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Black Desert Community in an Uproar Over Shadow Arena Hackers & False Bans - MMORPG.com
SBFord
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Black Desert Community in an Uproar Over Shadow Arena Hackers & False Bans - MMORPG.comUpdated with comments from MMORPG.com users
Keep in mind that these comments are from the perspectives of writers currently playing BDO and who are invested in the game's community.
Just letting you know they tried to correct it by a second band wave hot on the heels of the first mess...and banned a whole bunch of new people who shouldn’t have been while leaving several of the incorrectly banned accounts still in the lurch.
The paid employees aren’t engaging with the community beyond the two “official” updates and instead volunteer moderators and ambassadors are starting to snipe at the player base in forum threads.
They also seem to be deliberately (or not) suggesting people don’t have the right to any follow up if they are banned because of the ToS. While the forums aren’t the place to debate consumer laws it seems to be a deliberate misdirection to tell players “too bad we can do what we want”
There are STILL innocent players banned, we have reached out to Kakao numerous times with tickets and they are not responding and when they do it's just copy paste trash and no one is actually reviewing the tickets. The small amount of players they "unbanned" and apologized for, isn't -everyone- reaching out to media outlets is all that we have left trying to get help. We have tried to find someone to go over the xigncode logs and they refuse. I sincerely, truly, appreciate that you've taken the time to write this article and try to get a comment from Kakao. But please know that they did not unabn all innocent players affected. It seems like xigncode is wrongfully flagging programs ( as it is very well known, and well documented to do ) and there are even people reporting on the forums this morning that their game closed and when they relaunched it, it's now saying they are banned. They have implemented some kind of automated process and it is failing the player base.
ORIGINAL STORY - Pearl Abyss and the Black Desert Online EU/NA team are under fire for issues in the recently-added Shadow Arena battle royale mode. According to players, there are a number of hacks present in Shadow Arena, a fact backed up by action taken by devs that led to a large number of accounts being banned. Players assert that well-known hackers are making trial accounts in order to cheat and are being paid for their effort by those looking for high win counts and in-game currency.
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For me there is always going to be some fallout over tackling hacking, some people will get their accounts banned that were innocent. But they have to act, it is just a matter of how many mistakes they make.
We know that hackers always kick up a fuss about bans; it was never them, what they were doing was not really cheating, everybody does it.
So when you see "I Am Innocent" threads I always take them with a large pinch of salt...and the way they are often written means you are going to get that salt anyway.
So how do you know when the complaints are genuine? You don't there's the rub.
I was very happy about game and i thought everything bad people say about this game was lie but after i got ban i saw whole picture. They just lied and lied, for example if you can remember first 2 months of game where you couldnt get support ticket solved, my ticket was resolved in 31 day, but 1 guy from guild i remember he waited over 60 days. They market sniping, all sea content bugged, just disaster...
285 is not so much and yes, maybe some are false positive but it's really not a big mess here compared to some others games...
childs crying in forum "it's not me, it's not me" but the reality is here: cheat and hack pollute parts of this game and action must be done!
But this game mode is so overrun with hackers. The rank one player in Shadow Arena right now currently ingame is a hacker that has been doing this for 48 hours. https://imgur.com/a/lyAZNC6
Any name with a barcode is a hacker FYI. Look at there rankings. These same hackers were here last week before the whole ban wave fiasco and now are back. They have been completely silent about this.
If you have never tried Black Desert do yourself a favor and stay away from this game and Pearl Abyss/Kakao. Also MMORPG these same cheats used in Shadow Arena are also the same for the regular game mode. Just people are alot more lowkey about using them around of people.
This. Why bother with Eastern trash? Not that our Western trash is any better(WoW, yikes)
The horse has bolted, don't worry about closing that stable door, lol
"Paying for advantage" has become the norm these days, nobody raises an eyebrow over that anymore.
If it was a pure sub game, there'd just be a very brisk RMT "black market", and all the hacking shenanigans would continue unabated...
They are beta testing some crap data pull they got out of xigncode and have zero idea what they are doing with it. One guy just had his second account unbanned, and his main got banned today instead.
Lost the banroulette. Anyone reading this, don't start playing BDO.
F2P and OWPVP in MMOs don't mix at all.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, that's the thing. You don't really know who is innocent or not. This is when their team needs to take a step back and reassess the situation and start back from square 1, but all they're doing right now is stacking issues on issues by continuing to use a "100% accurate tool" to ban players in the game. They are making the issue more complex and difficult to resolve, when they should just be undoing the banwave like it never happened, fixing their "tool" instead of manually reviewing each account (which they claimed they would have /s), and reapplying once they believe it's time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/b7d4uo/new_banwave_today/
https://community.blackdesertonline.com/index.php?threads/banwave-update-on-follow-up-measures.428601/
Stop changing subject I m glad when they banned hackers but they banned innocent ppl they do nothing about that just deleting posts and trying to cover it up .Today is new wave of bans and new ppl banned for nothing.
Both get the premium benefits. You then use the other account's labor purely to get money to buy more premiums and your main account is free to use their money however you desire.
Yeah. That is true. I wouldn't make a big deal if I spent little to no time on this issue, but I spent over $5k in this game and invested so many sleepless nights. Don't get me wrong, the game is fun, but when they do this to you after all that time and money invested into your account. It's very unethical and demoralizing to the point we are dehumanized and looked at as cash cattle.
Though I assume the way cheaters are doing this is basically just having a hack that imports skills which are not checked server side to verify if a user picked them up or not thus cheaters can do this.
Or memory hack to detect where Items are, these type of hacks especially memory hack could go unchecked, and be denifed of being a hack especially if not a public hack open so devs can make anti-cheat.
Also using Packet Sniffing hacks like we have seen in FortNite, and PUBG can go undetected for a very long time because its 100% Undetectable by software based anti-cheats unless it knows what to look for, for example re-routing your connectiong through a raspberry pi that sniffs packets, as well as your DNS.
I want them cheates gone still its annoying as a consumer to have to put up with cheaters they should risk Real Life fines, community service, even Hosue arrest for a month or something on a first offense to teach people not to do this crap, perhaps with future Real Life Augmented games.
https://community.blackdesertonline.com/index.php?attachments/hacker2cens-jpg.154493/