Exploits and ...bans?

For a game that will rely on a player ran economy and pvp exploits, botting, such as exp gain from glitchy mobs, duping of assets, basically any exploit or cheat that gives a player or guild an advantage will be a game killer. There's even open recruitment to "Exploiters" guilds, this could be a troll, I don't know. At the end of the day the common player is going to have to have trust that the game is fair, even if the game is fair if that trust is gone then those players will leave.

I don't know what defenses are in place and I shouldn't know. But they can't balance exploits, and balancing an economy to offset bots kills half the life skills in the game. You can build the most wonderful game with pretty graphics, amazing mechanics, and top notch systems, but cheaters will destroy it if they can, just because they can.

Two big things they could do and they should do is:
1. No time cards. These are used by exploiters/botters/cheaters.
2. Verify actual ID like what's done in Korea. This is extreme I know, but there's too much money to be made in exploiting MMOs. No matter the resources that Intripid throws at combatting this, they won't win without extreme measures.

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Noaani

Volgaris wrote: »

AirborneBerserker wrote: »

I don't care how good a game this is, I'm not giving my SSN to a gaming company. Ever.

It wouldn't be giving your SSN. It'd be verifying your identity with a third party. It's actually very common to do.

If it is so common, name an MMORPG developer that does it.

Volgaris

Falkath wrote: »

Korean level of security with ID to play doesn't work, you can just buy Korean accounts for dirt cheap, and their servers are restricted to a way smaller population than NA and EU, so in the end, it would be even easier to bypass this security measure. Even more, not every country have laws permitting this level of security, remember USA isn't the center of the world and each countries got their own set of laws.

Because locks can be picked does that mean you don't use them?

Yes every country has different laws, no one suggested otherwise. But every country that would have a profitable playerbase has identification. Identify fraud is a crime, federal crime if over state lines, international crime if over country borders. It's a pretty big deterrent.

No security is perfect. But it seems a lot of people under value the power of deterrents.

Volgaris

Noaani wrote: »

Volgaris wrote: »

AirborneBerserker wrote: »

I don't care how good a game this is, I'm not giving my SSN to a gaming company. Ever.

It wouldn't be giving your SSN. It'd be verifying your identity with a third party. It's actually very common to do.

If it is so common, name an MMORPG developer that does it.

You are special and loved

Noaani

Volgaris wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

Volgaris wrote: »

AirborneBerserker wrote: »

I don't care how good a game this is, I'm not giving my SSN to a gaming company. Ever.

It wouldn't be giving your SSN. It'd be verifying your identity with a third party. It's actually very common to do.

If it is so common, name an MMORPG developer that does it.

You are special and loved

Still avoiding the question.

I mean, you could just say you can't name one...

Volgaris

Noaani wrote: »

Volgaris wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

Volgaris wrote: »

AirborneBerserker wrote: »

I don't care how good a game this is, I'm not giving my SSN to a gaming company. Ever.

It wouldn't be giving your SSN. It'd be verifying your identity with a third party. It's actually very common to do.

If it is so common, name an MMORPG developer that does it.

You are special and loved

Still avoiding the question.

I mean, you could just say you can't name one...

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