Incoming Hacker QQ?

[MrDawkins]

I am not going to pretend I know anything about how SOE plans to detect hackers, but I think the hacker sites made a huge mistake letting out their hacks during beta. I think SOE was really smart not to reveal their anti-hacker systems till launch.

I for one, hope there will be a mass ban for anyone caught using these hacker programs on day 1, just so I can browse all the QQ on the hacker sites when they all cry, "OMG I got banned refund my hack subscription"

Thoughts?

[Fafnir]

You are right, SOE've been very vague on this matter on purpose.

[ChipMHazard]

Well there's no real punishment for getting banned permanently, unless you have some SC to worry about. They will probably just work harder.

[Sunrock]

I wish some country would up there penalty on coding hacks for games. 25 years to life would be good...

[MrDawkins]

Originally Posted by ChipMHazard

Well there's no real punishment to getting banned permanently, unless you have some SC to worry about. They will probably just work harder.

I heard rumors they are going to use punkbuster. Punkbuster apparently can ban hardware via hard drive serials. No idea if those can be spoofed, but it is interesting.

[Rothnang]

Unfortunately banning peoples accounts is completely irrelevant in a free to play game, since it doesn't cost 50 bucks to open another one...

[Sunrock]

Originally Posted by Rothnang

Unfortunately banning peoples accounts is completely irrelevant in a free to play game, since it doesn't cost 50 bucks to open another one...

Well any SC they have on there account and every thing they bought for SC would be lost.... So it could be 500 bucks too.

[Hamma]

They haven't said a ton about their plans to counter cheaters for very important reasons. Rest assured they have put tons of thought into it. One thing to remember is PlanetSide 2 servers will have 24/7 admins there aren't many FPS games like that.

[Crunchynut]

I would think this may be one of the main reasons for no pre-loading of the game. SOE want to keep it as close to the chest as possible until release.

It will be funny though , as while there may be no punishment in terms of it being a free game , some of these sites actually " sell " the software used to inject the hacks . that will make for plenty of QQ in itself :P

[basti]

Originally Posted by Rothnang

Unfortunately banning peoples accounts is completely irrelevant in a free to play game, since it doesn't cost 50 bucks to open another one...

Fortunatly you can also Ban Hardware IDS, Mac adresses, IP adresses, as well as do fancy stuff with Punkbuster.

Are they doing that? Who knows, im not going to try.

[ChipMHazard]

Originally Posted by MrDawkins

I heard rumors they are going to use punkbuster. Punkbuster apparently can ban hardware via hard drive serials. No idea if those can be spoofed, but it is interesting.

As far as I know they will be using PB. Sadly I don't know enough about how hardware bans work or how viable they are but I've been corrected in the past by someone telling me that's not really viable or even possible. I wish I had more knowledge about this but I guess we'll see just what measures they will be taking when the first bans start rolling out.

[Sifer2]

If they are using PB then you can expect an almost equal amount of QQ from normal players having issues with it lol. Seriously never seen a game use it, and not give someone problems.

That said I do hope what ever they use that it's efficient, and that hackers can't easily get around it by making more free accounts. Would hate to see the game brought down like this. The whole gaming industry will probably be watching to see how this goes which will determine if MMOFPS becomes a popular genre.

[Mirror]

If they have been using PB then I don't recall seeing anyone saying about having problems with it during beta.

I guess we will find out soon enough what the hackers have ready and what SOE have to combat them.

[SlotJockey]

It's a F2P, just makes me ask
" Why the hell would anyone really go out and BUY a program to specifically cheat"

[BigpermCML]

Griefers gon' grief