Its an exploit with the turn in timer somehow bugged and warping. People from OC and other bot forums have looked into it, shit that got their attention just as much as it did all the OMG THERES AN EXPLOIT the games dead crowd. They just want to use it to exploit and usually know how to crack exploits like that (its what their website is designed to discuss).
It's not some officially announced feature, but every game has a minimum effective latency due to netcode and such. FFXIV's effective latency has been estimated to be 300ms, largely due to being built with consoles in mind. The game has notoriously slow client-server communication by design, especially with positional checks. You'll also notice a considerable delay between client-side actions/movement showing up for other players, which is very obvious if you ever run the game on two machines in the same room. Try landing melee attacks on a moving mob and you'll see it as well. I'm sure everyone here is aware of these things, considering how it's literally the most frequently voiced complaint about the game. See threads likethisfor more discussion.
They've forced themselves to be compared to that game by offering nothing other than what that game provides. One of this game's defining characteristics is that it's a "traditional" MMORPG that doesn't try to do anything new. What the fuck else are people going to compare it to other than the game of which, aside from the setting and a select few minor features like multiclassing and housing,every single thingin this one is a copy? Being a traditional MMORPG was one of the best things about it, but they needed to then actually imitate well instead of making every feature worse than in the game they're copying. FFXIV has nothing going for it except being new, all the gameplay features are a step back from current standards.
If we ignore the fact that SSL is not always secure, you're more or less right, but you're discounting the idea of a MITM entirely here. Why? Do you think that all FFXIV related sites are somehow immune to malware? You do remember that Rerolled had a trojan warning in an ad pane not too long ago, right?
does not require admin in any way (as stated above, and just tested by me on my current workstation, which has full UAC on). So your point of "hardly any security" is entirely moot.
I'm with you and sub'd for 90 days as I know I'll at least be playing through Xmas.
It's new. That's pretty much it. The biggest problem with WoW these days is that nothing you do is special, you're just one in a million doing the same thing as everyone else and nobody gives a flying fuck because there's nothing impressive about it. A new MMORPG is the opposite, that's why people flock to them every time. It's a chance for your accomplishments to matter and be recognized, it's a chance to do something that hasn't already been done a thousand times over.
I'm really confused what you're trying to get at. The SID is sent encrypted over HTTPS via invocation from the launcher. So a MITM couldn't intercept it unless it knows both parts of the security, which it wouldn't. How does malware on a fansite factor into this? Are we now talking about if you don't have a token and someone steals your SE login you put somewhere? As for the second part are we now saying a virus is going to open up command prompts, copy shit into a notepad and send it out?
None of your points are wrong, but there's nothing S-E or any company can do security wise if you allow a virus to run on your computer.
The session ID's are wiped every time you log in to the launcher. So if you log out and don't log back in for several days then yeah the ID would stick around until it naturally expires.
It is a fun game for a while. You reallywantto like it. At some point though you will get tired of putting up with its shit. And it has alotof shit that it makes you put up with.
Directly from that old Yoshi P post: