What people are saying about "Tales From The Blizzard"
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The Everything,man
10 months ago
O.M.G she turned that guy in to Justin Bieber, AAAAAHHHH!!!!!
We need Ghost Rider to save us all! kidding but no I don't like Justin Bieber at all Take care Baby...
kpX
11 months ago
It's really true about the need for authenticators. I'm a computer tech and superduper careful what I click and where I go, only game on 1 pc too. Still got hacked.
kpX
11 months ago
@shadowsfall It is possible to have both blizzard games and a ps3 you know. I do. I still don't feel the need to say anything bad about xbox or Wii owners. Go see the shrink if this need of yours keeps acting up imho.
Zan
11 months ago
I don't know... Perhaps Blizzard does it on purpose just so you buy the authenticator?
Shadow12000
11 months ago
@My psn: shadowsfall: We got my little bro a PS3 for Christmas with the Uncharted series. Experiencing the video game version of passing a kidney stone isn't all that great. Oh but hey they can make a Super Smash Bros. clone. That says...something.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
Your just envious of my platinum trophy account and all the ps3 EXCLUSIVES i own. it's ok to cry like the little bitch you are. just jump off a bridge since your broke after spending all your money on your sad virgin warcraft machine and can't afford a ps3 and experience Uncharted.
CHT
11 months ago
@The real My psn: shadowsfall: Are you a douchebag? Cause your behavior is exactly like one.
The real My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
real mature. Hiding behind my username to hide your sexuality. Your just some freak of nature with ADHD or autism or some defect like that. The mentally challenged should be thrown in the woods to fend for themselves along with socially arkward pc (gamers).
Kuari
11 months ago
@My psn: shadowsfall: Steam has over 25 million total users... pretty close to the XBox Live numbers at least. Researching your point before making them is a smart thing to do.
Gabe Newell
11 months ago
I'm sorry mr.shadowfall. But combine the user base of all PC gaming services such as Steam, Origin, GOG, Older games being tracked through Xfire and casual game sites such as POGO and Facebook then you'll notice that PSN's numbers are actually not so impressive in comparison.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
piss off counter-douch. compare the numbers of steam users to those of xbox live and psn. check and mate.
Kuari
11 months ago
Authenticators add a nice layer of security, but Blizzard has been treating them as the first layer rather than doing their job and securing things on their side. The authenticators don't even work against certain forms of hacking. Diablo seems to have the same session security flaw that Rift did.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
OK mr. bellics retarded offspring. If they used PCs to create Uncharted and Killzone why are they not on your shitty dying platform? I think your full of shit. Developers giving away free stuff? They are not communists. You hacked and pirated all those free downloads. pc gamers pirate everything.
Niko Bellic@LibertyCityOnline
11 months ago
also pcs have let you download new content and mods since decades before the 360 and ps3. your just getting charged top dollar for a small fraction of what pc gamers have been getting for free for years now. back in the day developers rewarded you with free content for buying their games.
Niko Bellic@LibertyCityOnline
11 months ago
@My psn: shadowsfall : you do realize all console software was developed on computers right? sony did not just typed in some code into existing ps2s to create the first ps3 prototype's software and OS out of thin air. game devs use pcs and dev consoles to create new console games.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
Your just angry because no one gives a shit about pcs and they have no exclusives. Uncharted and Killzone innovated shooters and gaming forever and your missing out on it because game developers now develope games on the consoles for the consoles. the 360 and ps3 created downloads for games.
Goodnight forever!
11 months ago
Dear Mr. My psn: shadowsfall
Unlike basement dwellers like you, who got a PS3 from their mothers, sophisticated, working individuals can afford both a console and a PC. The simple fact you could not conceive this reality makes your retarded.
Juan
11 months ago
Mr. My psn: shadowsfall, I think it may be you who is inbreed. My IQ has gone down 30% from reading your post alone.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
Enjoy your dead pc gaming jedi master cocksucker. Does pc have Uncharted, Halo and Froza? i think not. pc gaming is for basement virgins like that one warcraft southpark! you and your little inbreed brother are going to die alone in a basement spending 800 dollars a month for upgrades while im bangi
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
You little brother was a retard and a fag.Im glad i kicked his ass off psn. Do th right thing and just throw his ass in a foster home so he can get beat up everyday like the mentally challenged queer he is. he told me about his autism. he and the rest of them should be put down from birth.
Jedi Master Zoiberg
11 months ago
My psn: shadowsfall < People like this guy is why i'm happy my brother is playing over steam instead. Infinitely more safe with the custom privacy settings and the fact we're always playing the same game together.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
You little brother was a retard and a fag.Im glad i kicked his ass off psn. Do th right thing and just throw his ass in a foster home so he can get beat up everyday like the mentally challenged queer he is. he told me about his autism. he and the rest of them should be put down from birth.
11 months ago
Lawl I've only ever got hacked once, don't need no lame authenticator. And it doesnt work, friend of mine still plays WoW with that crap and still got hacked. Protip: Don't Play Blizzard games if you don't want to be hacked.
Jedi Master Zoiberg
11 months ago
Yeah.... i think i remember a "shadowsfall" that scammed by kid brother over that ps3 service. Perfect opportunity to bring my brother over to the dark side that is pc gaming. Now he uses steam for online games and GOG.com for single player games. All GOG games are backed up on my external drive.
scammed on psn
11 months ago
shadowsfall is a fucking scammer. i can confirm a handful of accounts he's stolen smackndr, rockdraco, rapturesassassin, nickepic12, scotch18, gears_allbee, alexisrocks223, USA-for-Kalle, southparking and many others.
My psn: shadowsfall
11 months ago
Greetings from socal. I am willing to give you 200 free games for your psn login. I am not responsible for any charges to your account. Check out my profile to see my selection. However you will need to let me go into your account first then after the first week you may have 15 minutes on mine.
11 months ago
So...one thing I don't understand.
Is there only one kind of Blizzard authenticator? Or are there separate ones for different games? Would I be able to use the one I originally got for playing WoW when they first came out be able to be used if I were to buy Diablo III? Sorry for the bother.
Obby
11 months ago
This just in, Blizzard is requiring an authenticator for the auction house.
Pay to get paid. Ha.
Seirei
11 months ago
Joe you do know that an authenticator won't help you a bit when someone steals your session?
You can't do jack about it and it's the most used hacking method in Diablo 3 so far. So please stop this crap, yes it's safer, but it won't help you if someone gets a holf of your session.
Well, about that...
11 months ago
@wkz, there is a one word cure for cancer that will make you immune to any future occurrences: death.
Devil Dan
11 months ago
This comic made me install a authentificator. I don't want to be a green blob. BLOORG
Talderas
11 months ago
@wkz
What an authenticator does is simply weed out a lot of simpler attack vectors that people are inclined to fall for or be simply unaware of. In essence, the authenticator raises the costs of hacking above the cost effective level for the majority of those who are doing it.
Azariel
11 months ago
ps: thanks blizzard to do so much [censure] with your games, I safe my money since wow LK
Azariel
11 months ago
blizzard sells the accounts to goldseller, they had ads for them sites during a day on official forums...
just to sell their fake security key and make more money before you'll be hacked again, and again,and again, and again, and...
Ogrebushi
11 months ago
@Juan: I agree. Blizzard makes this easier and easier for me by making their games crappier and crappier.
with so many better games out there to be had, There's plenty of alternatives.
wkz
11 months ago
( PS: my last comment? BOTH at the pro-"Get an authenticator, be IMMUNE!!" camp and against-"HA!! BLIZZARD SUX BALLS, I DID XXXX AND STILL GOT HAXORZ!!" camp... )
wkz
11 months ago
Also, saying "I did X and so I never got hacked" is stupid... hacking is a word that actually covers an insanely wide spectrum of angles and attacks.
Much like saying "cure for cancer", you'll be laughed at if you think you're immune when you do ONE thing only.
wkz
11 months ago
Lamie
11 months ago
BTW, Queen Chrysalis is based off one of the many depictions of Lamias.
Thus, we are one and the same.
Lamie
12 months ago
Nope
Never been hacked. Besides, "hacked" is not the right term here. While there are always flaws in security, I'm not certain Blizzard freely lets people walk in and out of their databases.
Q
12 months ago
To add to what Kaz said, when I got hacked in WoW, it took them 3 days to give me back my account with everything that was stolen from me...and more. Apparently, the gold the hacker got from selling all my stuff was given back to me as well as my stuff so I got 12 000 free gold by being hacked.
