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Blizzard Puts The Smack Down On "Hacked" Servers....
Vakktn
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Haha seems that the hacked servers got some heat from blizzard and had websites/Irc channels/emulated servers shut down. Alot of teams who were working on the hacked beta for WoW got some legal issues with Blizzard now. Some of the major players affected were Stormcraft(Best Emulated servers) had their servers hammered by a hacker (so they say) so they took them down.... Gotwow.net got shutdown for being associated with emulated servers and posting links to them.
Seems Blizzard is actually gonna keep the hackers off WoW and may even ban exploiters! Wooo! 
PS if you dont know what hacked servers im talking about just disregard this thread... some people here know what im talking about 
Taken from a post in a another website that shall remain nameless....
Hello everyone, I'm sorry to say that Blizzard has officially taken over the 40,000 user community of GotWoW?. They have forced sticker to sign over the irc network, the website, and other things. Among these others, are the fact that they are forcing legal action against McKay34 of team ViBE, and DMod who hosted the GotWoW? radio show and was part of team Khaos.
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Hahaha yes, I have heard of these . Although I am not going to play WoW i am very happy that these scum bag Impatient nerds go what they diserved
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"Stare at the Sun Im bored"
LMAO. I know they must sorry they ever hacked.
Blizzard =
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hackers =
(lawsuit)
-In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on Aug/13/08-
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Heh that's what they get. What did they think was going to happen? Blizzard were just going to ignore them?
Bunch of morons who were to impatiant to wait for Open-Beta/retail...
This is a good sign a lot of people said wow would be hacked like diablo2 and said blizz would not do anything to stop hackers. I think this proves them wrong. Blizz is taking action against hackers.
Yeah its a very good sign of things to come to those who try to hack WoW come release. I think Blizzard did it mainly cuz the servers were not an equal representation of the actual game (No quests/buggy combat...etc..) and some people were thinking that the hacked servers were what was in the actual game (Not everyone but a few... some of us know better =P).
I just hope blizzard carries this into retail when people try to exploit the game (IE dupes) cuz people WILL try to find exploits cuz thats what they do they have no life and have to be "Uber" so they have to cheat to win.... No skill bastards!
Do you know if any users have gotten lawsuits on their hands?
A good reason not to play on one of those servers is because your IP is easily exposed while connecting and playing(if I am not mistaken) and it would be easy for Blizzard to just ban you from ever playing on one of their official servers. Hah, they did get what was coming to them, finally.
That was one of the more major companies that had cracked servers, right? Does anyone know how well it was put together as far as the gameplay it had featured and stuff. Just wondering because a lot of the cracked servers I have read about have had lbery little stuff in it as far as questing instances skills and other stuff. I am just glad that Blizzard had the "man power" to bring them down.
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The Stormcraft servers had the best servers out of all the hacked servers. But still lacked in alot of areas... only one spell per race (healer classes had 2 one DD and one heal) warriors/rogues/hunters didnt get any spells/abilities but got a better starting weapon DPS...any class could weild any weapon and wear any armor (armor didnt make any diff just for looks)... no quests....just hack away at mobs...the regeneration rates sucked so bad youd have to "Sleep or Sit" after you fight a mob and take like 1-5 mins to regen to full depending on lvl...and constant player wipes were really annoying as well...
So all in all they werent really worth playing on anyways but it was SOMETHING to do while waiting for WoW.... I played on the stormcraft servers highest lvl I got was lvl 6 cuz lvlings is sooooo boring when all you can do is hack away at mobs. I mainly used it to see how different races looked and see all the different customizations for the races so I can pick which one Ill be playing in retail.
EDIT- Oh and I havent heard of any "Players" getting sued... only the people who run the servers and host websites/irc channels that support them got sued or had things taken from them. I doubt theyll do anything to the people who played them.
-In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on Aug/13/08-
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RISING DRAGOON ~AION US ONLINE LEGION for Elyos
I'm not even going to lie. I used a maphack in Diablo II. I only did it after I beat the game on each difficulty with the Barbarian an Amazon. I gave powerlevel runs and did rushes or whatever they are called.
That game really had no replay value if you played it throughout on single player like I did. I am surprised it has such a large following, to tell the truth. Even if the following is mainly hackers, it is still a following.
And your right, it did take the fun out of the game after a while. But in Diablo II I have never used a "duped" item or anything like that. People who did that stuff overstepped the boundries I set as far as cheating as that game is concerned. I just never saw map hacking as that big of a deal.
I will never cheat or hack or anyting like that on WoW. I never have on any MMO. I didn't even tweak my characters on EQ.
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If you get up one more time than you fall down, you will make it through.
Cuz people (Like me) couldnt wait for Open Beta of WoW to come out and we needed our "Fix" of WoW! Im already addicted to the game and I havent even played the real version yet. But after watching countless in game videos (Thanks JuniorX
WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 18....Just make sure your parents arent behind you looking over your shoulder
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2004-07-09
JuniorX came onto the WoW boards today and gave an explination as to why his videos are the way ther are. They run perfectly on my computer, but apparently this one kid didn't have as good of luck as most of us.
