2010-11-10, 04:25 AM
A business simply cannot respond that fast, especially when you have over 100 IPs of different servers. They likely had a meeting to discuss the exploit and figure out how to handle the damage from there. A business cannot operate with one person having a killswitch on everything. Meetings take time. Also, you have to figure that if the 4:00 PM time is accurate, the developers were near the end of their work day and they're likely working furiously on Big Bang. Notice how they rolled last month's patch and this month's together into one patch? I don't believe that was done on accident. The fewer patches they have to do, the more their dev team can work on Big Bang.
Tell me, what could they have done to fix this better than they are? I'm not asking this to defend them. I'm asking this for you to defend yourself. Obviously you know better than they do. Remember:
- There is not a single person unaffected by this hack
- Prices have skyrocketed by 300% in less than a day
- Meso generation is happening at billions per minute
I don't see how it's possible to only punish those involved. This is simply the faster method to get the game back up and running, and that's what players ultimately want.
Also, doing a rollback in and of itself is nothing. First they have to find where the glitch is happening. They also need to contact Korean dev teams so that they can patch the hack so it doesn't grow to other versions. Then they need to patch their own servers to fix the glitch from happening. This takes a lot longer than you think it does.
Tell me, what could they have done to fix this better than they are? I'm not asking this to defend them. I'm asking this for you to defend yourself. Obviously you know better than they do. Remember:
- There is not a single person unaffected by this hack
- Prices have skyrocketed by 300% in less than a day
- Meso generation is happening at billions per minute
I don't see how it's possible to only punish those involved. This is simply the faster method to get the game back up and running, and that's what players ultimately want.
Also, doing a rollback in and of itself is nothing. First they have to find where the glitch is happening. They also need to contact Korean dev teams so that they can patch the hack so it doesn't grow to other versions. Then they need to patch their own servers to fix the glitch from happening. This takes a lot longer than you think it does.