Changeling
12 months ago
@Lamie: Are you mad because you got hacked and not me? :3
@ChaZcaTriX Go away disgusting brony, changelings existed way before your stupid cartoon
Changeling
12 months ago
I play D3 and used to play WoW, no authentificator, never been hacked.
Problem unlucky fag? Btw if you got hacked it's your own fault, deal with it ;)
Zacsi
12 months ago
Or you could always just not play Blizzard games since they went to corporate money grabing by implementing such a system in the first place.
And play plenty of other games. Like Torchlight 2 or Path of Exile
Yothatsracist
12 months ago
Post semi related due to comic description.
Apparently Asia doesn’t have the internet and don’t know English “facepalm”. nerfnow home of future Anders Breivik worshipers. and if you think I'll replay to your post have another “facepalm” for the road :).
Alex
12 months ago
@Gakuno
I heard such things can get you banned for (supposedly) being a hacker's twink.
Gakuno
12 months ago
@Kaz
One game I used to play, I got an alert my account security was compromised. I logged on immediately, only to find out my inventory was full of awesomeness. There was a note (you could write notes in that game, it becomes and item and you could trade it) saying "No thanks needed."
Kazmohdim
12 months ago
Aside from having to go through tons of steps to get my account back... being hacked was the best thing ever happened in WOW.
I logged on to have 100,000 gold, and stacks upon stakcs of mats to sell for another 10,000 gold.
Alex
12 months ago
Is there a common name for Farmville, Travian, WoW, EVE, Diablo3 and TF2? I think it's all MMO-s, because they involve massively amount of people playing with each other.
Dom
12 months ago
I would agree...
...Unfortunately, there are ways for hackers to bypass authenticators entirely. Diablo 3 is a gold mine for them, too. I mean, it's not a MMO, it's online at all times, it has real money involved...
3265
12 months ago
@Crysalim:
If you need to go have a testing gig at blizzard to figure out how an authenticator works, you are retarded and need to learn to use wikipedia, dumbfuckhead
Information Ant
12 months ago
http://daeity.blogspot.ca/2011/02/profit-from-blizzard-authenticators.html
And more info on protection here: http://daeity.blogspot.ca/search/label/security
Rosen
12 months ago
@noko: Stop looking for the blizz consipracy. For every person who is pc smart and avoids dodgy websites there will be a dozen people who think just looking at a gold selling site won't hurt and get themself logged via the latest hack/vulnerability
Huttj
12 months ago
@noko
Risk vs. Reward, ease of turning hacked accounts into $$, and supply of people who aren't careful with their information because "it's just a game."
noko
12 months ago
@Stop being stupid: so noone targets credit card companies? or paypal passwords? stealing imaginary gold is surely lest rewarding, why hackers are not targetting them?
Sure there are more hackers in blizzard games but I don't think blizzard is innocent here
Olavo
12 months ago
I did the right think and played the game with a friends account, the game is good(Never played older diablo), it gives you very little customization settings. I would pay 15-20 dollars for it.
Phil
12 months ago
Never got hacked playing Panzer General 2 and that game is much better than everything Blizzard has ever released, combined. Just saying that sometimes the older and simpler games are better.
AEIOU
12 months ago
You gotta be joking about the authenticator. Even with one an account is too easy to hack. The true tip is to never play public in D3.
Rosen
12 months ago
Logging into D3 now I just realised how most people are being got, constant gold selling spam with web address's. Nothing better than getting curious people to visit your site, selling them gold, keylogging them and taking it all back.
Rosen
12 months ago
@Crysalim: Strong passwords dont matter, they exploits vulnerabilities in peoples pc to infect with keyloggers.
It's big business and they pull out all the stops
Stop being stupid
12 months ago
@Meh: Their security is better than a lot of other people, it's just more people target a more popular game.
Authenticators are free on your phones and only cost money to ship to you for a physical one.
Meh
12 months ago
Blizzard has a pretty lax approach to security it seems. Emails aren't protected, and there currently isn't a password lock out after x amount of failed logins with DIII at the moment. It seems like a business move to peddle their authenticators at the expense of their customers account security.
