This has me spooked!

[SuperCentipede]

This morning, while I was in Desert Exploration, this chat appeared from someone called "PSO-hack.com" with the message: TEST

If people keep hacking the game like this, it's only going to be a matter of time before Sega starts purging the game of foreigners again! :cry:

[Chimeria]

Yeah, that happened to me as well a while back. It was kind of strange but I didn't think much of it. To be honest, I've never seen an obvious hacker in pso2.

[wefwq]

This morning, while I was in Desert Exploration, this chat appeared from someone called "PSO-hack.com" with the message: TEST

If people keep hacking the game like this, it's only going to be a matter of time before Sega starts purging the game of foreigners again! :cry:
They already did to us SEAmen.
And you can just ignore those "hacker" people, stop giving them attention they want.

[Shinamori]

This morning, while I was in Desert Exploration, this chat appeared from someone called "PSO-hack.com" with the message: TEST

If people keep hacking the game like this, it's only going to be a matter of time before Sega starts purging the game of foreigners again! :cry:

Sega isn't going to to anything. They been doing this for the past 2+ years.

[KazukiQZ]

They already did to us SEAmen.
And you can just ignore those "hacker" people, stop giving them attention they want.
-28th May 2014, Never Forget- :(

[ArcaneTechs]

delete thread, stop making threads everytime they do this, rule of thumb by now

[SuperCentipede]

How often do they do this?

[ashley50]

Not often.
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[strikerhunter]

How often do they do this?


They been doing this for the past 2+ years.
About 1,2-5 times every season?

[Flaoc]

its just zapero looking for some lovin.. nothing unusual

[TaigaUC]

They do it once or twice a month. Fairly often, but not too often.
If SEGA gave a shit, they would probably fix that global whisper feature.

[Zorak000]

its just buttmaster looking for some lovin.. nothing unusual

yeah they are just testing the their junk; though I can't seem to search for them anymore in arks search; I know I blacklisted a lot of their accounts, but for some reason I don't get any search hits on whatever character they use to whisper from.

I know I am searching the correct name because I exit the game, allow the game to generate the log files from that session, then copy the correct info from there to do my searches with. but for some reason I haven't got any matches anymore


EDIT: oh yeah can we just refer to them as "buttmaster" or something that is not in any way related to their name from here on out?

[the_importer_]

And this is why I'm happy not to reside in ship 02.

[Squal_FFVIII]

What I wanna know is how are they getting our names? That's kinda concerning.

Now i'm not trying to give them "attention" but our accounts in danger or something? That's all I want to know. How are they whispering us when we arent even around them nor do they actually know us.

[bhaal]

They already did to us SEAmen.
And you can just ignore those "hacker" people, stop giving them attention they want.

[spoiler-box]http://i.imgur.com/dPl36WV.jpg[/spoiler-box]

[milranduil]

What I wanna know is how are they getting our names? That's kinda concerning.

Now i'm not trying to give them "attention" but our accounts in danger or something? That's all I want to know. How are they whispering us when we arent even around them nor do they actually know us.

They whisper everyone on the ship, so no.

[GHNeko]

Was the Waifu Sale whisper by the same people?

Because they sent like 3-4 whispers within an hour.

[Squal_FFVIII]

They whisper everyone on the ship, so no.

How do they manage to get all of our names and then whisper us though? That's the "creepy" part that they seem to know our in game ID names then they whisper us. That's the part that I want to know.

[GHNeko]

They don't get all our names.

They're illegally using a global whisper feature that sends blanket whispers to almost everyone.

I say almost, because sometimes everyone in my team who's online gets a whisper, but I dont.

[Anduril]

How do they manage to get all of our names and then whisper us though? That's the "creepy" part that they seem to know our in game ID names then they whisper us. That's the part that I want to know.
It's most likely not that they are getting all our Player IDs, more that they have found a way to just send a mass whisper to all connected players, similar to how system messages are sent out or how the proxy's global chat operates.

[Vintasticvin]

They're illegally using a global whisper feature that sends blanket whispers to almost everyone.


^This

[Achelousaurus]

Yeah, that happened to me as well a while back. It was kind of strange but I didn't think much of it. To be honest, I've never seen an obvious hacker in pso2.
You've never seen Szidan lobby dancing with friend partners?


Sega isn't going to to anything. They been doing this for the past 2+ years.
You mean 14.
Hackers/cheaters have not actually done any harm yet. Someone linked a hack vid in another topic and it was no faster killing than a good ra.
As opposed to the huge amount of shit in previous Phantasy Star games. Considering Sega's larger than Jupiter mass intertia I suppose before there are a lot of complaints about serious hacking (cutting into Sega's profits, Noling, etc.) Sega will not even bat an eyelid.


yeah they are just testing the their junk; though I can't seem to search for them anymore in arks search; I know I blacklisted a lot of their accounts, but for some reason I don't get any search hits on whatever character they use to whisper from.
That is a really common bug and has nothing to do with cheating.
Happens to me all the time with random people.

[Squal_FFVIII]

Alright thanks for the explanation :D

[Dammy]

That is a really common bug and has nothing to do with cheating.
Happens to me all the time with random people.

Hmm, are you guys sure you search people by their full name/id and not partial? because that was disabled, only team search work like that now

[Achelousaurus]

Yes, even when seeing the person in the lobby and making sure I got it exactly right it sometimes doesn't work.

[KazukiQZ]

^You can just directly click him, and blacklist at the spot.

[Vintasticvin]

Until they start "player killing" or crashing the ship then I would consider going batshit crazy and flinging poop at each other while swinging on a chandelier.

[Achelousaurus]

^You can just directly click him, and blacklist at the spot.
It wasn't about blacklisting, but rather about the ARKs Search of the Visiphone failing frequently.

[mctastee]

That guy does that everyone once in a while. It goes to everyone on the ship.