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All Characters Accidentally Deleted in MMORPG

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  • mtalon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At least they were cool about it and gave everyone a free week.
  • justinp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"Oh *****! Ctrl + Z! Ctrl + Z!"
  • berzerk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0d'oh!
  • Mantus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1looks like the website was deleted too
  • EarthBoundX5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0LOL, OMG, I want to see this happen to WoW
  • morrisonm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sure it was mysqldump's fault ;)
  • xodex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL, if that happened to WOW
  • pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0site down
  • Casedot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0haha now that sucks, but at least they were cool about it.


  • vegask, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2delete from users where 1=1;
  • pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0im dumb /
  • Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't look at the article at work, what MMORPG was it?
  • FlyingAvatar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Umm, backup much?

    Seriously, how trivially easy is it to dump your database once in a while? :)
  • GTAcrimelord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"LOL, OMG, I want to see this happen to WoW"

    No thanks, I think this country would rather be spared a flood of class action lawsuits from a bunch of MMORPG dorks protesting that, "Now their lives are ruined forever."
  • MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0We'll show those ebayers, racking up the goods and selling them...
  • garg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2didn't he notice that deleting one character was taking VERRYYYY LONG
  • bluntman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was Vendetta Online, a space sim. It has a native linux client, check it out.
  • kaplanfx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Um I like mysql as much as the next guy, but I don't hink I would ever use it as the backend for an MMORPG. Does it even have proper transactions and stored procedures yet?
  • kinobe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  • Sferrero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If that happened to WoW.

    The countries suicide rate would increase. alot.
  • ambrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kaplanfx: yes
  • markperia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No thanks, I think this country would rather be spared a flood of class action lawsuits from a bunch of MMORPG dorks protesting that, "Now their lives are ruined forever."

    haha lives.
  • thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lol pwned
  • FlyingAvatar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ok, so I didn't RTFA.

    They did have a backup. So tell me, what's the big deal then?

    You lose a day of play time, they give you a week. Not news.
  • lazn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vendetta Online: And there was a recent backup, only progress since the backup was lost.
  • kinobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm you know it looks like a pretty fun game.

    Except that the website sucks.
  • BigDunka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hear they have a GM opening now if anybody is interested in a job. +digg
  • ShyTurtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, at least there was a back up. Ragnarok used to "rollback" the servers ALL the friggin' time. Then again, they were incompetent.
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how many characters are we talking??
  • GaryKing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"phpBB : Critical Error

    Could not obtain lastvisit data from user table"
  • KelteN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"LOL, OMG, I want to see this happen to WoW"

    Agreed.
  • earlysound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1little mini-heart attack there for a second. you joke, but if that happened to WoW... damn.
  • Googled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Link dead, mirror site http://www.mmorpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10077&newsid=44413.nyud.net:8090
  • GTAcrimelord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Well, at least there was a back up. Ragnarok used to "rollback" the servers ALL the friggin' time. Then again, they were incompetent."

    I remember someone posting about a severe rollback Ragnarok had about a year or so ago, I think it was so bad that huge amounts of people gathered their characters in a populated area and started rioting (casting AoE spells, attacking random people, etc) in an attempt to protest. I thought it was friggin hilarous judging from the screenshots the guy posted.
  • manningbc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could you imagine how many people would commit suicide if they did that to WoW? It would be an international catastrophe.
  • louiekit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, if WoW was made free for a week...*drooling*
  • Elxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, all the RPG geeks would be turned into lemmings if this happened in WoW.

    I would laugh.
  • GTAcrimelord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Yeah, if WoW was made free for a week...*drooling*"

    Oh wow, almost 4 dollars of savings!!! Yippie-Ki-Yay...
  • MarkXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it was CCP Games (they make eve-online) they would have prob. charged all accounts more money. Or, been like Oops! Here is two weeks of downtime while we install the backup.
  • Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0They had a backup the SAME DAY. Whoop ti fricking do, people lost a few hours of changes. Big deal.

    Anyhow, story reported as "Bad link", since it links to a dead page, and the article is now only available via the comments.
  • Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey, Vendetta Online supports Win, Mac and Linux. I need to check that out. I never would have known if it werent for the oops.

    Every cloud has a silver lining.
  • scabadone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This game rocks... and the creators are really hands on... the way I see it... this blunder is some good exposure for them. So check it out guys... its an awesome play.
  • DiggerT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol, i'd be pretty pissed to find all my hard effort was deleted :)
  • SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1guspaz said: "Anyhow, story reported as "Bad link", since it links to a dead page, and the article is now only available via the comments."

    Ever heard of the digg effect?

    douchebag
  • gk128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To the people talking about wanting this to happen in WoW.

    It woundn't make a difference. Blizzard must have daily if not hourly backups.
  • a1k0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not like other MMOs don't rollback their databases now and then. In my defense this was our first time. :)

    http://www.vendetta-online.com/h/news.html has the same story and like, works.
  • dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0reminds me of the early dot com days at an online retail. I needed to update a customer CC# in the database. Update customers set cc = 101023123123; changed all the customers #'s to that. doh!
  • Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lucky for the people who hadn't even played that day, free week of play, nice
  • mercury81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0fortunately they were smart enough to have backups.
  • godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha thats awesome
    although i wish it had happened in WoW
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