Maybe we should send a message to GOA?

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:53 pm

what a coincidence - Xest you know the way you were saying someone got into the system before? Is this the incident:

http://rapidshare.de/files/4859926/..._emain.wmv.html

;p

Reported here of course:

http://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?p=2454895#post2454895

Post by **Xest** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:24 pm

I don't see why my argument could be more flawed. I never implied anything whatsoever about where or how often you go on holiday. I was saying that peoples impressions of things depend on whether or not they are on holiday. Maybe most countries have worse service than the UK; certainly France can be diabolical if you are an English speaker.

Well you made it sound like you were suggesting that I only thought the US offered better customer service just because I was on holiday, my response is that that isn't the case because I've been on holiday elsewhere yet not been pleasantly suprised by the service, hence disproving that there's any link between me going on holiday and my view of customer service whilst I'm on holiday

Sharkith wrote:what a coincidence - Xest you know the way you were saying someone got into the system before? Is this the incident:

http://rapidshare.de/files/4859926/..._emain.wmv.html

]http://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthre ... ost2454895[/URL]

Yep that's the one

I'm guessing it was before your time? If so then I should let you know that the real visible results of the hack itself only happened for a night or so whilst the people doing it spawned various high level mobs in emain. Of course, one night with that kind of issue isn't too bad, we could deal with that.

What really was annoying was GOA's response to what happened that night, iirc the servers came down for a couple of days and when they came back up. Following that GOA then decided to reset everyone's passwords (which is fair enough) but of course, in true GOA fashion it took GOA like 2 weeks to e-mail everyone out there passwords which, as Cyfr pointed out recently elsewhere is odd seeing as spammers manage to chuck out a few million e-mails a day

On top of that there was then the issue of people who didn't have uptodate e-mail addresses not receiving their new passwords and hence losing their accounts, or if they'd traded accounts (which to be fair on GOA is against their terms) their pass maybe e-mailed to the old owner and in some cases people lost accounts that they had purchased. If you were unfortunate enough to lose access to your account because of this you had to contact GOA and have the passwords sent you via snail-mail or some such, all in all leaving some people without their accounts for an entire month, even though they'd paid their subs. It was just another case of GOA making a bad situation worse

Guinnessrules · Post by **Guinnessrules** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:50 pm

Xest wrote:Following that GOA then decided to reset everyone's passwords (which is fair enough) but of course, in true GOA fashion it took GOA like 2 weeks to e-mail everyone out there passwords which, as Cyfr pointed out recently elsewhere is odd seeing as spammers manage to chuck out a few million e-mails a day

Well, i bet the ad-spammers don't have to deal with OT............
I blame the bastids that made OT for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But to be serious, sending out spam-mails and passwords is a totally different thing. GOA had to send unique emails to everyone of us seperatly. The spammers just adds shitloads of email adresses in the send-list. Guess goa could have made it in a few hours if they had given all of us same passy......

Post by **Xest** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:32 pm

Guinnessrules wrote:Well, i bet the ad-spammers don't have to deal with OT............
I blame the bastids that made OT for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But to be serious, sending out spam-mails and passwords is a totally different thing. GOA had to send unique emails to everyone of us seperatly. The spammers just adds shitloads of email adresses in the send-list. Guess goa could have made it in a few hours if they had given all of us same passy......

Wouldn't be hard to automate it with random passwords tbh

Briannon · Post by **Briannon** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:13 am

Sharkith wrote:what a coincidence - Xest you know the way you were saying someone got into the system before? Is this the incident:

http://rapidshare.de/files/4859926/..._emain.wmv.html

]http://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthre ... ost2454895[/url]

Eh?

All I get is an ad for a file download service. Am I missing something here?

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:31 am

Briannon wrote:Eh?

All I get is an ad for a file download service. Am I missing something here?

Briannon dear - try reading the bit that says "You want to download a file. Please scroll down to choose FREE or PREMIUM-download."

Try clicking on free download and then you will be put in a queue after a bit the file will appear for download..... right click and well you know the rest....

The soundtrack is funny and the video - well I still laugh at it.