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[pecoes]

Bioware in its infinite wisdom has decided to turn off the servers for the old Jade Empire forum. All the gameplay hints, all the technical advise, all the old mods and especially all the original modding knowledge is gone now. As if it never existed. Some small scraps can still be found via the wayback machine, but that's it. The end. Of course there was no warning. They simply pulled the plug. Just like that.

Now, I'm not the sort of person who swears in online forums... I've never done that before in my life. Ever. But what kind of ignorant **** is that? **** you Bioware! Is that how you treat your fans? If you think we're a renewable resource that grows on trees, think again! If you think you're making so many new fans with your current crop of games that you can treat your old fans like trash, I have a bridge to sell to you. Not that I'm fan anymore. I stopped today.

[caradoc2000]

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They've just decided to bury the legacy games for good to make way for the pure awesomeness of the new titles.
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As my High elf would say: "Six feet under and pushing up daisies"

[pecoes]

Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts--a very small percentage of total users. We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.

We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on the Neverwinter Nights forums are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing your password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435.

Aaryn Flynn
Studio GM, BioWare Edmonton
VP, Electronic Arts

Oh dear.

[zx2781]

pecoes wrote...

Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts--a very small percentage of total users. We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.

We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on the Neverwinter Nights forums are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing your password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435.

Aaryn Flynn
Studio GM, BioWare Edmonton
VP, Electronic Arts

Oh dear.

Maybe you should take back the mean things you said.

[pecoes]

Good point. I was angry and - as it turns out - probably at the wrong party. I should have done a little research before I hurled around insults. I'm willing to believe that taking the site offline was the only option under the circumstances. But I will reserve my final judgement, until we find out, if this break-in was the result of some exceptionally clever cracking or a lack of maintainance. Call me a cynic, but from what I have learned about all those break-ins in the recent past, I suspect the latter.

[caradoc2000]

Those old forums were intended to be shut down eventually, this incident gives just one more reason to do so sooner than later.

[Oblivious]

Hackers are launching a war against videogames this year. =/

[Rheia]

It's a darn shame, there was a lot of good info on the old JE forums. I wonder if there are any backups that could be brought back .

[pecoes]

You may be able to find a thing or two via the wayback machine, but don't expect too much!

http://web.archive.o...rums/index.html

A fortnight ago there also was a copy in google's cache:

http://webcache.goog...ware.com/forum/

But I expect that's gone too by now...

Modifié par pecoes, 02 juillet 2011 - 02:53 .

[aries1001]

Can the old mods for Jade Empire not be found anywhere else? I mean, there's a wiki for Oblivion, for the Witcher, for Fallout etc. made by the guy (or girl?) who created the original wiki, I think for Morrowind and Oblivion. The original modders might still have their mods for the game - so why not make a Jade Empire wiki?

Anyway, I sometimes visited the old Jade Empire forums - and not much was going on in there. Maybe a post or so every forthnigt and so. And unlike here, I couldn't answer a question which was asked say 14 days ago.

About the hacker attempt, the old forums have been taking down e.g. taken offline from puclic view. And yes, it could maybe be a sign of not maintaining the old forums well enough that they got hacked - as hackers go after the most vulnerable forums, it seems.

What is wrong with the information, we've receieved so far is that the info given out by Aaran Flynn only seems to relate to the old NWN forums, not all of the old forums. I do think that Bioware and EA could and should have given a heads up to us if they inteded to shut down the old forums completely. That way, people could have salvaged the content, mirrored it somewhere else....

[pecoes]

Sorry for the shameless plug, but most content from the old mods is included in mine. With a few notable exceptions, though. There was a russian guy who created new player characters. I'm not sure if he ever finished his mod, but I'd love to get my hands on his work - finished or not. And then there was Barney's character mod - which has been offline for some time. But other than that: You'll find all the other mods in mine. And then some...

[aries1001]

I'm sorry to hear this, pecoes, but are you not able to upload your mods anywhere else? I take it you still have them - as back up - on your computer or on a harddrive somewhere? Even if nothing vanishes from the internet, this is a truth with modifications. I have been doing some clean in my threads and links lately. And a few links have disappeared, links that I would never have thought would disappear. Clearly, the advice is to take backup, by imaging or ghosting websites that have (your) mods on them. I know, for instance, that after the death of certain person in the very old might and magic community, great lengths and risks? were taken to recover all of it, by imaging or ghosting everything. As for the russian guy, are you not able to contact him?

GameFront (earlier Filefront) seem to host mods for NWN and NWN2 as well as thew Witcher; maybe try asking there...

However, this does help you or us with all the modder knowledge now gone - let's hope the old forums come back some time...

Modifié par aries1001, 03 juillet 2011 - 05:53 .

[pecoes]

No, no, you misunderstood me. *My* mod is still there. It's the old modding knowledge and a few old mods that I'd like to access...

Click on the link in my sig to download the mod or on this one for the mod's showcase.

[aries1001]

I'm glad your mod is still there (or here) pecoes, and I can understand and sympathize with your situation not being able to get the some of the old mods. However, do you not have way of reaching out to ot contacting the other modderss? So that they can host them here?

[pecoes]

I would have to PM them via the disappeared site. That's a bit tricky.