07/13 Emergency Maitenance to address NPC moving Exploit.

2012年7月12日（木）20:20更新
アークス・ロビー内のNPCの位置を変更するという不正行為につきまして、原因を特定し、
修正とアップデートの準備を進めております。
この対応として明日7月13日（金）に臨時メンテナンスを行わせていただく予定です。

臨時メンテナンスまでの暫定対応として、該当ブロックの再起動および不正行為を行った
アカウントの利用停止を行いました。

ただし、臨時サーバーメンテナンスまでは、Ship02だけでなく、他のシップにおいても
同様の問題が発生する可能性がございます。
現在Ship09にて、同様の現象を確認しております。

誠に申し訳ございませんが、「アークス・ロビー内のNPCが正しい場所にいない」ブロックが
発生した場合は、不正行為が発生していない別のブロックでプレイいただくようお願いいたします 。

お客様には大変ご迷惑をおかけしておりますことをお詫びいたします。


Source:
http://pso2.jp/players/news/?id=209

As the incident have not just effect Ship-2.
Sega have confirmed that they had also moved the NPC in Ship 9, there will be an emergency maitenance to address this issue, no set time have been given yet.

From 1: pm to 6: pm JST.

Ship 9 got hit as well? Of course it had to be the only two ships I have characters on

honestly, I hope sega can really put a stop to all this. It makes me sad such a jewel of a game get hacked. I am glad i am on ship 10 and have not seen any hacking yet. I like fair legit playing! Stupid hackers need to seriously get a life.

As long as we don't have a Sony repeat on hand.

Knowing that they can manipulate server data for npc, they probably can mess with plenty of other things too.

Though I'm not sure if they can touch credit card information yet. That will depend how closely related are the game server and credit card/AC database. (Now if they touch Sega ID database...)

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Originally Posted by DoubleCannon

honestly, I hope sega can really put a stop to all this. It makes me sad such a jewel of a game get hacked. I am glad i am on ship 10 and have not seen any hacking yet. I like fair legit playing! Stupid hackers need to seriously get a life.

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Technically they didn't hack anything that would make the game unfair this time, but it was still quite the nuisance. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Blackheart521

Technically they didn't hack anything that would make the game unfair this time, but it was still quite the nuisance. ^^;

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I guess you haven't tried typing in "PSO2" and "god mode" into YouTube, have you?

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Originally Posted by Kritzinger

I guess you haven't tried typing in "PSO2" and "god mode" into YouTube, have you?

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I know that there ARE those types of cheats but that isn't what the focus is on this time. Hence the title of the thread.

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Originally Posted by Sizustar

As the incident have not just effect Ship-2.
Sega have confirmed that they had also moved the NPC in Ship 9, there will be an emergency maitenance to address this issue, no set time have been given yet.

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So the logical explanation must be that the people that's messing around on Ship 2 got banned.

SEGA's acting awfully fast for this. >.>

I'm glad there fixing the issue soon we can play and enjoy pso2 once more. I know game barely just been release but I know there gonna improve the game more

what time is that in mst or est?

inb4complacencyandtrolls

I can only hope that they won't start consider region-blocking as a result. The Japanese playerbase is already unhappy with us as it is, the last thing we need is for them to believe their fear of us is founded.

Also, semi-serious question: I see "RMT" in discussions of these idjits. What is RMT?

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Originally Posted by Dan Maku

Also, semi-serious question: I see "RMT" in discussions of these idjits. What is RMT?

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Real money trade. Selling meseta for real world money. Gold farming may be a more familiar term here in the west.

And we all though PSO2 would be Eden, guess it wasn't, with hackers around and a lot of downtime due to patches.

At least Sega is doing shit. If this was on the American servers, SoA wouldn't do shit.

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Originally Posted by Yakatsugi

And we all though PSO2 would be Eden, guess it wasn't, with hackers around and a lot of downtime due to patches.

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It's Eden, if they find a way to nuke Block 20 for good!

Blah. This is annoying. Because of work I only get to play at night... when all the maintenance is happening.

In the long term I don't think we'll be able to play much if they keep up with the patches and downtime maintenance. Yeah you can salvage in some hours each day but, thinking at it from a long-term perspective, for those who stay home all day and want to play all day and only have like a month left to do so, we won't really get a lot of time to play until the game stabilizes.

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Originally Posted by darkfalz16

what time is that in mst or est?