Crysalim
12 months ago
hahhaa..I've had a few friends succumb to this. It makes me appreciate my literally impossible to guess strong password; incidentally, I have been fortunate enough to get testing gigs at Blizzard, and I know how the authenticator works. It really is helpful, and if you're afraid, it will protect.
Goik
12 months ago
Got hacked on wow today, for the 4th time on my life and on other pc than the one from those other 3 times, no one had my password. i dont have an autenticator. =/
@Demetrio
12 months ago
If a brute force attack on a good password was possible - then it would be entirely Blizzard's fault.
Demetrio
12 months ago
@Pierrot: I mistook the name, it is not sql injection, I forgot the name of this attack, it is when a list of passwords is automated to be tryied to logon on ur account.
ChaZcaTriX
12 months ago
@Shieldman
Read my comment just before yours. If the database was dumped - the password length increases resistance against brute force pick (up to 16~128 symbols usually); unique passwords will be a real pain to decipher.
ChaZcaTriX
12 months ago
The only security issue of Blizzard's games is the amount of paying users - it's just a very big, fat target attracting phishers and malware developers.
And well, the more overall users - the more idiots among them, thus the outrageous "accounts hacked" numbers.
Pierrot
12 months ago
@ChaZcaTriX I was getting at the fact that Demetrio believes that a SQL injection targets individuals rather than an entire database
Shieldman
12 months ago
@demetrio Yeah, I literally did a five-minute search into SQL injection, and it doesn't matter if your password is "drowssap" or the first twenty pages of the Odyssey translated into Esperanto and scrambled.
(Well, maybe that would help. That would be pretty damn hard to type in.)
ChaZcaTriX
12 months ago
@Pierrot even if the extract-via-injection was possible, nobody (but Sony) stores their passwords in plain text.
They're stored as salted hash and the original passwords are very, VERY hard to retrieve from this data.
Pierrot
12 months ago
@demetrio because If you do, you'd know that a gibberish password wouldn't protect you more than a password thats 3 characters long.
Demetrio
12 months ago
@Yalichenta: u might be right, but I would like to take any kind of risk, I have a good ammount of wealth at my wow account and I'm making a good ammount at diablo, 'prevention is better than cure', so I prefer to have a 'gibberish' password that I'm sure that SQL injection will not work.
Unnamed
12 months ago
Probably true Drakon, but I think you could remove the "being hacked" from that sentence and it'd still be true, judging from youtube comments anyway.
Drakon
12 months ago
@Unnamed: To be fair, most people being hacked *are*, as you put it, "a mouth-breathing phishing-link clicking moron".
Unnamed
12 months ago
Well of course. But I don't, I don't click phishing links (or ANY links actually) and I have zero viruses. I'd never claim everyone who gets hacked is completely blameless, but not all of them are at fault in any way.
Pierrot
12 months ago
I was pretty surprised at how creative some phishers get.
but I still believe that some people who get hacked are at fault when they use the same user/pw for everything.
Unnamed
12 months ago
OK, so it is b.net at fault. I never claimed Blizzard was alone in the problem, nor that it was purposeful, I just find it irritating that people believe everyone being hacked is a mouth-breathing phishing-link clicking moron, because they themselves haven't been hacked.
Pierrot
12 months ago
I'm not obsessed with thinking it's the individuals fault.
I just think a lot of people here are misinformed about what has happened in the past.
Pierrot
12 months ago
With other things such as b.net/paypal etc.
That's just one example of something like this happening in the past. It's happened to multiple websites with login details such as fansites And not everything would happen straight away either, the hackers could just gather up a large sum of details
Unnamed
12 months ago
During the switch there were multiple huge threads of people with a similar problem. I don't know why you're so obsessed with thinking it must be individuals at fault. I don't think Blizzard purposefully leaked passwords, just their support page was compromised.
Pierrot
12 months ago
It's not purely logical.
There are multiple ways to lose your account, such as forums being hacked. Markeedragon being an example, had their forum database compromised, yet nobody tried to access the forum accounts from the database. Why? because they were trying to match the account emails
Unnamed
12 months ago
It would seem that everyone suddenly being hacked, after never being hacked before the switch would mean that Blizzard is at fault. This is purely logical. I should note that no other companies other than Blizzard feel the need to sell account security.
