In Guild Wars 2, a hacker admitted on Reddit to having hacked the game for months and exploiting unfair advantages. In response, ArenaNet revealed parts of their own anti-cheat program.
The user MegaWormHole revealed everything on Reddit. He claimed to have used a hack program “for a few months” and was able to achieve immediate speedruns through the Super Adventure Box. As a result, he even made a profit of $75 from a gold seller site.
However, despite his months of wrongdoing, the player was never banned. Now he wants to inform the developers about this problem: “I just want people to understand that we have a serious issue here that shouldn’t be taken lightly.”.
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However, it seems that the situation might not have been that severe. Shortly after, Chris Clearly, the head of game security at ArenaNet, addressed the issue. According to him, MegaWormHole was already known and “flagged” on a list with 300 other suspected hackers and cheaters.
Fallen Through the Cracks
However, since ArenaNet does not want to automatically ban hundreds of players, each of these cases is manually reviewed by an employee. “Your account was on a list of over 300 others slated for review in early April. You should have been dealt with, but for some reason, you fell through the cracks.”.
Therefore, it was probably more human error that led to MegaWormHole’s “success”, rather than ArenaNet’s ability to detect such cheaters.
What do you think? Is the system at ArenaNet fair and sensible, or does such a case show how ineffective MMO developers are against hackers in general? Let us know in the comments!
