Lead hacker admits to killing the game

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This is a blog post from the guy who ran the hacking site that began the SE bans, the site i was/am a big member of. i edited the site address out of the post, not to spark a war but i thought it was an interesting read.

HAXXOR said:
Well, this is officially my first entry into my blog. I’m completely new to this and this is my first time even thinking of writing my own blog.

My name is HaxXxoR. I own a few websites you’ve probably never heard of and spend a lot of time thinking of what to do do these websites to drive traffic to them. Well, I’ve decided to stop. The websites take up too much of my time and I’ve pretty much lost my creative streak.

When I first decided to start :Site edited out: I was really big into Final Fantasy Online and wanted to get an edge on the competition and open up the world of MMO Hacking to a greater audience. Final Fantasy was (and still is) full of Real Money Traders (RMT) that monopolize valuable aspects of the game. This makes it extremely hard for normal players to advance, so we decided to introduce the normal players to the tools of the RMT.

Unfortunately, I think myself and my colleagues may have killed the game. We had over 2,000 members register the first month the website was up. When we decided to delete non-posting members (leechers), we had another 1,000 register almost immediately. That looks like only 3,000 members had access to the tools we were providing… and you may say, “How would 3,000 members hurt a community that houses hundreds of thousands of players?” but what you have to consider is that each of those members possibly passed that program on to another who then passed it on to another and so on. Before long you couldn’t do anything. Everyone was hacking the game. There was finally a level playing field…. of sorts.

Square-Enix (SE) decided it was time to take action. They created a special task force (which I don’t think has done anything) and starting banning accounts. Unfortunately, SE was banning legitimate players as well as the hackers. The one thing that SE never did, that I believe would save the game, is ban the RMT.

I finally got fed up with SE, the RMT, and just the game in general and quit. I quit :Site removed:, I quit Final Fantasy Online, and I quit providing hacking tools.

So… here I am. Time to try my hand at writing.

That’s all for now, but there will be more.
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this is all very true on how many people signed up, i remember when we deleted alot of inactive non posting members, we deleted over a thousand and the next day twice that signed up. While this isnt originally where i got my stuff, it eventually became the primary source for me and many others,
it even created some coders, and this guy was and is still our leader. The sites have changed to other things now, but it was different to see how he felt about it since i have never seen him talk about why we changed direction.
 
I think this is one of the first times that i have seen a quote that was not also given a link now im not saying that a link to a blog will help us to determine the validity of this post but then atleast we can get a bit more information that a quote that could have ultimately been faked..
 
I think it may have killed the game for those who hacked, but not so much for others. Ive hacked in mmorpgs other than ffxi and after awhile it just defeats any purpose of playing.
 
I agree though. They don't do sh!t to RMTs, I reported 3 parties in Kazham. It was obvious via their level one gear. The GM shows up, looks around, gets toked and leaves. If I was a GM, I seriously would bi pass all rules and 'processes' of removing RMTs and just hit /ban "insert name here" and be done with it, say thanks to the person who reported them, maybe give them 100k for making the game better and then leave. It's pathetic that SE is so ignorant with this area of the game.
 
Helius said:
I agree though. They don't do sh!t to RMTs, I reported 3 parties in Kazham. It was obvious via their level one gear. The GM shows up, looks around, gets toked and leaves. If I was a GM, I seriously would bi pass all rules and 'processes' of removing RMTs and just hit /ban "insert name here" and be done with it, say thanks to the person who reported them, maybe give them 100k for making the game better and then leave. It's pathetic that SE is so ignorant with this area of the game.
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Then I could simply say "Hey GM this character 'JoerandomAHnub' is RMT because his gear sucks",
 
SE's been running a conspiracy for the past three years and have secretly been working hand-in-hand with the RMT groups to eventually create a one server government. The hackers are there to secretly try to stop this conspiracy from happening!
BEWARE THE UNIFIED SERVERS. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
GMs can't randomly ban someone because you're stupid ass claims they're RMT. Just because they suck and have shitty gear doesn't mean you can just ban them, there are rules. They can't go off hearsay and assumptions.

They need 100% proof. Reporting a player you think is RMT because they aren't "normal" doesn't cut it.
 
Can't undo what's already been done ....if only he could give us some names > >...
 
Perhaps GMs can't just ban the ovius RMT party, but I'd hope thay at least note the names so thay can keep tabs on them.

A party of charactures, no shell, all same equips (like a blm party) or some low level gear, shouts out RMT. Thay don't ban um for the remote posiblity that a gimp noob happens to be partyed with um.

Thay realy only ruined there own fun. and its the people who buy the gil from RMT that ruined the market. (tho I like the market where everything is cheap)
 
Mariox said:
Thay realy only ruined there own fun. and its the people who buy the gil from RMT that ruined the market. (tho I like the market where everything is cheap)
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I used to like everthing cheap til I spent all the money i had and cant find another decent way to make any lol... Now im really impartial its the same as it always was just now instead of 8 mil for an item it only costs 800k and takes about the same time to get the gil.

The real winners are people who telewhore... they were not affected nearly as bad by the deflation.
 
Dejavu said:
The real winners are people who telewhore... they were not affected nearly as bad by the deflation.
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Not really, i still remember good times when telewhore had macro shout : tele-dem/holla/mea 3k - vahzl/altep/yhoat 5k" and in some 3/4 hours (being lucky to get many run or being the only whm around) one could get around 80/100k
Today you are lucky if someone really rushy is available to pay 5k for a tele in extraordinary cases or in the few cases 3k, while the general trend is to offer 1k or just saying {Reward} and at the trade u risk to see anything -.- also ppl offering 500 (this ones are regularly dropped... for 500 save around 300 and get a fucking chicken cheap bastard)

Also telewhoring is no more so winning nowadays.. expecially when you keep having your "customer" stolen in fractions of seconds.. by a whm called something like "xfgsedsfst".... tele-bots... as far as it seems
 
Methinks the hacker gives himself way too much credit. He certainly hasn't killed the game, and it's laughable to say S-E hasn't done anything about RMT.
 
i rated you up for this...

Halifirien said:
Methinks the hacker gives himself way too much credit. He certainly hasn't killed the game, and it's laughable to say S-E hasn't done anything about RMT.
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but i'd do it all over again for...
"The beginning of sophistication for any gamer is the realization that there are lots of good games that didn't do well in the marketplace. Blaster Master's failure is like a zen koan." -- Gamasutra
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cause Blaster Master fuckin rocked! \m/>^_^<\m/
 
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