Poll: Who here thinks xbone servers will be hacked and knocked offline on launch?

[Azdron]

Ahhhh see, let me tell you the story of how the Xbox one will be hacked. And it will, of course it will. Nobody can paint a target that big on their back and expect to get away unscathed. But it wont be at launch, oh no children. Microsoft is a software company, their main servers will be properly defended. Of course they will. The authentication packets will be properly encrypted and reasonable security measures will be in place. They wont be unhackable, not by a long shot. But secure enough to dissuade the average script kiddy.

To start with...

But then, every coblops sunkgargeleweewee dudebro will try to log in to play halo 15 and start masturbating into the latest and greatest dull gray chest high wall. And thats how it will start, at first there wont be any problems. But then as the pressure mounts over the first few days, as the call centers begin to be taken off-line with complaints and the authentication servers begin to buckle under the strain.

As the lines outside wall-mart grow with people demanding their money back, Microsoft will go into damage control. Servers with less security will be hastily added to help manage the load. Security measures will be removed in a desperate attempt to ease the pain. Everything will be spent in service of the service and security will become a mere afterthought.

And then? when Microsoft has finally shown their soft scaly underbelly? thats when lulsec 2.0 or or 4chan or any of a thousand other predators that exist in our vast web will strike. Why? because the tears of the ignorant and the proud are the most delicious. Because Microsoft stood up and DARED them to. Because who could resist such an opportunity?

mr captacha invites us to "question everything".

 

[TephlonPrice]

I'm sure it will happen, but considering who Microsoft works with, it won't last very long. And they deal with shit like that on a regular basis.

But all it would take is at least 3 days to a week of an outage & congrats, Microsoft is now looking at sales slumps galore.*






*It may also encourage to destroy any existence of GFWL.

 

[piinyouri]

Like a lot of others have said, it won't take a malicious hack attack to do this, I imagine the first week or so will be overloaded all on it's own and many people will not be playing their purchased game console.

 

[TomPreston]

Am I the only one more concerned with what's gonna happen 6 years from now when Microsoft turns off all those servers and all the Xbox One's ever sold in existence all turn into ginormous paperweights overnight?

I'm sure someone will hack the servers and take the internet down at some point during the Xbox One's life cycle. If they could do it with the PS3, they can do it definitely with the Xbox One. It will happen, especially with so much ill-will directed towards Microsoft right now. Very likely most consoles won't work on arrival anyway because Microsoft's servers will be flooded to the max and people won't be able to verify their machines the second they plug it in. So I expect that to happen too. The whole situation is unreliable and disastrous... but the most important and looming threat comes at the end of the console's life in my opinion.

Granted, the games will likely be ported to other consoles or saved as ROM's or backed up somehow eventually... but in the most immediate sense on that day approximately 6 years from now... what's gonna happen then? How will consumers and fans be treated by the big M?

 

[Xukog]

I'm torn,on one hand,this would mean a lot of people would not be able to use something they paid $500+ on. However,the shitstorm would be extremely entertaining.... *shrug*

 

[Dominic Crossman]

I think a hacking is certainly a possibility, and in the event that it does happen whoever's responsible will be a total douche.

I don't know. It would make a point on how going this way is an idiotic idea, imho. Plus I'll get giggles when it crashes and burns, just a side bonus.

Yeah, because fucking over thousands of people really gives you the moral high ground to make such a point... not.

As dumb as Microsoft is being, hacking their system means screwing over a large number of people, absolutely NONE of whom are behind the whole thing. As I said, douche.

It would be great for every gamer the world over including the buyers of said hardware involved if after launch the entire Xbox Live service would be down for a week and nobody could play anything.

It would make people realize what the DRM they get mixed up with actually means and who holds all the cards. (and who holds none)

Meanwhile it wouldn't matter if the same happened to the PS4, because most people could just play their games like they could during the PS3 Hack Fallout since they work Offline.

Come on, you know Annoymous or someone such as them will not be able to resist temptation, and like others have said I would laugh like hell at MS but feel sorry for the thousands of sucke- eh I mean lovely people how bought the system

 

[nevarran]

Sad poll. You people should go out and take some fresh air.

 

[RicoADF]

Yeah, because fucking over thousands of people really gives you the moral high ground to make such a point... not.

As dumb as Microsoft is being, hacking their system means screwing over a large number of people, absolutely NONE of whom are behind the whole thing. As I said, douche.

A large number of people that need to learn what a dumb choice the XBone was. Seriously as much as screwing over players can be a dick move, there are times when it's for the greater good and this is one of them. Some people need to learn what the XBone really means, and that is no server = no games. Either they learn it now or in 10-15yrs time when their turned off and all their games are taken away because "we don't support it anymore, buy the XBToo" or whatever the next one is called.

 

[BLAHwhatever]

Good possibilty for that.
A lot of things those anonymus guys could get angry about.
"Spy Kinect" and "restriction of freedom" and all tha good shit

 

[Username Redacted]

Why should they be hacked? I would assume they are going to have trouble even without extern help.

