A hacker terrorized Guild Wars 2 for weeks and weeks. When the game’s creators finally took action, they humiliated the crap out of the dirty cheater.
They took control of the hacker’s character, stripped them naked, and made them jump to their death. Then they systematically deleted each of the hacker’s characters and banned them. Here’s how it all happened.
To hear Guild Wars 2 players tell it, a single player has been bending the rules—or snapping them over their knee, clean in two, really—to dominate the game’s large-scale World vs World PvP for three weeks. Apparently this player could deal absurd damage, teleport, and survive nigh-impossible situations, and their opponents could only grind their teeth and watch. Day in and day out, players reported, the hacker would warp into precious keeps and capture structures, all the while dispatching whoever dared get in their way. It was, to put it plainly, some ol’ bullshit.
People came to assume that Guild Wars 2 creator ArenaNet didn’t care enough to do anything about their game’s equivalent of Loki, but then they hit them with Thor’s banhammer. And they hit them hard. After fed up players posted a video of the hacker’s dirty deeds, Guild Wars 2security lead Chris Cleary finally took action. He explained in a forum thread:
“We don’t need to see it in-game, sometimes good video evidence is enough for me to track down who it was. In this case, the video was enough for me to find out who it was and take action. Thanks for the video, and to accompany your video, I give you this video of his account’s last moments.”
“Oh yah, he’s also banned.”
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Here’s the video in question, which depicts the hacker’s character leaping naked to his doom while under Cleary’s control:
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