GameSamba accounts issues.

[Lebeau]

Originally Posted by Lebeau

Uhhh, pardon me, but are you firmly stating that some actually DID get their items back, Jar? Your wording sorta' infers that some did & some didn't. I haven't gotten ANYthing back. I haven't heard of ANYone hacked who HAS gotten their stuff back yet. Not even a single one. IF someone actually has, then that IS good news & THEY SHOULD POST IT! ... but if not, then it's high time NGD either came thru on it's promise to "fix this sh*t"

GOOD NEWS!!! I, for one, got my hacked items back today & am now POSTING IT!

The fix turns out to be a spawn of all pre-hack items of all kinds into one's char. stash. If it got stolen, you got it back, & if it wasn't, you now have two of that item.

THIS took over a month?! .... Nevermind, my belated thanks regardless .... just glad to finally have my sh*t back .... well, most of it anyway.

No gold or wm coins lost were replaced, so GameSamba will be handling those issues. They said to submit a ticket if you had not recieved an email response informing you that your account has been restored btw.



/me is back in the saddle again, fully armed & operational... "FEAR ME!" (mount takes a spraying-monster-dump, gasps are heard & everyone steps back a pace or two & goes around an oblivious Lebeau).



"THAT'S RIGHT! GIMMEE' ROOM! ARRGGGHHHH..." (sees a target still backing away & notes to self) "...now if I could only kill at this range with ma' breath alone ... like Kang".





P.S.: sorry RicksaR & other hacked NGD customers. I truly wish this hadn't been just another rainy-day-Monday for you.

[Recoil]

if it wasn't, you now have two of that item.

Jesus christ NGD just outNGD'd itself

[andres81]

Awesome, like during 6 weeks they explained that it is taking soo much time because they can not just duplicate the items and have to track down any commercial activity and so on....
and now they just duplicate everything even if it was not robbed?

[Linuxmage]

Originally Posted by andres81

Awesome, like during 6 weeks they explained that it is taking soo much time because they can not just duplicate the items and have to track down any commercial activity and so on....
and now they just duplicate everything even if it was not robbed?

Well, i guess they gave up on attempting to track the trades and working out compensation, the issue had gotten too urgent. So, they did the next best -- duplicate spawn the items back into inventories.

[Lebeau]

FOLLOW-UP: All pre-hack items that were in toons' inventories as well as in their character stashes got respawned into toons' character stashes. I noticed however, that none of the pre-hack contents of my account stash were respawned. I'm not sure if this was just in my case or if it was the overall methodology used for everyone affected.

POSSIBLE RESULT: If stuff got stolen from your account stash, u may not have gotten it back yet. Check & think....

(Nothing was missing from my account stash, so I'm good, but others may not be. I therefore post this to inform u all).

[Frosk]

Originally Posted by Lebeau

GOOD NEWS!!!
The fix turns out to be a spawn of all pre-hack items of all kinds into one's char. stash. If it got stolen, you got it back, & if it wasn't, you now have two of that item.

I know you may be happy, but that's not a reason to start spreading incomplete info, since it may be misleading.

What has been done is basically back-up the inventories of those characters that, according to GameSamba, got affected by this issue.

Since directly applying the items to the character's inventory would end up overcoming its weight capacity, they've been added to the character's personal stash.

Regarding "duplicate" items, and those not understanding why would someone now have 2 items if it didn't got stolen, please understand that it would've been impossible to discriminate the "stolen" items from those that remained in the inventory, as well as those that got traded/destroyed.

This is because there's no possible way to actually make a difference between what was stolen and what was simply traded/given away, since the method to transfer the item from one character to another is by simply trading (/trade).
Imagine what would've happened if you traded something (say, 300 mags) to someone who got "hacked" and now that the victim got his items back, your hard-earned item just popped-off just to go back to its owner's inventory (and you don't get your mags back).

Anyway, since it has been confirmed that it affected mostly GameSamba users, and it was announced by GameSamba that this issue is over, I'll proceed to close this thread.

Best,