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All my game modes are locked by this pos hacker for SaveTitanfall *, and i've tried resetting my xbox console and nothings helped .........................................
Congratulations on the Titanfall hackers! Way to stick it to the man! I love Titanfall and everything. BUT one thing I don’t like is hackers RUINING my fkn game! I can’t help but to think there was no OTHER way to get your message across without fkn the common person. But here we are.
Now you are as much as a * as EA for doing this dumb azz stunt. Congratulations! In all honesty Titanfall can burn to the fkn ground for all I care. Just because of the tasteless tact you chose to do. Har har. Laugh it all the way up.
It’s just pathetic on both ends. Pathetic EA a billion dollar company get siderailed by neckbeards in a basement. And pathetic the neckbeards can’t attack the infrastructure but the outlier affecting common folk. Such an absurd moment on both sides.
Their target is EA and Respawn not Apex players. I personally don't blame them. Problem here is Respawn who are too lazy to fix problems and not only in TF, but also in Apex.
Yes, it affects all of us, but it's last hope for them, as they already tried everything. Respawn knows about problem and does nothing.
After few hours Respawn will fix this problem, but TF will stay unplayable.
@ColdHoursNot supporting this, but if it is really a statement, and not some operation hiding more massive hack (for all we know they could have pushed bad updates on our clients and games to have trojan horses, keyloggers, botnets and so on, in addition to steal our data -let's be honest, a guy on twitter won't tell you the truth about this, he probably has a PR team on his head at the time), they could not do better than affecting players, because it's from us that comes the money.
If it was different, well, it would be reaching less.
Now, we have an accurate consciousness of security and so on.
And I say that being interested in white hat hacking, so not endorsing anything black hat.
I just hope they move now instead of "troubleshooting" our connections (granted, they have to do it, but constant complains + they have telemetry about pings and so on could have proven to them servers were overloaded. Also it was not difficult to buy a cloudflare protection for DDOS and so on. But I guess "recolors take times". I thought it took 3 seconds on photoshop or so -completely new models, ok, but these, they can generate them even randomly, so they have been fooling with us for some time)
@DoYaSeeMe wrote:
"IF hackers would've actually breached the data servers, they would've done a lot more damage and demanded a huge ransom for restoring the game or maybe even save Titanfall themselves (yea right)."
>That's merely your guess, not fact.
It all depend on their goal and strategies
Smart move is to not make your goals obvious. Escalation/lateral movement are powerful ways to gain access.
"Before giving suggestions, you should get more informations. Respawn is not in the servers business and it's not EA providing game hosting for Apex. They use one of the biggest companies that specialize in game hosting, Multiplay. I'm pretty sure those guys know way more things about security than the entire playerbase in this forum."
>Well, they proved it. Also, since you seem pretty knowledgeable in the field, and that myself am interested, I guess that over 2M players, there are a few others.
Most obviously, there were, since they messed up with the servers
"As for the connection troubleshooting, most of the problems that players have come from their connection and from the network, which is normal, because clients have the least amount of experience with hardware & network stuff, while ISPs will always opt out for the most cost effective solutions and always prioritize more vital services."
Gamers are geeks. Geeks know their way around hardware and the things that are vital for them. When I call my ISP, I already have checklisted myself whatever level 1 garbage question the ISP staff could ask me. Because I don't need them for lowly educated guesses.
"There's no such thing as a 3 second change. Every addition or modification of a feature usually has a few versions, goes through a review phase, a new game build has to be made to include it which then goes to mandatory testing, bug fixing, fine tuning, legal check, marketing, etc. It's a pretty tedious process actually and , when it comes to cosmetics, the network/game logic engineers aren't usually involved, so don't panic, new skins don't take time and resources off of bug fixing."
That's some PR thing that was repeated in some discourses by a Respawn employee. That's utterly false when it concerns coloring. In any game engine, that's the thing you can change in a few clicks. What is there to test regarding colors? they pretty deliberately make some skins not viewable well so some will buy them as a distorted form of pay to win so it's not as they would care.
"I don't get this "they are fooling us" whining. If some people are so dumb dumb that they buy things they don't like, it's totally their problem. If you want more elaborated skins, just don't buy anything that doesn't convince you. Low sales are the best indicators for them to up their game, whining &buying will have the opposite effect."Did I say I did buy anything that would not convince me?
Or any skin, actually?
I would gladly pay for anything usefull in game, and I'm not talking about pay to win feats, just things like a good ranked mode with an hard as a rock anti cheat, good matchmaking really based on level and not on engagement*, good shooting range, solo pvp and pvE mode, possibility to make LaN or private servers and so on.
*(because "our goal is that you have fun" by Rick Lesauceur is a poorly worded way to say their goal is to make us spend time there, as the engagement component of SBMM proves). Because that is not for them to estimate that by staying more, I would enjoy better. Actually, people stay more because they are frustrated by bad conditions they wish to turn against.
But what they neglect is that whatever satisfaction I would have, as a player, I would play anyway. By wanting to maximise engagement for casual players, they will frustrate most people that play a lot and would keep on playing anyway.
Also, ethics and design: you design a game, you might want people to enjoy, instead of just engage, since this is shown they are not similar.
I fully understand the need and incentive to make money, but a game like Apex is easier to do than a game with a solo mode and missions and story with consistency to check and so on... "All they have to do" (not that this is easy) is to work on game balance, performance, security and new ideas to improve gameplay, for people to feel safe and enjoy.
Results, while people might enjoy, as I do, I won't deny it, they certainly don't feel safe, and while they may enjoy, some big unadressed problems spoil this (cheaters, bad/overload servers, all problems at each update/events).
That's 2 areas out of 4 where they fail big time. And some would add game balance (while I think they do pretty much fine and usually take both data and community ideas into account). As for ideas/content, they are quite good, too.
So, they 'd have only to get right on these for people naturally keep engaged and playing and staying there, where no other company indulge in security hence losing shares (see warzone). Because their new content like the great arenas are spoiled with cheaters and bad servers. How is it worth creating new things for them to be unplayable?
The problem being not that I am critical because I hate Respawn and am a whiny kid. I am critical because I am an engaged player, that I am pretty vocal about defending Respawn myself when I feel the argument are stupid, but in the end, I shall admit that myself can't tell everything is perfect, and that some critical thinking is needed, not to burn them to hell, but to show them they should act on some problems.
Because change start with admitting these problems. Not being unmovable deaf bricks.
So "before giving suggestions, you should get more informations", and not presume people are so much less uneducated or thinkful than you are.
I am not emotional, I am rational and I have seen more than one company mess up with their player base, as well as many promises lost in the winds of the gaming industry, vaporwares, disapointment and lost hopes. That's because I know that that I know we have to be fair to Respawn, but not blind to their shortcomings, with as much respect that I have for them as they provided up with such a great game.