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If I converted it correctly, it'll be at 12am EST.
Current local time in Tokyo

Hmm...

Spoiler!

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instanc...x/23342954.jpg

You mean the winter?

yea hopefully these get fixed and my freind's ban gets lifted. It is quite sad when some one who is innocent gets banned.

Wow Im wondering if I should see it as a blessing that my pc crashed after OBT. Its an insane end of week internet wise, first Nyancat gets attacked and now PSO2 is on fire... wow man wow.

As for the report paper the public has on the pso2 incident its clear the hacker/s were telling sega the game isnt as protected as they think it is and that their actions are the voices of the fas not happy about servers not being joint and are "teaching Sega a lesson".

The only thing that can save the western importer community is if a hacker stands up and put a stop to the malicious hacker/s nonsense.

Also it would suck right now being a part of that team called ".dothackers" right now.

Unless these guys are posing a threat to a hacker who respects the game enough to not release his work to the public then I highly doubt anyone is going to "stand up" to them...

It appears Sega of Japan is taking swift action. The guys claim to have been doing this for sometime and laughing at sega for it but my guess is they have been keeping it under wraps just for the sake of there argument until now. Sega will react, but how they react is left to be debatable. I do not think they will IP Ban. It would be easy but we are still part of the AC money flow for them, not to mention I think Sega understands that two little punks doesn't define us all. But alas, this is a sad sad day for PSO2....

Two little punks? Lolz..... sad indeed.

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Originally Posted by Vintasticvin

Also it would suck right now being a part of that team called ".dothackers" right now.

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LOL I AM!!!!

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Originally Posted by Blackheart521

LOL I AM!!!!

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:( You guys and gals getting any heat from the rage tards or you all arnt bugged.

Just feelin' that the perfect PSO2 is no longer pefect 'cause of 'em hackers. One of the reason I uninstalled and currently downloading now... 6 hours...

No one wants to play with hacker/cheaters. Playing MMO isn't about competition of your technical IT skills/hacking,scripting... whatever it involves. It's just about playing the game, distinction, advantage, progress is gained from playing. To come into possession of said things without even playing and just "hacking" is not "unfair" to everyone, it's like pissing on a cake at a birthday party and expect everyone to still want to have a piece of.
Though really the only reason they're hacking is to screw with other people and not gain advantage for themselves so far, the above analogy still applies. "It can be done."

If the guys who are involved in this hacking incident want to show off their hacking prowess, go do it to rob a bank or in some hacking class in school.

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Originally Posted by Yakatsugi

Just feelin' that the perfect PSO2 is no longer pefect

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Not to burst your bubble, but no game's perfect, with or without hackers.

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Originally Posted by Yakatsugi

No one wants to play with hacker/cheaters. Playing MMO isn't about competition[...]

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..Then why do you let the hackers affect you at all? Way to let them win

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Originally Posted by GoldenFalcon

..Then why do you let the hackers affect you at all? Way to let them win

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ding ding ding we have a winner.

all most of them want is atention.

Funny, I haven't even really noticed or cared about hackers and haven't effected me in the least in this game till they fucked with my npcs. Shit just got srs. Still, I haven't been effected at all from closed beta to release until they fired all the npcs, so long as they get weeded out and at least get this npc crap sorted, all is good. Hackers for damn sure have yet to stop me from enjoying anything in the game, just a minor annoyance like the damn attention grabbing bugs they are.

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Originally Posted by Vintasticvin

:( You guys and gals getting any heat from the rage tards or you all arnt bugged.

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I haven't gotten anything said to me in regards to my team's name, actually had a really good time today playing with one of my english friends and two japanese players. So no issues there as of yet. ^^

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Originally Posted by Blackheart521

I haven't gotten anything said to me in regards to my team's name, actually had a really good time today playing with one of my english friends and two japanese players. So no issues there as of yet. ^^

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Happy face thats good and I was kinda wondering bot your guys after the whole shitstorm regarding servers going down :o

Getting so sick of the maintenances on this game -.-. They always come when I actually have time off work to sit down and play.

; ~ ; Maintenance.....

Man, had a killer party going farming Vol Dragon.

Pre-maintenance lobby spam is great fun, though!

indeed isn't the weekly maintenance on Tuesdays for us?

Spoiler!

http://i.imgur.com/I0gqz.jpg

Well you might LIKE this maint, why?

Because this one is to address the NPCs being moved around, something about an exploit that needed closing if I remember right.

