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[SofaJockey]

I've been enjoying the chest opening weekend community challenge. It injected some much needed positivity. Of the platforms PS4 have been progressing best, followed by XB1 and PC (360 and PS3 have a lower target and are progressing well too).

Then at around 8pm PST, PC progress leaps from 46,000 to 250,000 (goal completion) in about 5 minutes. Surely down to a hack?

I'm not blaming PC players (99.99% not involved in this) but can we conclude that it is pointless to include the PC platform in the community challenge portion of the weekend events?

I see no reason why the victory chest should be offered either.

This is not the world's most important issue and I'm not encouraging a platform war on this thread, but why set a challenge for the PC platform if that challenge is pointless?

 

 

EDIT:

 

I was considerably more peeved when I wrote the above section than I am now.

My reaction was 'those PC cheaters again'.

That was mean and presumptive of me, so I'm sorry now I put that in the OP.

 

I do hope the PC players are not penalised (even if it is a hack) and this turns out to be a bug or data issue.

 

Taking PC out of the community challenge should only be a step of very last resort,

the challenge is more fun with them along.

[HowYouSoGudd]

I find it amusing how everyone thinks it was a player that hacked. Given the state of things, wouldn't surprise me if it was another blunder of bioware.

[Eelectrica]

Prove it's not a glitch on Biowares end.

[SofaJockey]

It's quite right that if the situation is corrected, that would be fine. I don't think assuming a hack vs a BioWare bug is an unreasonable assumption on PC. There are plenty of pointless leaderboards on PC.

[Kenny Bania]

I'd still give them the chest, but I'd punish them by releasing another patch for PC.

[SofaJockey]

I suppose the PC players are beta testing patches for console players, so they are performing a service.

Either way, it would be great if BioWare can set the clock back or advise what happened.

[BeardyMcGoo]

There is also no evidence of foul play other than the amount of chests looted in a short period. While I do think there is certainly a possibility that it was a glitch or a hack, I think that we should wait for a more official investigation before making a conclusion.

But what is the internet without jumping to conclusions?

[BeardyMcGoo]

I, myself, prefer to live by reason and logic.

This is egregious!

[wolfhowwl]

DELETE THIS THREAD

[Stinja]

IF it was a hack, punish all PC players by no chest 

 

Peer pressure and no reward may encourage them to play it properly next time. 

 

The best solution would be to revert to 46,000 + legit openings, and continue from there; but i doubt that will happen, as Bioware only works weekdays apparently...

[SofaJockey]

DELETE THIS THREAD

 

Perhaps someone could hack it 

 

On topic:

 

The only people who can have any chance of knowing what happened are BioWare.

I don't think a hack is an unreasonable first thought, but of course we should be open to it not having been.

Time will tell.

 

It certainly wasn't because PC players opened 200,000 chests in 5 minutes.

[Eelectrica]

I think we'd all like to know what actually happened.
A server hack means bioware have a little more to worry about than a digital loot chest full of items that don't actually exist.

[Black Mambo]

Weren't all the chests info being saved and updated server-side? If so then EA needs to get better and secure servers. Although I highly doubt that someone could hack an EA server for the whole community just for a damn chest LOL!
But it certainly is extremely weird to see the challenge being done already. I was hoping to do a few more(around 20-30) PuGs to contribute to it, well I'll just get to grinding now.

[Jane_Shepard]

Hi

 

It's not because there is 200k in 5 mn, someone has hacked the challenge

 

If the update has bugged and was stuck at 46000 for a while and then after some time, the update work, you will see the change to 46k to 250k in 5 mn but that was not done in 5 mn

So it is a bit early for yell about hacker

 

Anyway about the chest, on Inquisition Hq, for both event (for the group and the community one), the reward is commandation chest and not victory chest

[nranola]

If the community results on PC was hacked, I'd suggest a rollback of sorts, so the rest of us who legitimately want to enjoy the weekend challenge can do so in peace. I don't see why all PC users should be punished for the actions of one person.

[ErtosiAngel]

I'm more inclined to think that it looked like the total suddenly spiked because it wasn't being displayed in real time. Much like the leaderboards, the data is only periodically collected, recounted, and then displayed.

[NRieh]

Had I played more during the prestige bug last week, I'd have quiet a number of 'spare' points. So that eventual syncing might make me look like a cheater.

I'm not saying that this was not intentional, but there are many reasons why the server-side numbers might or might not change.

 

Punishing all the players for someone's  crime is a bad idea, I'd rather have the counter reset to the latest 100% honest values, and they'd better do it now, while we still have some time.

[Storm_Changer]

I'm more inclined to think that it looked like the total suddenly spiked because it wasn't being displayed in real time. Much like the leaderboards, the data is only periodically collected, recounted, and then displayed.

 

This, honestly. If that isn't the case, a rollback would be in order I suppose.