When your game is named Hacktag, apparently some would think this is a call for a hacking contest on our game. ;)
Yesterday we had troubles with our servers that prevented you to play Hacktag for a couple of hours, so here's the reason:
We have been hacked!
Well not a big hack, just a smart player who wanted to exploit a bug to get all unlockable items & skills. This hacktager decided to add more than 50000 unlockables to his character and ... surprise ... the servers really didn't appreciate that at all.
We were told quickly of the issue and we worked late to restablish the sanity of our servers. Now, hopefully, everything is back to normal
What have we learnt from that?
First of all, our community is really kind, full of comprehensive & patient players. They were very supportive while we were working on the servers and cheered & supported us on our Discord server. Thank you!
Secondly, it's not a secret we are a small dev team, we have a small community but even that facts given, we have to manage our servers and our tech like big companies do. This is hard, we don't have the same resources, but everyday we are improving our tech and fixing the remaining issues.
Could this happen again?
Yes! Even if we identified the cause of the issue and we are working on fix to avoid the same exploit. We already know that we can't defeat hackers... and we are not even interested to do so, and you know what? we find this quite cool... please, just don't break the game for other people!
So we will just make it less obvious for sly players to exploit our flaws, and we will fix every new bug exploit we could be aware of.
Well, that's all for now, we just wanted to tell you what happened. We hope you were not too frustrated if you wanted to play Hacktag yesterday evening with your bff, bae or your bro! That said, sorry for the inconvenience!
Note to hackers: please don't loop over 500, there is nothing more to unlock after that... for now! ;)
See ya!