JekenMaverick, if your experiencing weird colours and extreamly choppy/ or computer lockups, then you should really get your computer checked or give me your email and i can point in the direction of finding a better computer. As for my videos being a joke, well thats your opinion. I'll just redirect you to a link: http://www.google.ca/search?q=juniorx+wow&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=)
For the rest of the mature posters who actually watched the video and did complain about the choppyness, its the software used. Fraps makes each video about 1.2 gigabytes in size and to compress them i use xvid.
The dwarf pally is not laggy but then you can't see the text. Based on the feedback i received i went back to the old method where the picture is semi choppy but you get to see the quest text.
To the original poster, im glad you like it =D
Also my next video will be the hunter =D
He really laid it on him hard for making fun of his videos. Oh anyway, if you look to the bottom, he is making a hunter for his next video. That is a must see on my list, may determine wether or not I play the class all together.
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If you get up one more time than you fall down, you will make it through.
"Seems Blizzard is actually gonna keep the hackers off WoW and may even ban exploiters!"
Lets hope blizzards actions set a positive example for the rest of the industry. Cheaters/hackers + mmrpgs = teh suk
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Played: AC1, DAoC, E&B, SWG
Tested: AC1, AC2, DAoC, Eve, Planetside, Rubies, Lineage 2, MU Online
lol LC people just dont know how Fraps works...ive tested it out on the games I have to make some vids and god it wreaks havoc on your frame rate seriously. I have an AMD Athlon 2600+ (1900 Mhz) 1GB pc3200 RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 6800 vid card and tried making a video with the hacked servers of WoW and omg it sucks the FPS bad....went from 60 FPS to 20 FPS inside and from 40 to 10-15 outside. I can vouche for Junior fraps does make the game laggy. But that guy was just a dumb ass.... Funny lines like the comp is locking up ... ROFL hahaha that guy needs a new comp or something seriously theres nothing wrong with his vids.
I really dont see why everyone bashes (US - SERVER DEVS) / WOW Fans) because we emulated a server so all the blizzard fans could at least have a small chance at playing wow.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
And we learned a lot about server development in the process. Entreating our minds other then watching TV or browsing the net to find our next victim to flame.
And many of the servers wear public, it was not like we hide them from the public.
We saved blizzard some money in bandwidth and increased there game popularity among many fans.
I remember each time we added a new feature such as taxi nodes and paths. The players would love us for letting them experience it. And they will always say. I cant wait until this game comes out.
Who would prefer our server over blizzard any how, I mean it was nice to be able to recreate a world unlike blizzards has done. One example was a PK server where no one was safe. This was not at all attending as a blizzard replacement. It may have been a fun mod of the Blizzard game so that players can see what the potential of the blizzard server has in store.
We hade no plans on developing any server once the game was released, we would be to busy playing World of Warcraft to worry about trying to emulate it.
Gowow.net was shutdown because it served as a hub for emulation of servers, every warning blizzard sent them was handled, any thing that blizzard requested was removed from the site.
Gowow.net did not even get warning of the final action, even after they removed all the content blizzard wanted they still went after them. They showed up at the door step with Layers and lawsuits and legal papers for us to sign like we wear drug lords.
Which none of the case will ever bee proven because none of us wish to fight blizzard, at first the feeling is anger toward blizzard. Over all I am not that angry at them, I just think they should of waiting until release before treating to sue us. They could have just asked us nicely and then we could at last have kept the gotwow.net guild hub that was soon to take over the whole emulation community.
What the did was one of the worst things they could of done at this state in time, if they would of just left us alone things would be easy for them.
Now they created bad press among 40,000 gotwow.net members.
They now have forced many teams to go underground, and disapair.
These teams are now going to show up when blizzard least expect them to. Or some just simple relocated there sources over seas where blizzard cant touch them. And now they are made, and will possible released a fully function underground server.
Some of the old teams have been broken up due to fear such as my team, and due to fear most people have left the seen such as me possible because I live in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />U.S. But more people remain in action with out teams then the few that wear forced to leave such as a few of my friends. The major problem is now the people in action are grouping together and creating much larger and more productive underground teams.
A few of my friend have been visited by Blizzard Lawyers and I myself feared I may get a visit two.
But I did not get such visit as of yet.
I and my team have discontinued any involvement with the Blizzards game.
http://s4.invisionfree.com/Gotwow/index.php?showtopic=35
And I really dont know if I will consider purchasing this game any more like I once did.
Thanks,
Mess with the best, Burn like the rest..
Mess with the best, Burn like the rest..
I'm not sure how to respond to Forbidden's post and not sound like a jerk...so please don't take this wrong. But no matter how you justify it, you can't just...effectively hack a game anymore and expect gaming companies to just walk on by and say "No big deal". Oka 40,000 people may or may not play in the future, that's a drop in the bucket compared to who will be playing. Even if you tell some friends what happened how will all these friends view your actions vs. Blizzards and vice versa?? What you did was a gamble...did you really think that they wouldn't sick their lawyers on you in an age of law suits rule the world. If nothing else they (Big gaming companies) are trying to send a message to the gaming community "We will not tolerate this any more". I don't see your side of this argument?? You took a chance and it came up snake eyes...now you have to deal with the consequences. I'm sure if underground servers are found out they will come after them to...copyright laws are a bitch...if you don't have permission to run an independent server to them they can find you eventually and take it down...
