Well, it seems official. Don't know if this is old, or new news, but Broomop is onto PSU. I've also seen a LOT of videos on YouTube detailing ways to hack the game... seems it's gotten easier. I thought ST would have fixed this by now...
Yeah, I've seen him do the chat hack (via a recording, he's not on the 360 servers.) I think he got banned after that, thanks to someone from Pso-world. Ichi I think it was.
I'd imagine some of the more serious stuff is actually on a private server of some kind, as getting past Gameguard on your own PC, and cracking into some servers that are most likely stored on a different continent, and that have far, far, far greater security is a little different.
All the stuff like the infinite Meseta is probably just showing the number as edited, as he probably only has 12 or so meseta, he's just changed the number that's showing up on his screen, as the servers at Sega will probably flag and log any paranormal activity. For example, if I logged on, suddenly had 4305934059348503 meseta from nowhere, and no trade logs or anything had gone down, I'm pretty sure someone at sega would notice.
Because everything's stored serverside, it's harder to hack the game. Unless you're like... god-level hacking.
They've banned his original account, and I think they've blacklisted his CC number, the only way he's still on is people lending him their accounts from what I've heard, and when they keep getting banned, and have to keep getting new CCs, I'm pretty sure they'll get annoyed. Sure, some of the stuff he can do is pretty cool, but it'd be nice if all this didn't break into the mainstream, I don't want FSODing and Noling etc to make a return. >_>
Yeah. But this is exactly the reason I haven't gone online with PSO GC, and I dumped the PC version almost straight away. I want to go online with PSU, but I don't want to be playing on some massively hacked place where everything I want is there for me to take. I want to work for my items, weapons, meseta etc. And one of the videos was a true hack, because it was taken by a video camera in front of the screen, so i'd guess that makes it a definite hack.
Hell, back on the PC version I was a level 3 with P-Wear: Nelgal and a DBs Saber. Tht was from teaming up with people whom I thought were normal players, until they hacked every goddamn thing. Makes me so damn mad that they want to wreck other peoples fun like that. And multi-equip was rife as well. Ugh, damned hackers.
But I never kept any of that stuff for long. Being FSODed every time I played had quite an impact on it.
PSU is a game made for people to play games with other people. Why these stupid-ass hackers can't just leave it alone is beyond me. Surely there is something better they could be doing. Like perhaps spitting over motorway bridges, or breaking phone box windows.
I doubt that's 'leet' enough.
Thankfully, the Xbox 360 version should prove a lot harder to hack. I think the 360 checks for anything unusual when it starts up, when it signs in, and when it boots the game. It's why the Halo 2 hack is seen less and less these days.
And as long as many people oppose this kind of behaviour on PSU, SoA and SoE should take notice, and act accordingly.
Keyword, should.
360 at this point is more than likely unhackable. Not due to anything that Sega has done but because the only successful mods for it only allow to play copies of games.
PSU for the PC is another story. Gameguard isn't a very good detection system. I'm sure the one PSU uses will be bypassed just like all the other games I know of that uses it. Once that happens, it will be wide open to a memory editor. If we're lucky there wont be anything too useful that can be successfully changed, like health.
But chances are, that it will be able to edit everything and just save it over the existing file saved server side on Sega's servers.
The problem with this of course is the stuff is harder to hack, but once you crack it, you have infinite acess to not only your things, but other things stored on the server. Namely other players and items.
Basically then, the stronger its defences, the bigger the rewards are when you get through, to put it bluntly.
Oh please ST, at least try to fix any problems that come up! We're all pooed if they don't!
I'd imagine if any malignant hacking occured (ie noling) then SEGA would get off their asses and pull out the lawyers. Damage of virtual property or something. I dunno. >_>
Yeah, that would hold up in a Japanese court where internet propietary is big business due to the culture being so tech heavy. But chances are it wouldn't hold up here in the US where the guy is located. Mainly due to what he is damaging not being "real". This is unless of course Sega can show a loss of business due to it. And seeing how PSU is going strong I doubt they could show that.