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These SOE attacks by Anonymous can effect EvE in the near future
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Most of us know about the recent attacks and threats made by Anonymous on SoE. But this trend could soon effect EVE, CCP's major smash hit MMO,
if you didn't already know, but CCP will have a PS3 exclusive FPS MMO on the way, which will have direct interaction with EvE. Right now its unclear how this interaction will work, but it's there. Rumors say that the game will allow EvE players to hire mercenaries from the game to take over planets. But that's just rumors.
but the big thing is that this game will be tied into EvE's server structure.
this could mean major server structure issues to EvE if hackers were to do something once again to the PSN while the game was in play.
if you didn't already know, but CCP will have a PS3 exclusive FPS MMO on the way, which will have direct interaction with EvE. Right now its unclear how this interaction will work, but it's there. Rumors say that the game will allow EvE players to hire mercenaries from the game to take over planets. But that's just rumors.
but the big thing is that this game will be tied into EvE's server structure.
this could mean major server structure issues to EvE if hackers were to do something once again to the PSN while the game was in play.
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They would have done better on the 360 my bank(Chase) credit card company (American Express) and paypal will not do buisness with SoE due to their bad secuirity and buisness ethics.
Sony wasn't attacked on a whim....the hackers that did it had a reason, and that was t o show how lousy a job sony was doing at protecting their customers.
Not justifying it.
But unless CCP has such poor standards I doubt they will be a target.
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I don't even know where to start with your post.
"major smash hit" - Well, it's been around almost a decade, has a dedicated fanbase, but is still "small" compared to the mainstream MMOs.
"Rumors say that the game will allow EvE players to hire mercenaries from the game to take over planets. But that's just rumors." - Not rumours. CCP have stated that Dust mercs (PS3 players) will be hired and paid by EvE players to contest lucrative planetary installations. They've even published teaser trailers showing this.
"but the big thing is that this game will be tied into EvE's server structure." - I doubt it will be to any extent that a few hundred or even thousand people on PS3's will be able to crash the EvE cluster, but CCP have been morons before. A normal DDOS attack on the EvE cluster would be far more effective than trying to do something via PS3s or PSN.
"this could mean major server structure issues to EvE if hackers were to do something once again to the PSN while the game was in play." - Worst case scenario is every Dust merc disappears off the map.
Panic much?
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1st off SOE is a juggnaut of a company...2nd.ly i highly even doubt EVE / 1 singled out mmorpg would be in the front mind of an attack lol ..its just a fly on the wall
wow times have changed. i remember when 200k users meant you were a "smash hit." it seems not even 300k anymore is one. eve online is constantly voted #1 mmo every year by many sites, including this one. hell its still one of the few mmos left that is still p2p. defitnately not a smash hit anymore though.
Voted #1 by the dedicated fanbase which I've already mentioned. When was the last time it won an award which wasn't based on public voting?
(I am actually asking, not trying to imply it hasn't. I just haven't seen it and would be surprised if there was anything recent.)
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People will always vote for whichever game they're playing *right now*, and the more obsessed a fanboi is, the more noise he'll make to get other people to vote for that game. Even if they've never played another game and have no basis by which to judge its comparative merits.
So no, I don't believe public voting for MMOs achieves anything.
Not saying Eve is not a good game. Hell, it took 5½ years of my life before I decided to call it a day. I'm simply saying that just because CCP managed to get more people to click a random link than Blizzard did doesn't mean it's a better game. Subscription numbers alone should give an indication of how good a game is since people will tend to play them more than bad ones (you'd hope. Overall, anyway).
Eve comes in 8th at about 375k subs according to http://www.mmodata.net/ although of course I don't know where they draw their data from, and whether it counts active trials or only active paid accounts (same for other games).
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MMOs are large, complex client-server applications. If a serious hacker group wants to target an MMO, I highly doubt they will need to go through a Sony back door to do it.