So you'd rather not let them fix problems?

Maintenance,

How long will this one last...I didn't play all day only for this to happen.

Heh, I wish I was able to read the warnings, the maintenance started a 9PM on the dot for me and we had JUST finished a boss fight >.<

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Originally Posted by Garnet_Moon

Spoiler!

http://i.imgur.com/I0gqz.jpg

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Aaaand this is exactly what I was talking about!

Better now than later to get all the kinks ironed out of the game early.

I'm actually quite glad that they're having all these maintenances, myself.

I don't like it. I can't handle that much commotion.

I wasn't exactly aware of the maintenace, but I guess it seems like a scheduled thing.

Yeah I kept seeing those warnings, guessed it was for a maintenance.

Oh well, I made my character and beat mission 0 lol

How long will this one last?

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

How long will this one last?

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http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198054

Site says 13:00~18:00 JST

A.K.A.: 12:00am - 5am EDT

http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198054

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

How long will this one last?

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Scheduled for 5 hours, but it can go longer if need be.

Yeah.. it's bullshit really..

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Originally Posted by oifjustus

Getting so sick of the maintenances on this game -.-. They always come when I actually have time off work to sit down and play.

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If you wish to blame anyone, you can blame those script kiddies. My gf can read Chinese, and on a Chinese related PSO2 forum they uploaded screenshots of the program being used. All the interface of the program are in English. I got all excited looking at the things you can do such as walk through walls and infinite PP, but was immediately put down by my gf as she told me that many people confirmed being banned for experimenting with the program.

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Originally Posted by oifjustus

Getting so sick of the maintenances on this game -.-. They always come when I actually have time off work to sit down and play.

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There is good reason for this maintenance, though: to counter-act the recent hack attacks.

Also, there's gonna be a big maintenance next week for the new Mine area and new costumes.

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Originally Posted by Yunfa

If you wish to blame anyone, you can blame those script kiddies. My gf can read Chinese, and on a Chinese related PSO2 forum they uploaded screenshots of the program being used. All the interface of the program are in English. I got all excited looking at the things you can do such as walk through walls and infinite PP, but was immediately put down by my gf as she told me that many people confirmed being banned for experimenting with the program.

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This... isn't something you'd want to admit in a place like this.

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Originally Posted by Shakuri

I'd honestly be cool with 7 hour maintenance everyday

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NOPE.jpg

So that's 5-7 hours? great...

You know its getting annoying that they choose the exact times you play to do it.

For some reason whenever I get disconnected the first thing I think is "damn they banned foreigners" and I go rushing to the website and server list to assure myself it's just maintenance. I've already spend too much money on arc and it's making me super paranoid

Well, the maintenance gets me to read up on the guides on what I'm confused about @_@

Just 5, if all goes well.

I knew this maintenance was coming from reading the bumped blog earlier today, so I logged out before I got the boot. I'm glad they're reacting so swiftly to the recent hacks though. I'd rather get too much service than not enough.

Maybe they'll make the NPCs like.... glued to the floor lmao.

I should've stayed sleeping, but I wont.

They released the game too early without testing it properly, that's what I'm seeing.

Technology is reaching a time where mankind just cant handle it anymore.

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

I should've stayed sleeping, but I wont.

They released the game too early without testing it properly.

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No, the game that got released too early was FFXIV.

PSO2 is spot on. Well, aside from the security issue...

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

I should've stayed sleeping, but I wont.

They released the game too early without testing it properly, that's what I'm seeing.

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Damn those npc's walking around like that! :O

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

I should've stayed sleeping, but I wont.

They released the game too early without testing it properly, that's what I'm seeing.

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Well this maintenance wasn't really something they were planning on, it's because of the recent NPC hacking that was happening, basically preventing it from happening again. ^^;

Right, it's maintenance to address the effects of the hacking attacks, not for bug fixes or anything.

At least, it's MAINLY for that.

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Originally Posted by Garnet_Moon

No, the game that got released too early was FFXIV.

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That steaming pile of shit that was supposed to be pay to play, but ended up being free to play (after buying the client of course) for over a year while they sorted their shit out? Yeah people should start comparing PSO2's launch to that and then there wouldn't be any complaining!

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Originally Posted by FOnewearl-Lina

That steaming pile of shit that was supposed to be pay to play, but ended up being free to play (after buying the client of course) for over a year while they sorted their shit out? Yeah people should start comparing PSO2's launch to that and then there wouldn't be any complaining!

