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Rift: Coin Lock Feature Implemented
SBFord
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As the first of (hopefully) many steps to combat players' accounts being hacked, Trion Worlds and the Rift dev team have announced that the 'coin lock' feature has been included in today's game update. With the coin lock feature implemented, if a player logs in from a significantly different location than previous log ins, the account will be placed into a locked status.
While in a Coin Locked status, users will have the following limitations:
• No access to the auction house
• No ability to SEND mail. Users can still receive and view mail as well as remove items from mail
• No ability to SELL to vendors. Users can still purchase items from vendors
• No ability to salvage, runebreak or destroy items
• No ability to trade
• Users can continue to play and gain coin and items, but cannot get rid of them.
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Kind of an interesting feature. It makes me wonder why more games haven't gone this route. We'll see how it pans out, but hopefully this puts an end to the sellers of money.
They'll have to move to botting and that's going to be easier said than done in Rift.
I agree a good step in the right direction as well, I havent had a problem with having my account hacked in any mmo I have played to date(knock on wood)but I do like to see that the game company's are trying to make sure to help you alon with your account if by chance someone does hack into it.
I do not play rift but mad prop's to you trion your doing a great job.
Thank god! A developer that doesn't act like it's in bed with the hackers and gold sellers.
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Not that I play Rift (yet), but perhaps they should have something set up that would allow people who frequently travel and wish to game a chance to be able to play normally as well? Perhaps they could do what some banks prefer which is to be notified when the account owner goes away?
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All you have to do is be able to check your email. Even if you travel just grab the code from your email and put it in. It then unlocks that ip address for play on the account. While it might be a small nouince the benefits greatly outweight the negatives.
If you travel a lot, then perhaps it's best if you invested in a laptop? If you already have one, then it will always be accessing your ISP, no matter it's location and therefore would be using the same IP range that would not trigger a lockdown. Assuming of course, that you sign up with a major wirless provider like AT&T or Verizon.
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Howver, there are different regions in each of those carriers and the IP will differ enough to cause problems. Maybe instead Rift should give the account an option ot turn off Coin Lock for this type of situation.
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If it had the option to be turned off, then then whoever compromised an account could just turn it off as well. If they have access to your game login, then they have access to your account as well, and that is generally where the option would be to disable coin lock. Minor inconvenience factors are sometimes necessary in order to protect a wide range of accounts.
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As long as you have access to your email, it shouldn't be an issue when traveling. It would work as a 2nd level of authentication for your account in those cases.
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Thats a smart idea. At the same time it also gives players who havent logged in for a while, a heads up through email if their account gets compromised. The email warns them then that someone logged their account without their knowledge.
if they try to move to botting its going to be HILLARIOUS, as i am on an open pvp server. the only thing more satisfying than killing another person's character is killing a gold seller.
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Botting wont be a huge issue seeing they will just get killed over and over. In Aion it was easy due to the way the world was designed, for the most part you could bot in peace without the other faction having free run at you all day every day. Here the zones after the initial starting zones are contested, and there are a lot of both factions jam packed into them. Finding botters would be easy, even easier once the names get out of who are the botters, they will just be hunted constantly.
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Just noticed a major flaw in this design. Should hackers continue to hack with this feature, and while they wouldn't be able to gain anything from this, they'd still be able to spend all your platinum or a substantial portion of it; filling up your inventory on expensive junk from the vendors. Its not as bad as losing everything or having your char deleted, but still quite the wrench in ones progress. Or what about planarite, would they still be able to spend yours on useless crap you didn't want, just cause!?
Speaking of having ones char deleted, can characters still be deleted under coin-locked status though?
At the height of my WoW playing I had 2 accounts, both of them have been hacked once each. The frist one, my main account, got hacked because I was dumb and followed a link outside of the WoW general forums, there was a description of a picture and when i went to look at it, it wasn't at all what the post described. I figured some dumb kid posted something stupid and 2 weeks later i log on and all my toons were naked. My fault for being dumb. I did get some of my stuff back and they gave me extra gold for the stuff they could not get back.
the second account got hacked through some chinese bastard hacking the gmail account I only used for that account. I didn't frequently look into that account and one day I did and saw Bliz had banned me because of the activities done on that account. They hacked my gmail account, re-subbed to that account, and got banned. Well I got that account back and a bunch of farmed high priced crafting materials, so I win on that one but still it is annoying. I took 2 tton from this account and transfered them to my main, iphone authenticator account. Cost me 50 bucks.
