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Posted - 2012.08.16 00:16:00 -
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Andrev Nox wrote:Wow :p
That article has some distortions, and some just outright madeup nonsense.
Firstly - There was no grand hacking attempt or success. :p Four days ago, an individual used a security loophole to redirect a small percentage of people browsing to our site to a fishing site. This fishing site would copy down the Blink cookie of those who visited it. The security hole was plugged almost immediately, and no harm to the site or any accounts was managed. :)
We love running Blink, and the community around it, but the one real downside is "Gamblers Regret." A few days before the shenanigans started, this person deposited 1.5b over the course of a day. He lost a few and won a few, but was so caught up in the excitement that he kept exchanging all of his wins for more credit until the only thing he successfully cashed out was a Tengu. As in most cases of Gambler's Regret, he chose to blame us for his decision to gamble that all away, and created an imposture corporation to try and scam deposits. When that was removed by GMs, he even went so far as to break state and federal laws trying (and partially succeeding) to "hack" the site. Now that that security hole is plugged, he's fishing for any other outlet that will join him in his outrage that he chose to send us isk and chose to gamble even his winnings away.
We've done our best to create a site that is fun, fair, and exciting to use - and for some people, they would rather try to scream and rage at and about us, instead of admitting that they chose to gamble more than they should have, or didn't walk away from the table when they could have.
I am definitely impressed with your site. It is well coded, looks very clean, and is super easy to use. I enjoyed giving it a chance and losing (paying) you for a great looking site. That being said, please do not insult us by claiming your site is fair!
In my experience, I played 60 blinks with a 1 in 8 chance of winning. I did not win one of them. The real odds of that happening are 0.033%! [Chance of losing = 7/8, repeated 60 times = (7/8)^60] Your site is rigged, just please don't claim it is fair. Fun and exciting, yes. Fair, No Way!
It is actually very impressive that you made a site where people just hand you their ISK for nothing in return. Your site will go down as one of the legendary scams in eve (eg. Eddie Lampert and Mordor Exuel) when you finally admit what you are doing. Perhaps people are so addicted to Blink that they will continue to deposit their iskies even after your site is widely accepted as a scam. You could have had so much more...a legitimate business that made isk (and even real money) for many years to come. Instead...you will poof into oblivion and merely be a memory to the EVE saga.
If you still claim your site is completely fair, I guess I am super lucky... one in 3,017 lucky. |