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FFXIV was so bad it had to stay f2p, but last year it went p2p... a very low monthly fee, yes, but still p2p. Yeah, that killed the server I was on, so I said screw it and dropped it. I... I still keep it updated because I will try it again when they reactivate all accounts for the free month to try 2.0....

My topic was Transformed "fused"? 0_o..uh thanks.

This is what it says.

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Currently, there are cheating in some block of Ship02, called to change the position of the NPC in the ARCS Lobby
Has been confirmed, we consider the measures.

Because there is if you want to restart the block in question to resolve, but very sorry,
If you are "not to place the correct NPC in the ARCS Lobby" in the block,
We encourage you to play in another block abuse has not occurred.

In addition, more information about fraud is currently under investigation, by this fraud
Or that adversely affect the play of your data, such as some personal information is compromised or
Please be assured that do not have.

Operation team "PSO2" is open later for an account of 75 β test, cheating has been confirmed,
We have implemented measures to stop the permanent use. In addition, for fraud, such as the use of the account to do to stop immediately after checking in the future,
We will continue to deal with the rigorous means decisive.

In addition, we posted about the ban on use of the account list in the corresponding situation.
For information on what to do to cheating, you will be notified by corresponding status list in the future.

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Wait..so there's hackers in ship 2? figures... and are all the ships on maintenance because of this?

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

My topic was transformed? 0_o..uh thanks.

This is what it says.



Wait..so there's hackers in ship 2? figures... and are all the ships on maintenance because of this?

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Yes, there were (or are) hackers on Ship 2, and yes, maintenance is for all ships.

Cmon, I got the 3 day My Shop ticket and theres been sum kinda maintenance every day so far!

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Originally Posted by Hucast-Kireek

My topic was transformed? 0_o..uh thanks.

This is what it says.



Wait..so there's hackers in ship 2? figures... and are all the ships on maintenance because of this?

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...you... just... found out... about the hackers...? And yes, all the servers are down to address it on them all. If they did it on only a few, they can do it on the others.

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Originally Posted by KrankItVZ

Cmon, I got the 3 day My Shop ticket and theres been sum kinda maintenance every day so far!

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It's for 30 days, bro.

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Originally Posted by Hosaka

It's for 30 days, bro.

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Not if the ticket is for 3 days, bro.

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Originally Posted by Geistritter

Not if the ticket is for 3 days, bro.

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Is that how much the FUN scratch version gives? Damn.

Meh, it's free. I wouldn't mind grabbing that now and again myself.

See this is why we cant have nice things...they are wasting our time and SEGA's time!

(I knew there were hackers but not this magnitude of them)

Okay, yeah, I can see how that would be really annoying if you only had your shop open for 3 days during all these maints. :<

Indeed.

At any rate, I hope non-Japanese players don't become the scourge certain other demographics become on North American free to play games. Even if they didn't IP block us, it's unfortunate for the people who're dickholes who have nothing better to do than be irritating to be grouped with the people who just want to play the game.

Not much fun for the Japanese players either, not that all of them aren't dickholes. Never come across any groups of them consistently celebrating the self-imposed stupidity block 20 does, though.

The cries of "RUINED FOREVER" are nonetheless silly. Not only was this not a perfect game to begin with by any remote definition of the term, but shit like this is bound to happen eventually.

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Originally Posted by Geistritter

Indeed.

At any rate, I hope non-Japanese players don't become the scourge certain other demographics become on North American free to play games.

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This'll happen no matter what, because JP will stumble into block 20 and see a whole bunch of ppl talking in public chat. They didn't like this in PSU and they don't like it now either.

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Originally Posted by Garnet_Moon

FFXIV was so bad it had to stay f2p, but last year it went p2p... a very low monthly fee, yes, but still p2p. Yeah, that killed the server I was on, so I said screw it and dropped it. I... I still keep it updated because I will try it again when they reactivate all accounts for the free month to try 2.0....

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Yeah I quit before it went p2p, and I had everything at 50 to so you can tell how much I tortured myself with that game.
At least they're finally getting a JUMP feature in 2.0!

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Originally Posted by FOnewearl-Lina

This'll happen no matter what, because JP will stumble into block 20 and see a whole bunch of ppl talking in public chat. They didn't like this in PSU and they don't like it now either.

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Newsflash: There are Japanese people in Block 20! And they talk in public chat, too!

