Hacking Fail

[Worse Doughnut]

Just saw this on the DN's, and i felt it was kind of note worthy enough to bring up.

One Friday when the 3 and 15 month member bonus items went live there was an exploit that allowed hackers to access the shop for about five minutes before we fixed it. In that very small window 138 cheaters grabbed the Chaos Shaper class or some of the other member rewards without having supported the game like the rest of you guys.

We catch and ban hackers, cheaters and scammers every day to try and keep the game as safe and fun as possible for the rest of our real players, and sometimes it takes us a long time to gather enough evidence to ban someone but when it's something like THIS, where we can very clearly and eaisly see that they have something cheated to get... well, they're just asking for it.

So those 138 people had their stolen items taken from them.

They also all ALL of their other items taken from them, as well as all of their gold.

The next time they log in they will see that they have No Class & the Default Sword equipped, and they will find a note in the backpack letting them know that stealing is wrong and that there are consequences to their actions.

The moral of all this? Dont Hack, as evidenced by what happened to the accounts mentioned above, its clearly not worth it....

[Isa]

You would have thought people would have learnt there lesson from the Chronomancer hacking failure of '10...
Some people never learn.

[Worse Doughnut]

Well true, but the people who hacked for Chronomancer didn't lose all their items, they only lost all their badges. Plus, they could get their badges back if they paid the amount that the calender cost, these guys are screwed permanently.

[Isa]

Well true, but the people who hacked for Chronomancer didn't lose all their items, they only lost all their badges. Plus, they could get their badges back if they paid the amount that the calender cost, these guys are screwed permanently.

Even still from that its obvious that AE can tell who bought stuff and they aren't gonna like it if you hacking for example they set up a shop with +100 enhancements (fake just marked your account) and all the people that bought it got banned.
These guys can be clever when they want to be.

[UnityDestroyer]

if you hacking

Seriously...

[Ice Slayer]

Very true...

[theiloc]

Well true, but the people who hacked for Chronomancer didn't lose all their items, they only lost all their badges. Plus, they could get their badges back if they paid the amount that the calender cost, these guys are screwed permanently.

Even still from that its obvious that AE can tell who bought stuff and they aren't gonna like it if you hacking for example they set up a shop with +100 enhancements (fake just marked your account) and all the people that bought it got banned.
These guys can be clever when they want to be.

They didnt setup a shop, there was an exploit then let you get your item to level 100 basically a packet but a spy leaked a method to AE for personal gain

[Isa]

A spy?
Lol...

[DeathKnight]

Not in th' literal sense. These "spies" go t' th' hackin' sites an' report them t' AE. I did 't a wee times, myself, but nay rewards, so I stopped. Good riddance t' them. Waste o' me $60 an' a week.

[Ultima The God]

The AQWorlds staff is crazy. Don't they know that when they take their hard earned items the people quit? That's why only like 15,000-30,000 play everyday. Because all their hard earned crap is token or its to hard to earn or its member crap or to many acs. P.S. They should lower their price range for membership/ACs I can get like better runescape membership. Runescape has a lot more stuff than aqworlds does. Even though AQWorlds has been only running for like 3 years, Runescape had much more stuff than aqworlds did when it was running for 3 years. Note to AQWorlds Staff:Make your maps much bigger. Your maps are just embarrassing you. Oh and try to make the map all in one... I dont like running through stupid little arrows to get to the next area.