The idea of requiring a text message is smart. Buying new phones is highly costly and would absolutely discourage mass hacking. Plus nearly everyone in the world has some form of cell phone with text messaging capabilities, so this would not be nearly a huge issue of discouraging players.
If anything advertising a game that's F2P, with anti-cheat, and a solid base for preventing mass hacking for new accounts; could drive sales WAY up. People like the idea of having a semi-hacker free game.
Originally Posted by Pyreal
SOE could also simply figure out what vulnerability the hack is exploiting in order to find the users of that hack in order to cull them. They wouldn't even have to close the vulnerability, just monitor it.
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Because no one has ever thought of that
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Moderating a function does nothing if the programmer has modified the program to prevent their analysis capabilities.
2012-07-31, 12:46 AM
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