Congrats hackers, you made devs work on a Sunday!!

cormack12

cormack12

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Source: https://www.thegamer.com/congrats-titanfall-hackers-you-made-a-bunch-of-devs-work-on-a-sunday/

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Apex Legends is currently offline thanks to a cyber-attack from the Titanfall community. If you log into the game on PC, you'll be greeted by a message that says "visit and repost savetitanfall.com" and find that the only available game mode SAVETITANFALL.COM, which launches training mode. You can't select any other playlist right now. An hour ago, Respawn tweeted that it was investigating the issue. Apex Legends has been offline on PC for over 10 hours.

If you visit savetitanfall.com, you'll find a short manifesto outlining the ways that developer Respawn has failed to combat cheaters in the original Titanfall and for years has swept the issue under the rug. This, according to the website creator, is an act of fraud. "Respawn and Electronic Arts have the resources to fix these issues," the website states. "Yet they don't, knowingly continuing to sell a game that does not work as advertised, and doesn't work at all."

The hack on Apex Legends is a desperate attempt to draw attention to savetitanfall.com — whose staff has publically disavowed the hack — and the Titanfall community that is fed up with hackers in the game. While the stunt has certainly brought a lot of attention to the issue, it will no doubt fail in its ultimate mission to eliminate cheaters from Titanfall. The only thing this example of extreme gamer entitlement will accomplish is getting a bunch of devs to work overtime on a holiday weekend.

The issues that face Titanfall and its community are not unique to that game, but rather endemic to the entire online/live service industry. The most popular, profitable games in the world — including Apex Legends — are in a constant battle with cheaters and hackers. Older games with smaller player bases receive less support and therefore less work is being done to stop cheaters. This is just basic economics, and attacking a different game made by different people isn't going to change that.

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I suspect that anybody that works on a live service game has a similar situation to someone who works on an on call profession(ie. EMTs, firefighters). It sucks but it is what it is.
 
Wonder when you'll ever stop posting shitty clickbait articles. Yes, they had to "work" on a Sunday, but that's because they havent fucking fixed an ongoing issue with Titanfall, aka they just dont care and some ppl got tired of them not caring. Developers sometimes have to work on Sundays anyway, this is not some unique case. It's part of their job.
 
I'm sorry but this title and tweet is sensationalism at its paroxysm. obligatory
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he was just unlucky it was his turn to be on call.It's part of the job and he is paid for it.
 
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The day that Lazy devs had to stop being lazy this day will live on in infamy #neverforget
 
Maybe.
Just maybe.
It's the executives that don't want to place resources on fixing the problem.
And y'all targeting the genuine workers.

Just a thought, don't mind me.
 
Barakov said:
I suspect that anybody that works on a live service game has a similar situation to someone who works on an on call profession(ie. EMTs, firefighters). It sucks but it is what it is.
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Pretty much everyone working in IT has to work on weekends once in a while. I work for an insurance company and 3/4 times per year there are deployments done on weekends, tough shit. We get double pay and have 35 days of paid leave per year anyway.
 
Oh I'm so sorry you had to work on a Sunday poor you. Thank fuck I only work in a hospital doing 12 plus hours 5 or 6 days a week. I'm only doing 6 days this week including Sunday but forget little old me
 
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nani17 said:
Oh I'm so sorry you had to work on a Sunday poor you. Thank fuck I only work in a hospital doing 12 plus hours 5 or 6 days a week. I'm only doing 6 days this week including Sunday but forget little old me
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Another episode of "my work sucks, so yours must suck too".
 
TheCockatrice said:
Wonder when you'll ever stop posting shitty clickbait articles. Yes, they had to "work" on a Sunday, but that's because they havent fucking fixed an ongoing issue with Titanfall, aka they just dont care and some ppl got tired of them not caring. Developers sometimes have to work on Sundays anyway, this is not some unique case. It's part of their job.
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I see your comments in all these threads, lol. I ignore you because you seem desperate to be acknowledged, so you keep getting more and more extreme. I'll throw you a bone with this reply though. But in future, I'll continue scrolling past your angry old man posts and ignoring them until you actually have something of substance to say.

Until then keep posting in these topics and bumping them to the top my friend. I love it.

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nani17 said:
Oh I'm so sorry you had to work on a Sunday poor you. Thank fuck I only work in a hospital doing 12 plus hours 5 or 6 days a week. I'm only doing 6 days this week including Sunday but forget little old me
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Posts like these always make me chuckle.

How is this in any way relevant to this thread? You do that job out of your own volition, yes?


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cormack12 said:
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I see your comments in all these threads, lol. I ignore you because you seem desperate to be acknowledged, so you keep getting more and more extreme. I'll throw you a bone with this reply though. But in future, I'll continue scrolling past your angry old man posts and ignoring them until you actually have something of substance to say.

Until then keep posting in these topics and bumping them to the top my friend. I love it.

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Desperate to be acknowledged? Nah just trying to put some sense into ya or anyone stupid enough to read those articles. You're free to post dumb ass articles as you want, it's not like you're getting payed for the clicks on gaf rofl however I'm not going to stop as long as you post garbage from kotaku or thegamer or whatever else shit you get brainwashed on your toilet. Keep giving them money I guess, I'm sure the site owners will thank you for your service in spreading their disease.
 
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nani17 said:
Oh I'm so sorry you had to work on a Sunday poor you. Thank fuck I only work in a hospital doing 12 plus hours 5 or 6 days a week. I'm only doing 6 days this week including Sunday but forget little old me
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I'll never understand posts like this. Other people can't complain about their situation or inconveniences because you have it worse?
 