I'm really happy to see that Trion is doing something to try and stop this sort of activity from happening but what's going to happen when the bastards start hacking my email account for the unlock code?
I hate hackers
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Thank god! A developer that doesn't act like it's in bed with the hackers and gold sellers.
Yup, Blizzard can actually learn something from these guys (they won't though cause they "ARE" in bed with the hackers.
I may actually sub to this game just because of this dynamic.
I think it's a good idea. I've never had any accounts hacked, but this sounds like a pretty reasonable feature. I am wondering, also as other posters, if they have blocked character deletion. But, whatever the case, I'm happy someone cares enough to come up with a playable prevention to hacking.
Finally now all they have to do is fix my account they let get hacked(5 days and counting... 2 of which waiting on them to respond to my origional complaints and only then it was because I waited 1h15min on the phone to talk to someone) ... Not just mine but the majority of the people in my guild... The hackers in this game had my friends all too terrified to log on after so many people they knew got hacked.
What? Really? You didin't actually just say that with a straight face did you?
It's your fault that you got hacked, not Trions... I wish people would stop acting like they aren't the only ones to blame for their accounts getting hacked. It's not Trion's job to provide your PC with internet security and to provide you with the motivation to learn how to protect yourself. They do what they can from their end, and everything else is your responsibillity...
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They told me they had a glitch in their system that had a loop hole these hackers were abusing to gain easy access to accounts. Then they told me they were doing things to fix this. I had internet Security I had a very complex password that was difficult enough for me to remember. I did everything I could to prevent this from happening I have played many many many other games and not one was hacked.
All is good and dandy, except from the part where you can still delete any and all characters in the account...
Yup, read the forums now... They are doing that already!
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If people would learn to use a decent password and not visit questionable sites this would not be necessary. If you have a keylogger on your system, a quick scan will point that out before playing the game.
People who get hacked need to look in the mirror because the culprit is starring you in the face.
Trying to spread the rumor that Trion had a glitch in their systems is a bit ridiculous. Own up to the fact that it was you who screwed up and no one else. The world would certainly be a better place if people would stop pointing fingers and accept part of the blame. If you got hacked you did not take the proper precautions, own up to it instead of trying to play innocent victim.
All you "its your fault your hacked" peeps need to stop acting like they are superior and face the facts. ANYONE, i mean AAAANNNYYYOOONNNEEE can get hacked. NOONE is immune. sure some people are more or less likely to get hacked, but the fact it hackers are running sophisticated software that trys thousands of password combinations, using things like email address, facebook information, common words and phrases and who knows what else. With the amount of money a game like WoW makes for gold sellers(the primary reason to be hacked is to support this "industry") there is ample motivation to use the most up-to-date and hi-tech means to get passwords there is. Unless you live as an internet hermet, and log in ONLY to your game and dont use any other websites, then there is a possibility of getting hacked, and you never have to download a single app, or visit a questionable site. Hell, even visiting trusted sites with google chrome, i sometimes get the malware warning saying that google has found some part of the site(usually a third party ad) was transmitting or was known to transmit malware. And then there are forces beyond our control. I played warcraft since closed beta, i got hacked once...and it was during the only 2 month period i canceled my account when i left to boot camp. in 6 years, the one time i cancel i get hacked? and i dont get an email saying my account has been reactivated(under a different, probably stolen, credit card) even though my email address never changed? tin-hat or no something is fishy.
In short, stop being asses and jumping on everones backs when they get hacked. many people deserve, many don't. Many people who are hacked follow all the rules, and many people who leave themselves wide open will never get hacked. its how its works. get a life and stop being so "elitist" and thinking your all baddass cause you have this steel-wall of a security system in place, when in reality you could just as easily be hacked tomarrow.