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Not sure why it hasn't been advertised, but to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of Unreal, the Unreal Deal Pack is 75% Off for just $10!

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Includes the following games:

Unreal Gold

Unreal Tournament: GotY Edition

Unreal 2: The Awakening

Unreal Tournament 2004: EC Edition

Unreal Tournament 3 Black

Ohhhhh, confirmed to be black! Damn, I was hoping for hot pink

And they rolled it back... someone made about $7k lol good money for a hard day of expoiting... I'm glad I did not play at all yesterday morning.

Yep, so they went with Option #2 as I expected, but luckily only back to early Sunday morning. Only affect it had on me was a profession task I had going that would have leveled the profession up, so not a huge loss.

I'll try and remember to friend every Mindflayer player when I get on later.

This week's spotlight is a game that many of you may have already played on iOS or Android devices - Nimble Quest.

If not, well it's like the classic game Snake, but with a "conga line of heroes" and enemies to defeat.

Minority? I'm sorry, but I don't expect to have a game bomb out without any advance warning for planned downtime.

I've played plenty of MMOs and any scheduled maintenance is at least blasted out over the general chat or something to that effect. That, and when trying to log in, there's usually some kind of message like "Down for maintenance, go here for details". Their forums were down for a good 30 minutes after they took the servers down as well.


As for the economy - they're going to do character-specific rollbacks and for a beta that's fine with me. The economy can be reset if/when they do a full wipe when the game isn't in beta any more.

This wasn't scheduled maintenance...obviously. They became aware of a major exploit and immediately took the game down. If they waited, even more exploiting would be done.

There is no planned wipe at the end of the Open Beta - they were going to just do a smooth transition. That is why it's important to clean it up now. There are basically three options floating around:

1. IP Ban exploiters only.

2. IP Ban exploiters and rollback everyone a few days to a time before the exploit was first used.

3. IP Ban exploiters and do a full character wipe.

They're not committing to anything yet until the learn the full extent, but I'm guessing #2 is most likely, which means for us it would essentially be like a full wipe. The reason is, from what I've gathered, it's not just the exploiters that are the problem, but that they put these exploited items into circulation, so many people are unknowingly affected.