the monsters somehow seemed slightly bigger and meaner.

And then all hell broke loose.

Shadowbane had been hacked by several of its players. But unlike standard game hacks, where players gift themselves with super strength, health or wealth, these hackers managed to completely alter the rules of Shadowbane -- turning a suddenly wrathful game loose on its players.

"At first, players started speculating that there was a really bad bug in the game code," player Tim Wheating said. "Then we realized that somehow an insane god had taken control of our world and was out to kill us all."

In a statement posted on the Shadowbane website shortly after the hack, Wolfpack Studios and Ubi Soft Entertainment (the developers of Shadowbane) acknowledged that a "serious attack" had occurred and assured players the companies were "working with law enforcement and we promise all of you that these individuals will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

The population of an entire Shadowbane town was forcibly moved to the bottom of the sea, where they drowned. City guards turned feral and attacked town residents. Mobs of never-before-seen superpowerful creatures, seemingly spontaneously spawned from the ether, began to prowl the streets unchecked, killing characters in the most painful way possible.

Not that the game was ever intended to be a happy, cuddly experience. Whacking other players around in one of Shadowbane's many free-for-all zones is one of the main attractions of the game.

But it has a "Newbie Island," where inexperienced players can hone their gaming skills in a protected atmosphere. After making their way off the island, players join guilds, and battle the members of other guilds.

The members of guilds build cities that serve as their personal strongholds. Neutral cities exist also, virtual Switzerlands, where no one is supposed to attack anyone.

But on Tuesday there were no neutral zones -- nowhere to run -- and newbies became the prime targets.

Experienced players looked on in horror as new players were slowly and gleefully dismembered by ax-wielding ogres. Others just laughed and looted the characters' bodies after the ogres were done.

"If you go to what is left of the town of Khar, you will see my grave," one Shadowbane survivor wrote in an e-mail. "I never knew dying could be so hilarious -- I had a great time."

Mike Gontelli, a late arrival to the game that evening, said that when he arrived in Shadowbane "there were hundreds of tombstones. New players were being beaten and tortured. Newbie blood was flowing like a river. I knew it wasn't real, but it was oddly terrifying."

He added, "I've been playing online games for a few years. There are always some hackers hanging around who have figured out how to give themselves special powers. But I have never, ever seen or heard of a game going this deeply berserk."

Clint Hayashi of Ubi Soft Entertainment said on Thursday that "we quickly and easily identified the individuals who disrupted the game" and also said that users' personal information was not accessed.

The game was "rolled back" -- everything and every player reverted to their status shortly before the attacks.

"Hallelujah, I was dead and now I'm not," said player Brian Buttoloer. "This is way better than real life. Let the games begin  again."


Ozzy, did you do this  :roll:
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« Reply #1 on: June 2, 2003 11:07 am CDT »
I don't see how he could.
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« Reply #2 on: June 2, 2003 11:17 am CDT »
It was a joke...  :roll:

But, that article is pretty funny.
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« Reply #3 on: June 2, 2003 12:14 pm CDT »
Shh... Don't say stuff like that about me on the internet..

They are after me!

Lets just say..

Oh hell.. I had a malarkey load of fun doing it.
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« Reply #4 on: June 2, 2003 02:10 pm CDT »
funny? a lil... i think they over did the carnage a lil though

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« Reply #5 on: June 2, 2003 02:22 pm CDT »
I pulled a fire alarm when I was in kindergarten and blamed it on an older kid.  :lol:
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« Reply #6 on: June 2, 2003 02:35 pm CDT »
i mooned my principle

and when she told my mom... she just laughed at her.. i was in kindergarten...

it must have been from the simpsons or some other cartoon... yeah mind control by cartoons

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« Reply #7 on: June 2, 2003 05:32 pm CDT »
I urinated on a teacher after she didn't let me go to the bathroom. I told her I had to go, she said no, so I went to a corner and did it and she pulled my sholder and I spun around and she got hit by the crossfire. So sad but the class thought it was funny. I got back into school the next day cause the school says she should have let me go if it was a emergency.
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« Reply #8 on: June 2, 2003 06:07 pm CDT »
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« Reply #9 on: June 2, 2003 07:27 pm CDT »
nurosaki, you couldn't hold it to the end of the class or something or to the bell? guess not if you just went to the corner but what made you to a corner, why not just walk out of class since you knew you were going to get in trouble anyway. guess if i had to go really really really bad that thought would have crossed my mind but i most likely wouldn't of did it. what is that word below your name? looks like banzored but i'm not sure.
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« Reply #10 on: June 2, 2003 07:33 pm CDT »
I remember in 1st grade a little girl accidentally went in her seat because the teacher made her wait.

I failed one six weeks last year because I was kicked out of a class.  I was kicked out because I really had to puke, but the teacher was holding the entire class behind after 3:00.  I ran out to the bathroom and the teacher shut the door, and I couldnt come back for the rest of the semester.
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« Reply #11 on: June 2, 2003 08:00 pm CDT »
what kind of teacher does that to you. what state you live in darwin? school system can be a hassle sometimes. i would have took it to the principle at least to see if i could get back in class or did you care? i'm sure you cared, did try anything to get back in? semester is really nothing if you do right in the remaining ones.

that article made a nice story. was it real? i'm thinking it wasn't but if it was i praise the hacker who took his time to redesign the game. terrible thing he did but great skill.
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« Reply #12 on: June 2, 2003 08:07 pm CDT »
Its not a public school.  They can do stuff like that.  Plus, he's an ass**** teacher.  I could have just gone to the dean and told him, and gotten back in the class, but really I didnt care enough to.
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« Reply #13 on: June 2, 2003 10:53 pm CDT »
I would have told the dean to just piss him off.
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« Reply #14 on: June 3, 2003 12:03 am CDT »
lol my dad's teach in 7th grade or so wouldnt let him go and he warned his teach that hed piss on the desk the teacher still didnt let him so he whipped it out and pretty much obliterated the teachers work
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