Edit: Besides if you notice most of the people here agree with thier action. After all the biggest complaint about Blizzards games is that hacking in anyway has ruined their other games...Blizzard has to do what they can to prove they are dealing with this.
Well I played on the hacked servers and was regestered on the forums at gotwow.net but I for one will still play WoW when it comes out. To be honest im kinda glad they shut them down (I know some servers/teams are still working on servers *stormcraft*) but it was for the best IMO. Kinda sucks that gotwow got shutdown but to be honest you guys deserved it hosting links to hacked servers and helping people actually access those servers was kinda dumb.
Even though the servers are down people have played them and had their taste of WoW now all thats left is to wait for the real thing IMO. Theres nothing the emulated servers could do now to even catch my attention. I basicly only used the servers to test out what race I was gonna choose for my rogue. Other then that the servers were crap. No one needs them anymore. Only people who want to play on the emulated servers now are people who wont even pay to play the game now cuz they are "Pissed" at blizzard. To be honest I dont think half the people who played on the servers were even gonna buy WoW in the first place.
I hope blizzard keeps up the anti-hacking. This is a nice change from other MMOs who ignore this kinda thing.
"We saved blizzard some money in bandwidth and increased there game popularity among many fans"
Increased the games popularity? Dont BS. As a WoW irc channel operator ive had to deal with countless dozens of idiots who would after playing on those servers complain how much the game sucks because "there are no quests yet" and "why are there no aggro mobs" etc etc not realizing that the emulated servers were VERY partially emulating the real deal and werent by any stretch of the imagination complete. From my point of view the only thing the emulated servers have accomplished is given the wrong idea/information about the game to many idiots out there.
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Played: AC1, DAoC, E&B, SWG
Tested: AC1, AC2, DAoC, Eve, Planetside, Rubies, Lineage 2, MU Online
I have heard the basics on how emulated servers work but don't understand how they got a hold of the codes to emulate the game. Do they hack the WoW server or how do they get the material to emulate??
In reply to Forbidden:
It appears that you may have had good intentions, and I'm certainly not here to flame you. Also, I think that Blizzard did it's fanbase a HUGE disservice by opening up Beta so early. I'm a beta tester, but even I realize how angry a lot of fans must be that Blizzard decided to just randomly give a big group of people a huge head-start on the game. By the time the game ships, some of us will have half a year's experience playing it, putting us at a HUGE advantage to the rest of you, and that just sucks, IMHO.
However, no matter how good your intentions, the fact remains that you were breaking the law. And hackers suck, in ALL circumstances, because they unbalance the game, and encourage cheating. Yeah, it's an emulator today. It's a Duper tomorrow. I have no sympathy. Sorry, but you just shouldn't have been doing it.
I think the fact that you're now threatening to "not buy WoW" just because you weren't allowed to break the law says a lot about your real intentions. None of the rest of us get to break the law either, but most of us are still going to buy the game.
In reply to LoStCaUz3: I used MapHack too. What really upset me was that Blizzard allowed rampant Duping and Bugging, yet came down hard on a few guys that just wanted to see the path to Tristam faster for Cow Games. MapHack was the LEAST of Diablo's problems, yet it was pretty much the only hack/cheat that they banned accounts over. You could run around with White Rings and Hex Charms all day long, ganking folks with your duped Windforce, and that was just fine, but they banned people over MapHack?
They care. We don't. They win.
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They care. We don't. They win.
@ JBO1
I think they "extract" the information they need from the game client, and use the emulator to create a server. One of them could be a beta tester and use the program he has downloaded to reverse engineer it.
Thats exactly what they did. Someone in the beta leaked the client the beta testers download and install on their comps. They then reversed engineered their own servers with the info from the client. Thats why the servers werent complete or not like the real game. Its not like they stole blizzards server they made their own with their own knowledge of c++. So basicly they just jerryrigged their server to play the client n what not.
@ JBO1
I think they "extract" the information they need from the game client, and use the emulator to create a server. One of them could be a beta tester and use the program he has downloaded to reverse engineer it.
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Wow that is lame, that is hacking on the worst level. There is no way they actually thought they would get away with that. They must have know the longer they were out there the better the chance they would get caught and delt with. I guess some people thought they were invincible or something. Thanks for the info...very interesting.
anyone saying that wasn't paying attention, I remember when blizz cracked down on a lot of sites offering different hacks. sure more came out later, but it seemed to die off for the most part after that.
P.S. Too bad for the hackers. I'm glad Blizz is rock hard against these guys.
Heinricho
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http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/16/
look: Stormcraft Servers were a good and cheap advertisement for Blizzard and now, where they will host the european Beta, they do now want to make this advertisement.
I think that Blizzard "allowed" these servers as long as they wanted and without Blizzard's serversoftware and help there would have never been SC servers.
Blizzard's marketing is great and this was their way to hype the game...now it is the most wanted game of 2004.