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Reanim 10/03/08 1:40:01 AM
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What do you do when you don't want to manage your game with GM's and real people. You design a free to play game and put a bloatware security program on the front end that hopefully will provide some security. Of course this rarely works well as F2P games have shown. Now warhammer will be breaking new ground and placing punkbuster on your PC. Good old punkbuster that caused tons of issues in battlefield and other FPS games. Did it actually stop the hacks and cheats? Nope. I am assuming this move is an attempt on mythics part to reduce manpower and increase profits. Guess time will tell if this is a good idea. Reanim ( Waits for the fanboi defense of punkbuster... this should be good)
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ZoMBiEXxX 10/03/08 1:45:08 AM
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Joined: 11/10/06 |
When they announced that they were going to use Punkbuster awhile ago I ranted about it to anyone who would listen. About how bad it is and how it doesn't stop anything at all on the games thats its currently in use on. It's rediculous that EA Mythic would decided to use a service that just doesn't work. I think it's a bad move and we will see a big botting/hacking following that will come from the fps games to the mmo games. |
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Netspook 10/03/08 1:45:59 AM
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Punkbuster in WAR is old news. Iirc, it was announced in the same interview (on this site) where they announced the removal of those cities and classes. |
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AmazingAvery 10/03/08 1:46:21 AM
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Age of Conan Correspondent
Joined: 1/16/07
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. (Jan 22nd) |
In my opinion it's the same mentality as not having official forums (because the staff can't cope apparently) but I see now it's for the forthcoming influx of "Punkbuster screwed my system up" threads are the real reason they don't have them. |
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Playing: Age of Conan, Crysis Wars, Fallout 3, Supreme Commander. |
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Reanim 10/03/08 1:50:22 AM
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Joined: 1/04/06 |
That may be so... But did you know its being reported as having been pushed this patch? If you note the title "punkbuster Inc". Incoming... |
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Netspook 10/03/08 1:53:28 AM
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Joined: 3/01/07 |
Originally posted by Reanim
Yes, I did note the title. I'm just saying it was expected. |
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Chill_Factor 10/03/08 1:54:43 AM
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Joined: 6/01/08
Verbal Assassin |
More cry threads from you please. Avery, don't make me come over to the AoC forums buddy. |
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Bigdavo 10/03/08 1:57:18 AM
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Hard Core Member
Joined: 1/21/06
''Life is what you make of it, not what others make of yours.'' |
Originally posted by Reanim
I'm no fanboi of punkbuster (glad to see your looking for trouble, great work) but I will disagree with you. I've played CoD 4 (which uses Punkbuster) since it released and I must say I was exceptionally pleased with the distinct lack of hackers, having come from CSS prior. I'm not sure if this is entirely attributable to Punkbuster, but it must be doing something right. So I kinda think your full of shit, hell I hated Punkbuster too when I first had to get it, it was a pain in the ass to install and seems somewhat primitive in nature, but now I just update it every couple of months and off I go. So whatever, it really isn't a big deal. |
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miagisan 10/03/08 1:59:20 AM
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Joined: 7/28/06 |
http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=153
How does it work? PunkBuster in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning simply looks for anything suspicious that might be indicative of a player attempting to cheat or use exploits. It reports this information to Customer Support, who will then decide after a full investigation whether or not someone is breaking the rules. The most important thing to know is that it cannot do anything automatically and is only there to help our Customer Support create a more enjoyable game environment. It is also important to note that Punkbuster is just one of the tools in our arsenal to use against cheaters. We will continue to do what we do with DAoC and not just rely on Punkbuster. Our plan is that most people will never even know it's there!
So umm..i don't get the problem...it finds something suspicious, reports this to a csr, who will investigate it....
ummm...am i missing something? it doesnt do the banning or the work, just reports it. |
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Reanim 10/03/08 2:01:59 AM
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