General Discussion - PoE reddit hits a new low - Forum

" b15h09 wrote: " Etherfire wrote: To all the people going on about QoL shit and stuff, I play on a toaster and stuff like rainy hideouts and docks/shipyard tilesets often make me DC. I play with no sound and likely have missed good drops. However, never even once did I ever think about using any third party program or something to 'enhance' my experience, especially since GGG don't want that. This is their game and we should be respect that fact more. Some guy in that page complained about how unfair it was that he got killed by magnus offscreen becuase he forgot to turn on his HUD. I mean really? For real? Cool. You're everyones favorite consumer. PoE isn't a gift. It's a product, and it's made GGG profitable as near as I can tell. Free. Pretty close to a gift for a ton of people, but yeah product and all that stuff. I could go into how ggg is more connected to the community than most companies and try to provide the best they can and blah blah blah everything everyone knows and doesn't need to be told. It doesn't matter anyways. Cheating an online game sucks for everyone. If it doesn't hurt now, it will at some point. Last edited by taylorfest#6775 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:26:47 PM	Posted by taylorfest#6775 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:24:01 PM Quote this Post
Yep it is crap for sure. People seem to be behind GGG and say they support them in what ever they do against the cheaters (spit) but will action drive people from the game and will there be enough people left after GGG takes action against the cheaters (spit) to still make POE a viable business? Forum signature	Posted by DrWood#0528 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:30:14 PM Quote this Post
" Tom7i wrote: " Goatsebusters wrote: inb4 half the community gets banned and GGG goes bankrupt as a result I think that the widespread word of the company mercilessly banning cheaters without regard for it's player numbers would bring more new customers in than the action itself would throw out. Sadly, that won't stop cheating and hacking, only slow it down; but it would still send a clear message of the company's interests. As for that post where someone mentioned an anti-hack feature being added in the last patch and to which the OP in that post even replied with something like "the war has begun" - i'm sure that this is also the reason for that post in the first place. They got a slap in the face so they decided to slap back by bragging with their "army" of users. I just hope that GGG have the option of tracking those people down and we'll hopefully see a similar post about a massive banwave like PoE Garena did a while back. GGG has shitty coders. I presume that once the hack goes closed source and works around the hack detection (which appears to be questionable in terms of privacy to begin with since it dumps a list ALL PROCESSES), GGG won't be able to reverse engineer the hack, and we'll see something similar to Runescape where only the most flagrant of botters get banned. Then again, that's how it currently is today. Honestly, if GGG just made the game server side, there wouldn't be hacking or desync. Easier said than done, but that's the only realistic solution. Either that or GGG could hire a hack/bot writer. The original Hillockfarms RIP IHavSixLinkSearingTouch (73 dual incinerate templar) 8/11/2013 RIP TwoShavronnesOneFlask 9/11/2014 6L count: 10 GGG is tracking your processes, better stop downloading that My Little Pony porn :^) Last edited by Goatsebusters#2033 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:35:36 PM	Posted by Goatsebusters#2033 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:30:48 PM Quote this Post
" taylorfest wrote: Free. Pretty close to a gift for a ton of people, but yeah product and all that stuff. I could go into how ggg is more connected to the community than most companies and try to provide the best they can and blah blah blah everything everyone knows and doesn't need to be told. It doesn't matter anyways. Cheating an online game sucks for everyone. If it doesn't hurt now, it will at some point. Free, but still a revenue model. Pretty righteous one at that. Totally agree, cheating sucks. But I also agree, poorly optimized particle effects suck. And I also agree that off-white/light brown is a shitty color for something as important currency in a sea of white trash. Don't use the program, and won't, but man... those features! No. Calm down. Learn to enjoy losing.	Posted by b15h09#7812 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:31:51 PM Quote this Post
Wow I honestly kinda want to try this out not for the map hack or any other cheats that I would never use but what I'm reading you disable the rain.... When ever I walk in to doms place that rain lowers my fps to all most nothing or even peoples hideouts with rain make me dc on the spot	Posted by lolbam#6898 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:32:55 PM Quote this Post
I don't cheat. I don't use third party tools that I haven't personally verified. I am extremely upset that PoE client is now examining my computer and sending data back to the server. I am uninstalling.	Posted by againwetryagain#1739 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:38:26 PM Quote this Post
" againwetryagain wrote: I don't cheat. I don't use third party tools that I haven't personally verified. I am extremely upset that PoE client is now examining my computer and sending data back to the server. I am uninstalling. What's this HentaiDownloader.exe doing running on your computer? The original Hillockfarms RIP IHavSixLinkSearingTouch (73 dual incinerate templar) 8/11/2013 RIP TwoShavronnesOneFlask 9/11/2014 6L count: 10 GGG is tracking your processes, better stop downloading that My Little Pony porn :^)	Posted by Goatsebusters#2033 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:39:55 PM Quote this Post
" againwetryagain wrote: I don't cheat. I don't use third party tools that I haven't personally verified. *I am extremely* upset that PoE client is now examining my computer and sending data back to the server.** I am uninstalling. Proof?	Posted by pneuma#0134 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:40:05 PM Alpha Member Quote this Post
" againwetryagain wrote: I don't cheat. I don't use third party tools that I haven't personally verified. I am extremely upset that PoE client is now examining my computer and sending data back to the server. I am uninstalling. HAHAHAHAHAH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Dys an sohm Rohs an kyn Sahl djahs afah Mah morn narr	Posted by Coconutdoggy#1805 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:40:35 PM Quote this Post
Well if you set out to make a f2p game inspired by d2 I'd hope you're ready for a whole lotta cheating to happen. There was a huge span of time during which Blizzard pretty much abandoned d2 but kept the servers up and people just ran wild. There had always been cheaters but I had never before encountered online gamers with an entitled attitude that cheats were just qol and the "if it makes it more fun for me I should be able to do it" thinking until I got back in to d2 after a long break when Blizzard started patching it again. Cheating was a standard part of d2 for quite a lot of players and openly discussed quite a bit. I would not expect Chris to be caught off guard by this at all given how real he when he talks about other aspects of the game and dealing with users. When I kill a man he stays dead. Last edited by mucker#5845 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:50:28 PM	Posted by mucker#5845 on Jan 13, 2015, 2:41:24 PM Quote this Post