Pretty much this. I'm imagining something along the lines of a Diablo III or Sim City level failure from M$.

 

[RJ 17]

Given how they've handled everything since the XBone reveal, I'd say that wide-scale server issues would be something to be expected.

When you've got a product that everyone is certain is going to be absolute shit, and the best thing you an do to massage those concerns is either say "You'll understand how awesome it is once you buy one" while telling a good portion of the market "We specifically don't want your business if you don't have a good/stable online connection", it certainly doesn't bode well for that product.

 

[Echo136]

Anonymous wont let this go. And this is the one time that I agree with them.

And if they wont do anything it would blow my mind.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Microsoft flat out admitted they're relying on people who are uninformed about it to buy it so whoever brings down the microsoft servers will be doing those people a favor by educating them about what they bought. Besides like has been said on this forum, you vote with your wallet and people who buy the xbox one are voting for a bleak future for video games.

 

[Griffolion]

I don't think they'll be hacked. But the servers will definitely go down. But through their own incompetence.

 

[Adam Locking]

Anyone who seriously thinks Xbox Live's infrastructure will fail on launch really has no clue what the reality is. Microsoft already has a giant target on its back. It already deals with hacking attempts and DDoS attacks on a regular basis. It already operates infrastructure for clients much bigger and with much higher reliability requirements than Xbox Live.

Put simply, Microsoft is one of those companies who knows how to Run Shit?.

Tell me, if Microsoft has this magical software capabilities that make them invulnerable to DDOS attacks, hacks, viruses and everything else anon is inevitably going to throw their way, why don't they add some of this know-how into Windows and Internet Explorer, the least secure programs ever created?

Plus even if Microsoft themselves somehow wave out potential attacks, what's to stop a virus targeting the consoles themselves? Seeing as each one is going to be connected to the internet at least some of the time, runs a modified version of Windows 8 for the non-gaming capabilities, uses IE as the default browser and many games have you constantly sharing data with friends via "the cloud" this whole thing sounds like virus heaven.

and to everyone going "hack attacks are bad, it'll hurt innocent people", which situation is better: The deliberate inconvenience of a few early adopters, a reasonable proportion of which will know about the DRM, or the service breaking a few years down the line (probability says it has to happen at least once in the console's lifetime) and 10x more people, most unaware of the DRM, being affected?

 

[Something Amyss]

Remember the PSN blackout.

Which was Sony being too incompetent to fix the thing, so they pulled the plug and took a month.

Thankfully for me, it was the month after my apartment had burned down and I was sleeping on my mom's couch. No internet access means no worries if PSN is down.

Now, I do very much have faith in Microsoft's ability to suck, but we don't need to look at PSN for that. Microsoft had trouble keeping Live online back when the 360 was young basically any time there was a big game or a holiday, because they couldn't foresee more people wanting to play the new Halo, even though they knew it was a moneymaker. They...I don't know, counted on us to buy the games but not play them for a couple months?

Their claims that they can spin up virtual servers is pointless.

I voted no, because I don't think a hack will be necessary. I think Microsoft will manage to screw it up all by themselves.

The polls as if it'll be hacked or fail on launch, so I voted yes. The title is a slightly different story. In short, you should have answered yes to the poll, probably.

For the record, I additionally voted that it would be glorious. I think the only way people will learn is if they're impacted by it, so I seriously want it to go down for the benefit of consumer awareness. I don't want it to be hacked, mind. I don't want a DDOS attack. I want Microsoft to trip over their own shoelaces and then have to deal with the shitstorm their own hubris caused.

I also want to see how the apologists defend their inability to play games.

Yeah, because fucking over thousands of people really gives you the moral high ground to make such a point... not.

Comparably, yes. This is only possible, however, because Microsoft dug themselves a nice deep hole.

A big event at launch is probably better for the people being "screwed over" than inevitable problems down the line.

Anyone who seriously thinks Xbox Live's infrastructure will fail on launch really has no clue what the reality is. Microsoft already has a giant target on its back. It already deals with hacking attempts and DDoS attacks on a regular basis. It already operates infrastructure for clients much bigger and with much higher reliability requirements than Xbox Live.

Put simply, Microsoft is one of those companies who knows how to Run Shit?.

They don't show it very well, considering ow often they fuck up. They can't even "run shit" on a Double XP CoD weekend.

 

[DoveAlexa]

I don't know if they will get truly hacked day one, but from day one onwards I really think that individual people will take their consoles and hack/mod them into working offline permanently without being locked out of their games.

Of course I don't know if they'll be able to combine this with still being able to go online to play multiplayer but I can easily see people making an offline fix.

 

[thewatergamer]

Not sure but I wouldn't be surprised if they were hacked
not that it matters, if they aren't hacked they will screw up somehow

 

[luckshot]

the real question is if hacking will be necessary. look at every major game release that requires a connection to publisher servers...what happens at launch? Yeah, and now it will be the console itself