{"id":31288,"date":"2015-05-09T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31288"},"modified":"2017-04-15T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T17:40:17","slug":"a-rather-satisfying-way-to-punish-an-in-game-cheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/a-rather-satisfying-way-to-punish-an-in-game-cheater\/","title":{"rendered":"A rather satisfying way to punish an in-game cheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-32654414\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/a> picked up the story of a <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> player who&#8217;d been cheating on a massive scale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A character controlled by a hacker who used exploits to dominate online game <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> has been put to death in the virtual world.<\/p>\n<p>The character, called DarkSide, was stripped then forced to leap to their death from a high bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The death sentence was carried out after players gathered evidence about the trouble the hacker had caused.<\/p>\n<p>This helped the game&#8217;s security staff find the player, take over their account and kill them off.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three weeks many players of the popular multi-player game <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> have been complaining about the activities of a character called DarkSide. About four million copies of the game have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Via a series of exploits the character was able to teleport, deal massive damage, survive co-ordinated attacks by other players and dominate player-versus-player combat.<\/p>\n<p>To spur <em>Guild Wars<\/em>&#8216; creator ArenaNet to react, players gathered videos of DarkSide&#8217;s antics and posted them on <em>YouTube<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The videos helped ArenaNet&#8217;s security head Chris Cleary identify the player behind DarkSide, he said in a forum post explaining what action it had taken. Mr Cleary took over the account to carry out the punishment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqfUi9DzBuo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2015\/05\/05\/arenanet-strips-kills-deletes-and-bans-guild-wars-2-cheater\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>MassivelyOP<\/em><\/a> for both the original story and the BBC News link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News picked up the story of a Guild Wars 2 player who&#8217;d been cheating on a massive scale: A character controlled by a hacker who used exploits to dominate online game Guild Wars 2 has been put to death in the virtual world. The character, called DarkSide, was stripped then forced to leap to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[343,191,129,192],"class_list":["post-31288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-guildwars","tag-hack","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-88E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31289,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288\/revisions\/31289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}