When it comes to online games, whether it is the fire of MMORPG games, or popular FPS games, and even some mobile games, the figure of the number stealing team has never been absent. Generally speaking, the more well-known the game, the more rampant the number theft.
In order to deal with this evil, the game official has also launched a variety of security measures, from the early secret security card to the current security order, I believe that all old players and new players should be familiar with. But what many people did not expect was that they thought that with the continuous improvement of the security system, the incident of number theft should have said goodbye to players, but a few years ago there was such a game, which can be called the most tragic number theft incident in history, and almost all players have been stolen!
For a long time, World of Warcraft has been like a benchmark in the game world, but there is such a game, since its launch, has been recognized by players and the media as the successor of "World of Warcraft", it is "Guild Wars 2".
Speaking of the IP of "Guild Wars", the popularity of this game in China may not be high, and in Europe and the United States, "Guild Wars" is definitely a top work no less than "World of Warcraft", with a considerable large player base, known for its refreshing sense of blows and deep character development system, "Guild Wars 2" was the best work in the series at that time.
In order to break the system of many games on the market, Guild Wars 2 has taken a different path and gone a path that other RPG online games rarely dabble in. For example, the level mechanism, unlike other games, after the level is increased, back to the low level area can crush the monsters there, in Guild Wars 2 to the low level area, the character's level will be compressed to the upper limit of the map level. For such a design, some players may like, anyway, this is a rather creative and courageous design.
There are many more such designs in Guild Wars 2, and many of the systems and mechanics in the game are not designed with krypton gold to become stronger, but really take into account the playability of the game, so it is not surprising that this game can receive such praise.
At that time, many domestic game companies were very hungry for the agency rights of this game, and big manufacturers such as Penguin NetEase were very optimistic about the prospects of "Guild Wars 2". However, this game has a problem, that is, the buyout system, the buyout system in China is basically a hurdle, 98 yuan "StarCraft 2" players still have to hesitate for a while, not to mention the $60 "Guild Wars 2" is. In the end, the game manufacturers all thought that "Guild Wars 2" was a hot potato, and chose to retreat, only the air net rose to meet the difficulties, and decided to take advantage of this opportunity to win "Guild Wars 2".
Airnet is also a wizard, starting with selling mobile phone ringtones in the early years, and later took over hardcore works such as "World of Tanks" and gained a foothold in the game market, if everyone is interested in this company, we can talk slowly.
In May 2014, "Guild Wars 2" national uniform was launched, before the official launch, Air Net also carried out a super large-scale promotion, from the level of publicity can be said to be inexhaustible, and the performance of "Guild Wars 2" did not disappoint Air Net, with a novel setting and excellent game quality, soon set off a wave in the country, but you think things end here? Is everything going in a good direction?
Too naïve, how such a popular game has won the attention of the number thieves, the game public beta is less than a week, the game forum appeared a lot of players complained, saying that their accounts were stolen. You know, this is a buyout game, and the stolen number is basically equal to the money.
Things got worse and worse, and in the early days, there were only a few hundred players who reflected the number stealing in the forum, and then the number began to increase wildly, and at the worst time, even the forum was sprayed by players to crash, and this was just the beginning!
Some players have concluded some similarities after investigation, almost all of them have charged money in the game or bought props in the mall, huh? Is it a problem to spend money? It is really like this, some players quickly found the problem, because the mall page of "Guild Wars 2" is not a client interface, but a browser embedded in the game client with the IE kernel, and the IE kernel is not the game's own, so hackers want to crack this web page, it is effortless.
Throughout the history of the game, the only thing that can make the mall interface so outrageous should be the air network. Materials, coins, gems, and materials, coins, and gems in the stolen player's account package and in the bank will be squandered, and even one piece of clothing will not be left for the player.
How serious is this number theft?
Let's put it this way, as long as the players who were on the number on May 10, 2014 were almost completely wiped out, and some unlucky guilds were playing the copy, hundreds of people suddenly dropped the stolen number at the same time, and it is estimated that the boss was blinded. In this regard, players can only helplessly turn to the agent Air Net, and how does Air Net deal with this? It can be said that it gives full play to the domestic operators: "love to play and do not play" and the fine tradition of pretending to be dead and thin mud, in addition to telling players not to log on to bad websites, it is to prompt players to bind mobile phones, as for how to retrieve and compensate for the losses caused by stolen numbers, sorry, there is no such function. To sum up, it is up to you to work your own in the day of man's success.
Seeing this, if you players feel that the problem of this incident is the air network, in fact, there is nothing wrong, after all, as an agent, you can make the security measures of an important product of your own family like this, which really makes people speechless. However, the feud between the domestic trumpet pirates and "Guild Wars 2" has not ended, and even the number theft incident of the national uniform can only be regarded as the second battlefield.
In fact, as early as 2012, the first weekend of operation of "Guild Wars 2" in Meifu, the developer received as many as 8500 technical support requests for account theft, many foreign players said on the forum that they received verification emails for off-site IP logins, and most of them IP addresses were from China, and a small number were from Mexico and Japan. However, compared with the domestic pirates across Oceania, this part of the people is not worth mentioning.
The accounts stolen by these stolen numbers are basically the same, either the whole body props, equipment, and gold coins are quickly transferred, or the characters are reduced to advertising machines and brick moving machines. In the end, these accounts will basically be suspended for violations. In the whole process, the number thieves have no losses, but the players and operators can be unlucky, the players lose their accounts, the interest in the game is instantly zero, the operator loses the player, the game environment plummets, it can be said that these number thieves are making money in a way that corrupts the image of domestic players with an exhaustive and fishing behavior.
Two years later, "Guild Wars 2" officially landed in China in the form of an agent, and the result was also subjected to a similar large-scale number theft incident, as a rare game with a buyout fee in China, the original "Guild Wars 2" should play a positive role in the domestic game environment, but I did not expect that at the juncture of the upcoming public beta operation, there was such a large-scale number theft incident.
A game that could have become a blockbuster, after a two-pronged operation between the operator and the number pirate, successfully disappeared. In this regard, what else can we do but rebuke the number thieves? Fortunately, with the continuous improvement of the game and the continuous upgrading of the security system, similar bad number theft incidents have rarely occurred, which is really a fortunate thing for players.