Special thanks to Wheaty for crashing WoW
Special thanks to Wheaty for crashing WoW
Do you really think that they don’t understand the severity of it? I mean, come on, large scale city raiding is prohibited because it crashes servers. Do you really think even for a second that (1) they don’t understand that a huge number of things in one small area crashes the server and that (2) this ’sploit can spawn said huge numbers of ghouls?
You do not need to nuke the server to “help to see just how broken this is” or to “see how high a priority bug this really is.” It’s obvious that doing this will crash the server, duh. You know this, I know this, they know this. We really don’t need to crash to tell them this.
It’s perfectly clear what this can and cannot do, and it really does not need a demonstration.
We know that spawning a million objects in one area crashes servers. They, the devs, know this too. You do not need to help them put two and two together. They are perfectly capable of understanding what this would do on their own.
This happening once can be overlooked. It would be exceptionally unwise for anyone else to follow suit, especially when they clearly know what they’re doing.
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