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Warhammer Online developer diary on combat with hackers

— massively.com — Hackers, as everyone knows, were scheduled to be the mirror class to Choppas... wait, no, that's not... right. We're not talking about one of the classes of Warhammer Online , we're talking about that scourge of the paying and fair-playing populace ... (more) Warhammer Online developer diary on combat with hackers

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Mythic Entertainment

Electronic Arts

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WAR Dev Diary on Combating Hackers
Grimnir's Grudge — http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=973 Aw giggity. Ok, really there isn't a whole lot of information given here, I can sum up in bullet points. We acknowledge that people hack our game. We acknowledge a third-party program that is used to hack our game. We infiltrate groups known for hacking our game to discover these hacks and destroy them. We collect a ton of data to make sure ...

Warhammer Online developer diary on combat with hackers
Massively — ... , we're talking about that scourge of the paying and fair-playing populace of every MMO. The most recent developer diary on the game's official site is with John Cox, development manager, discussing some of the ways and means that allows ...

WAR on Hackers
Blue's News — A new developer diary on the Warhammer Herald describes Mythic Entertainment's efforts at curtailing hacking (or what purists would call "cracking") in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning , specifically talking about the war on third-party cheating programs. The diary, penned by WAR Development Manager John Cox, concludes with this: "To sum up, I hope this gives some insight into how we think about and approach hacking in Warhammer Online, and answers the burning question why ‘Ard ta Feed is so huge. I apologize that we can’t be more candid when situations arise, or in this ...