I understand DDoS is a hard issue to solve. No quetsions there.

But at the same time they should put a disclaimer before on every sale of Titanfall 1 informing customers of this known issue and that it may affect their gameplay experience.
 
Every time someone makes a thread about working conditions a bunch of 60 year old coal miners magically appear to tell us how they work 400 hours a week without overtime pay and that nobody has the right to decent working hours because of that.

It's uncanny.
 
Okay? So?

Has no one ever had to work a shift in their life they didn't want to do? Or had to do overtime for something not properly contracted?

Come on.
 
Lanrutcon said:
Every time someone makes a thread about working conditions a bunch of 60 year old coal miners magically appear to tell us how they work 400 hours a week without overtime pay and that nobody has the right to decent working hours because of that.

It's uncanny.
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Hey hey hey there buddy, no coalminer racism in here.
 
Nothing like a bunch of gamers playing Overwatch and slurping cola for a living complaining about people not working and being bitches.
 
nani17 said:
Nope absolutely love my job
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Didn't look like it from your previous post, good for you anyway.

Not wanting to work on Sundays is normal, though. Especially if the reason you're in the office on your off-day is a fat nerd with nothing better to do.
 
Miles708 said:
Didn't look like it from your previous post, good for you anyway.

Not wanting to work on Sundays is normal, though. Especially if the reason you're in the office on your off-day is a fat nerd with nothing better to do.
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True it didn't sound like it should have worded it better.
 
Miles708 said:
Didn't look like it from your previous post, good for you anyway.

Not wanting to work on Sundays is normal, though. Especially if the reason you're in the office on your off-day is a fat nerd with nothing better to do.
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Exactly, these people think Respawn is gonna put 100 guys on the game because of this. They ain't, it's only gonna take longer now.
 
DGrayson said:
I understand DDoS is a hard issue to solve. No quetsions there.

But at the same time they should put a disclaimer before on every sale of Titanfall 1 informing customers of this known issue and that it may affect their gameplay experience.
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I'd normally agree, but we're way past the point of a disclaimer saying that a known issue MAY affect their game.

If you're not already aware, Titanfall 1 is completely unplayable. Not in a hyperbolic "I run into hackers and server issues in 1 out of every 10 games" way, or even a "4 out of every 5 games" way. There is nothing you can do to play Titanfall 1 online right now, and it's been that way for years. It's also an online only game, with no single player modes, and it's still being sold.
 
Holding his newborn nephew? What, was in the hospital theatre when his sister/in-law was shitting it out?
 
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Man, if I had to go on a woeful twitter rant every time I needed to work on a week-end, a national day-off or a holiday, I wouldn't get any work done either.
 
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LegendOfKage said:
I'd normally agree, but we're way past the point of a disclaimer saying that a known issue MAY affect their game.

If you're not already aware, Titanfall 1 is completely unplayable. Not in a hyperbolic "I run into hackers and server issues in 1 out of every 10 games" way, or even a "4 out of every 5 games" way. There is nothing you can do to play Titanfall 1 online right now, and it's been that way for years. It's also an online only game, with no single player modes, and it's still being sold.
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I'm still not sure that's entirely legal.
I'd argue that platform holders should take it off their stores until it's functioning again.

That's pretty much a scam, currently.
 
Lanrutcon said:
Every time someone makes a thread about working conditions a bunch of 60 year old coal miners magically appear to tell us how they work 400 hours a week without overtime pay and that nobody has the right to decent working hours because of that.

It's uncanny.
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They work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week in the salt mines.
 
To be fair, most (non essential) things should be closed on Sundays as it's the lord's day, and time should be spent with god /in church / with family ( I know I'm vastly in the minority here), but these people don't help themselves anyway.
 
llOswaldll said:
To be fair, most (non essential) things should be closed on Sundays as it's the lord's day, and time should be spent with god /in church / with family ( I know I'm vastly in the minority here), but these people don't help themselves anyway.
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What if I don't believe in god though? Seems weird to want to mandate that I shouldn't be able to do certain things because of a belief I don't have.
 
He could have pretends being Frodon Sacquet , that he went for an adventure, far from home , delivering purity to purge the world from evil.
 
What this story leaves out is that this job and hacks like this are what allows him to afford the luxury of even having a nephew.
 
Fuck Apex, Battle Royale can't die cast enough as a genre.

Titanfall 2 is still great fun, we need a proper sequel, but that probably won't happen.
 
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LegendOfKage said:
I'd normally agree, but we're way past the point of a disclaimer saying that a known issue MAY affect their game.

If you're not already aware, Titanfall 1 is completely unplayable. Not in a hyperbolic "I run into hackers and server issues in 1 out of every 10 games" way, or even a "4 out of every 5 games" way. There is nothing you can do to play Titanfall 1 online right now, and it's been that way for years. It's also an online only game, with no single player modes, and it's still being sold.
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Agreed I was being nice to try to meet in the middle. I'm on the side of the hackers TBH.
 
I think most people misunderstand the point of the developer. He's saying that they're perfectly aware of the issues, are working on them anyway, and hacking the game (or other games) to complain only makes it worse for the people trying to fix it.
Sure it's their job to go to the bridge when an issue appears, but you can't expect them to congratulate people creating those issues, especially when they claim they're doing it "to help". It's like some ER doctor having to work overtime because some smart-asses created accidents to show that ER services aren't efficient. Sure it's part of their job to work overtime, but it doesn't mean it's fine to make them do so on purpose.
 
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