Client Satisfaction versus "Security"

[Asphodan]

So right now, we have people getting really upset about their authentication issues. I have to literally babysit my computers due to simply not knowing when one bot will decide to kill itself, and that is hurting income.

I understand that the dev job is not easy, nor is it simple. But paying money for something and not getting it (Paying for an effective bot, getting a crippled bot) is bad. Having to lock multitudes of threads every day of people's complaints isn't good PR, either.


What if, as a temporary fix, you pushed a build that allowed players to bypass Auth once they have authenticated once in the past 24 hours? Or just have servers always return a True, or something.

A lot of these issues seemed to stem from moving more data to server side than client side; give the client some more authority until the server is ready to handle the burden.

 

[wajke]

Oh yes, because having Authentication servers always returning a true... wouldn't that destroy the whole purpose of.. I don't know, AUTHENTICATION?

 

[Asphodan]

Oh yes, because having Authentication servers always returning a true... wouldn't that destroy the whole purpose of.. I don't know, AUTHENTICATION?

I dunno, I'd say reading the whole post would properly explain.

I'll point out the key word, though, for your ignorant little brain: Temporary.


For, I don't know, a week now ... People have been complaining. It's a very bad time for people to be browsing HonorBuddy forums, wondering if they should get into botting. Nothing but complaints.

If Authentication, the biggest problem, wasn't an issue. . . The loudest crowd would simply get quiet.
"Tilemap Null!" is fixed by just hitting Start again. Suddenly getting an invalid session in the middle of the night, or simply being unable to log back into a crashed bot.. That's considerably more inconvenient.

 

[exdeus]

I dunno, I'd say reading the whole post would properly explain.

I'll point out the key word, though, for your ignorant little brain: Temporary.


For, I don't know, a week now ... People have been complaining. It's a very bad time for people to be browsing HonorBuddy forums, wondering if they should get into botting. Nothing but complaints.

If Authentication, the biggest problem, wasn't an issue. . . The loudest crowd would simply get quiet.
"Tilemap Null!" is fixed by just hitting Start again. Suddenly getting an invalid session in the middle of the night, or simply being unable to log back into a crashed bot.. That's considerably more inconvenient.

and for your little brain to : it's not temporary,it's not always, it's often....and random....

 

[rbz]

Oh yes, because having Authentication servers always returning a true... wouldn't that destroy the whole purpose of.. I don't know, AUTHENTICATION?

And what is the purpose of that? Is that purpose worth more than people being able to use what they paid for?