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koz wrote: »

Yes I forgot I know nothing about the world because RQ is the all knowing!

Forgive me!

QQ

No one said that.
We said you don't know about RQ and what it has going on, which you don't.

/ignore.

I think it's pretty safe to say that given the combination of an unofficial download and the attitude shown by the RQ people in this thread, not many are going to download it anyway.

If PWE did indeed approve this in advance, then they should have announced that themselves. It's very poor business practice for them to do anything else. Encouraging unofficial mirrors could kill this game before it starts, all it takes is one fool to get "approval" to host one, then add a keylogger to it, and suddenly you have a PWE approved download that is compromised.

I hope PWE gives this some thought.

ren wrote: »

I see you've never heard of an md5 hash. If the official and rq's had the same hash... wtf is the problem then.

The problem is you're counting on the masses to both know how to do that, and to go through downloading the whole client from an unofficial source in order to do so. The masses shouldn't NEED to check the md5 of their download, because it should be coming from a source they trust (the PWE site or the torrent created by PWE.)

It's totally unprofessional for PWE to approve of unofficial mirrors. If they want mirrors then I'm sure mmosite.com, mmorpg.com, filefront.com, gamershell.com, etc etc would be the way to go.

3+1 words

USE MD5 HASH NOOBS

(Md5 hash is avalible at the mmo site)
p.s. dam ren beat me to it -.-"

mystic wrote: »

If a GM could kindly erase all the ******** they've posted, and also confirm that the hashes match and that it's legit, we could be on our way. The fact that people are ruining potentially far better downloads for uninvolved players simply because they have personal issues with my guild is truly pathetic.

i'm no GM but i can provide this

Credits to MMO site

MD5 Hash: 4dd7664e8e47cd6f681728fb219d78f0
How to check the file with MD5 ? Click here
Where to download the MD5? click here

wow why dont we just move on download it if u want or ignore it if u dont want to download it

pretty basic they got ther way of proving its legit

if u dont want to test it or are insecure which you should be since no gm has posted anything confirming it to us then dont download it and quit argueing

xarfox wrote: »

There's no need to flame Rage Quit for supply everyone with another download source. I will however advise everyone to scan files that you don't download from our official download page.

So you approve of their cursing and swearing in every other post in this thread. Okay.

I didn't flame anyone. Every version of PW is or turns into a multi million dollar business. It's unprofessional to risk negaitve publicity (a scandal) just to get an already available file hosted in another location.

Telling the masses to scan files from unofficial sources does not work. Telling them to use md5 doesn't work either. Telling them "ONLY DOWNLOAD THE GAME CLIENT FROM OUR OFFICIAL PWE SITE" is about the best you can do to prevent problems. This is standard for most mmos.

Clearly PWE isn't being paranoid enough.

Now, I never said this download specifically was harmful. I said that by allowing an unofficial third party to host it with approval opens the door to just about anyone doing it, not all of which may have the same standards.

It should also be noted that while people might be tempted take a more casual stance on account security during a closed beta (since it will all be wiped anyway) this is a fallacy. Not all of the malicious code that gets distributed even targets the same game that it originates with. Some try to harvest accounts from other games, some target the usual personal and banking information, some just **** your system.

It's not worth taking chances with PWE's public image, that's all I'm saying. Well, that and it's certainly not out of necessity, there's enough sources for the game client as it is, and more official ones could easily be created with the major mmo sites.

As for this thread, it's a sign of mystic's own weakness of position that he feels the need to try and make this some vendetta between myself and RQ. The only thing I complained about here was the language and attitude being posted (inappropriately) by its members. That much is self evident.

Wow massa.....

You really have changed from PW-MY

This time I'm speechless

massamune wrote: »

Telling them to use md5 doesn't work either. Telling them "ONLY DOWNLOAD THE GAME CLIENT FROM OUR OFFICIAL PWE SITE" is about the best you can do to prevent problems. This is standard for most mmos.

severan for all noobs wrote:

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MD5 Signature or Hash or path for noodles

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An MD5 signature, also called an MD5 path or hash, and more officially a message digest, is simply a number. It's a big number (128bits, or 16 bytes, or a number somewhere between 0 and just over 10 to the 38th), that's calculated from the contents of a file. The entire file is read, the bytes combined numerically via a special algorithm and the result is the MD5 hash.

The algorithm for the calculation of that number is designed to be relatively quick to compute, and, perhaps more importantly, very unique.

What do I mean by unique? It's considered almost impossible for two different files to result in the same number being calculated as the MD5 hash. This is important because if a file changes for any reason, the MD5 hash that would be calculated from it would also be different.

Thus, publishing both a file and its original MD5 hash allows you to download a file, calculate the MD5 hash on the file you just downloaded, and confirm, or deny, that the file is correct.

I've come across noobs in my online life, but dude... you're the 1st R-Tard noob I've met