TO US :V

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Originally Posted by Hosaka

Newsflash: There are Japanese people in Block 20! And they talk in public chat, too!

TO US :V

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Bakagaijin and strings of wwwwwwwwwwwwww are not exactly what I would consider in favor of us.

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Originally Posted by Hosaka

Okay, yeah, I can see how that would be really annoying if you only had your shop open for 3 days during all these maints. :<

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*Raises hand*

I'm one of those people.

I don't really care though. Why should I complain that I managed to use a cash shop feature for free? Still got 2 days out of it.

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Originally Posted by Hosaka

Newsflash: There are Japanese people in Block 20! And they talk in public chat, too!

TO US :V

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And then they go and post anonymously in 2ch about how there's so many damn bakagaijin in block 20 of ship 2, how is that a newsflash?

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Originally Posted by Garnet_Moon

Bakagaijin and strings of wwwwwwwwwwwwww are not exactly what I would consider in favor of us.

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There are those types, but there are friendly ones, too. YUPO, SANZO, shiness, and even one of my teammates, Keyo, all frequent B20 and talk to everyone.

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Originally Posted by Hosaka

Newsflash: There are Japanese people in Block 20! And they talk in public chat, too!

TO US :V

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Newsflash: There were Japanese people talking about how us foreigners suck at translating into Japanese on block 43.

learn japanese? go into your control panel and unlock the japanese keyboard?

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Originally Posted by Garnet_Moon

...you... just... found out... about the hackers...? And yes, all the servers are down to address it on them all. If they did it on only a few, they can do it on the others.

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Not to mention they DID actually do it to others. They hit ship 9 earlier from what I heard and they hit ship 7 about an hour before this maint

Newsflash: All Japanese people think and act as one. Because some dislike English speakers or make fun them, the rest must do the same! /sarcasm

The point I was addressing was that the Japanese aren't going to "stumble" onto us, be all shocked about our behavior, and start plotting to get us all IP banned. They already know we're playing and where we are. Some like it, some don't.

Most of the Japanese in block 20 don't seem to mind all the gaijin . A lot of them go there specifically just to practice their English with us.

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Originally Posted by Vylera

Newsflash: There were Japanese people talking about how us foreigners suck at translating into Japanese on block 43.

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Haha. I met a nice JP guy in game and he let me play with his other JP friends. I'm sure I embarrassed him and his friends were probably like :roll: because I chose to use Japanese phrases gyaru girls say. LOL.

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Originally Posted by Hosaka

Newsflash: All Japanese people think and act as one. Because some dislike English speakers or make fun them, the rest must do the same! /sarcasm

The point I was addressing was that the Japanese aren't going to "stumble" onto us, be all shocked about our behavior, and start plotting to get us all IP banned. They already know we're playing and where we are. Some like it, some don't.

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Newsflash: Just because *some* Japanese know about the English presence on block 20, not *all* of them do. It's not impossible for a new Japanese player to stumble into block 20 and be confronted with a wall of public chat.

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Originally Posted by FOnewearl-Lina

Newsflash: Just because *some* Japanese know about the English presence on block 20, not *all* of them do. It's not impossible for a new Japanese player to stumble into block 20 and be confronted with a wall of public chat.

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Newsfl--okay, I'm gonna end that right here.

So a lone Japanese player stumbles onto B20 every now and again, and they don't happen to have been informed beforehand that there is a good English presence on that ship, during an especially chatty time amongst the lobby rats. Okay, I'll give you that that scenario is plausible.

What's going to happen, really? The post anonymously on 2ch of their loathing for the bakagaijin, and... what? Like I said, MOST already know. Sega definitely knows. If anything's going to get us in trouble, it's the hackers, not how people on B20 act.

Honestly, the ones who complain the most about B20 are other English-speakers themselves. They're the ones with the real stick up their butts about it.

Whew, just made an account and hit level 5 last night.

What's all this drama about chat lobbies? A block of foreigners spamming general chat is something I'd find hilarious, though I guess I made the mistake of rolling on a more Japanese ship.

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Originally Posted by holdthephone

Whew, just made an account and hit level 5 last night.

What's all this drama about chat lobbies? That's seems common in any MMO -- WoW general channel was hilarious.

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Most likely on an unaffected ship. Hackers moved the quest NPCs outside the area players can get to on the more popular ships and blocks. Hence this current maintenance.

Now I wonder what pic-chats are made by Japanese players and what are made by others.