The War Z servers under repeated attacks by hackers
Hammerpoint Interactive’s controversial zombie survival shooter The War Z continues to have a tough time, with hackers attacking its servers to shut them down adding to its troubles.
The community manager Kewk revealed at the game’s official forums that various forms of malicious attempts have been made over the past few days to shut down The War Z servers.
“First we were hit with an attack that would rest [sic] our DNS IP so that you could not connect. This was solved a couple days ago early in the morning but took time to actually resolve world wide once the fix went in,” he conceded.
Much to the dismay of the studio, the hackers did not just stop there and continued to become a nuisance, this time going for DDoS attacks.
Kewk revealed that a couple of days after the game recovered from the first malicious attack, it ended up “being hit, again, with a DDoS attack on our login server. We are implementing additional DDoS protection and hope to have this resolved asap. Unfortunately with these types of attacks it is very difficult to give a good time frame of when it will be resolved.”
The community manager said that Hammerpoint Interactive has been doing everything it possibly can to remove the existing issues.
According to him, some issues have been successfully resolved already, while the studio is working actively working on resolving the remaining issues.
Consumers who purchased their copy of The War Z off Valve’s digital distribution platform Steam are the ones who seem to be running in majority of the problems.
Finding the hackers so determined to make life difficult for the developer of The War Z hardly comes as a surprise as the studio has not earned itself many fans since the release of the game on December 17, 2012.
Buyers of the game off Steam instantly realised that they had paid full money for premature version of the game, which led to a strong outcry that was completely ignored by the developer for a good two weeks, after which it finally issued an apology.
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