Pierrot
12 months ago
I've had more than 30 people on my list who weren't hacked during the time b.net switched over, so your evidence is anecdotal and could be a coincidence that half your list was hacked.
not every person who has been hacked is because blizzard has been hacked
Pierrot
12 months ago
It does not mean that blizzard was hacked
It's fairly easy to set up bots to just go through account details and strip everything off the character (as documented by the video i linked at the bottom)
Unnamed
12 months ago
You don't understand. There WERE mass hackings after the battle.net switch. I only have about 18 people in my friends list. More than half (all with access to their guild bank) were hacked. This included two of the other officers in my guild, which had four total. The last one had an authenticator.
Pierrot
12 months ago
@unnamed I don't see why people think blizzard are the ones who get hacked when you as an individual is hacked.
If blizzard got hacked, wouldn't you think more than a few people would lose their characters/items? It's kind of stupid to assume that they wouldn't protect their servers.
Unnamed
12 months ago
I only got hacked once, on my WoW account.
It was just after Blizzard switched to battle.net rather than whatever they did before. I did a search with four different antivirus programs and found nothing. Same happened with 10 other people I knew who never had viruses. Blizzard needs securer servers
Pierrot
12 months ago
Me
12 months ago
I got hacked multiple times before the authenticators came onto the market. Bought one, never got hacked again.
Blizzard and every game they come up with is still a piece of junk though.
Heh
12 months ago
*** add on read below
This makes keylogging nearly impossible, since it's not typed in correct order. I used different info for every website/email/forum/Chara. Not to mention this laptop had no visted ANY websites at ALL. I literally popped D3 installed it and played, and yup hacked.
Heh
12 months ago
Everyone calls us idiots. I would like to throw out somthing. I was hacked, yes and until this i never knew an authenticator existed (great advertising there)
I was on a reformatted laptop, with a new password every week that i type in a mixed 3 part system, and moved with the mouse.
MuthSera
12 months ago
He restored my character of course, but it's really no stretch of the imagination to imagine blizz is a buntch of money hungry fuckwits who are eventually going to get caught, and some folks might be doing some jail time if and when they do. ;p
Everything blizzard touches is fail, btw.
CM
12 months ago
@Huttj
Random-character password, stored in KeePass on a USB stick, and copy-pasted when used. One password per thing. It's about as safe as it gets.
MuthSera
12 months ago
... So I spoke with the blizz rep who said I should buy an authenticator. I told him I believed blizzard was responsible for not only rampant gold farmers being about, blizz getting a cut of course as more accounts are bought, but also are responsible for the hacking pandemic to sell authenticators.
MuthSera.
12 months ago
.... And that my account had been re-activated using a trial extension, and that it had been used for gold farming or some bullshit. Ect. I found it impossible to believe. I've never been hacked before, and I'd done nothing to expose a vulnerability......
MuthSera
12 months ago
Look. Authenticators, and Blizzard are both bullshit. I had my account hacked once, as an example. I dont log onto fan sites. I don't respond to blizz emails at all. I even stop playing WoW. 3 months later, I recieve an email saying I'm hacked...
Otakutaylor
12 months ago
Huh, how coincidental. I just found out I was hacked yesterday and I'm waiting for a rollback right now.
Shing
12 months ago
I played WoW for a couple of years without an authenticator and I never got hacked. Not downloading suspicious files goes a long way I guess.
Jeffrey
12 months ago
I played wow for years and years with no authenticator and I only got hacked once last year and they gave me all my stuff back in two hours.
An authenticator seems like an almost useless annoyance.
E
12 months ago
Here are the number of threads of hacked Diablo 3 accounts on blizzards own forums.
Friday 8th__36,047 = 5,049 (EU) + 30,998 (US) Friday 1st__23,802 Friday 25__14,683 = 2,114 (EU) + 12,569 (US) Note these are THREADS not posts.
WhiteZORA
12 months ago
I don't understand why my blizzard account would be a prey more than other games or amazon account.
Mike
12 months ago
I am just going to say this once.
It's about keyloggers. Unsucure systems are an open book. Also... most virus scanners WILL NOT find keyloggers. Also... never have your Ingame name be the same as your account name. Thats like asking to get hacked.
Yalichenta
12 months ago
Demetrio -> a very strong password don't have to be total gibberish, just a combination of 3+ words (or acronym) and 1-2 ponctuation marks is usually really good, and also easy to remember.
(ie "CorrectHorseBatteryStaple!", adapted from http://xkcd.com/936/ )
Dark Wonderer
12 months ago
I wonder if my D3 can still be hacked as I play solo 90% of the time, the other 10% being with a few IRL friends.
Demetrio
12 months ago
This used to be my last password, and I change it every week, of couse I cant record in my memory something like this, so I put it into some folder, notes, etc, with a random name and crtl+c ctrl+v the password, with this tecnique u can also avoid keyloggers
Querzis
12 months ago
@Dook every computer game can be hacked. If you got games that didnt get hacked, its cause you were lucky/careful or because they were single player game. No sense in hacking those.
Demetrio
12 months ago
Some hackers already tryied to hack me multiple times and I dont have an authenticator, how I know that? because the error 403 (too many tries) is pretty common to me. The hint to block their access, is to create a really REALLY STRONG password, like that: @:/+cY#s7~t#Y6RLzW$JV
Andrew Hall
12 months ago
Reading some of the comments here, some of y'all deserve to get hacked and raped right through your pants.
Chaos
12 months ago
I'm not paying $6.50 for account security because Blizzard can't fucking do it themselves.
AHAHAHAHA FAGGOT
12 months ago
I've been playing Starcraft 2 ever since it came out without an authenticator. Come at me bro.
Yeah...
12 months ago
I play WoW without an authenticator...When I was hacked I ended up getting more Gold and my stuff wasn't even touched.
I don't know anout D3
12 months ago
I didn't play it and, God, I really doubt I will ever feel bad enough to try it out. But after three years in WoW without authenticator, I am yet to be hacked.
Pierrot
12 months ago
Authenticator which does not work for diablo 3.
Public game session spoofing has been fixed since 2 weeks ago too.
Pierrot
12 months ago
The hacker also states the blizzard can't be hacked because their security is bulletproof, so Dook is wrong on that part.
Authenticators do protect you. Nobody has been hacked with a mobile/physical authenticator (people claim that they have one but they really don't, or are using the phone/sms
Pierrot
12 months ago
You guys all seem misinformed about authenticators and hacking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NUQTATy5dc&feature=g-all-lsb Markeedragon interviewed a botter who gives insight on how people are "hacked" (around 20min or so) but tldr - stop using the same user/email/pw for every website
Dook
12 months ago
When a game or account system gets hacked BAD, I simply stop using it. I have no reason to trust it anymore. There's still plenty of good games for me to play, so it's no big loss.
BBYiffo
12 months ago
It's funny. More accounts are actually getting stolen with authenicators. IF you play a session with a random. There is a chance the person used a tool to get some kind of seed from the authenticator. It actually made it faster.
nofather
12 months ago
You give your credit card info to someone for them to keep why would you think it'd be safe? They have no need to heighten security, people will go ahead and resubscribe when they get their new credit card.
What that guy said
12 months ago
«No matter what don't, I repeat, DO NOT play Diablo or WoW.» Period. :)
Huttj
12 months ago
@CM The issue is mainly password reuse. Used same password on a fansite, or even for a different thing entirely? Might have been compromised. The authenticator provides a layer of security if your e-mail/password combo is compromised for any reason, be it password sharing, keylogger, phishing,etc
CM
12 months ago
Considering my password is too complex to remember and just short enough to fit in the system, I think I'm probably safe.
Dome
12 months ago
Never ever PAY for a Authenticator. They are worthless and can be worked around. Authenticator basically just makes you 5% more secure... not any more secure then someone without one.
Latino-Freak
12 months ago
Such...a...broken...English...agh...
(It wouldn't hurt as much if I weren't a teacher of English X'D) 12 months ago
I bought mine mainly for the pet but ended up getting my father one too. He had spent WAY more time upgrading his character then I had and looked a bit more shiny then I standing there.
12 months ago
In first hand experience those little 6.50 plastic things can take a major beating. Lets just say I forgot mine in a pants pocket a few weekends ago and it ran through the washer AND dryer and came out like nobodies business.
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