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@Mr_Skeleton said:

I feel really bad down voting a game :(

You shouldn't. Many games (most of them, in fact) are very clearly not up to the level of quality we expect. There's a lot of really bad XBLIG games trying to make it through Greenlight and they aren't going to succeed, nor should they.

Guys, don't get excited. This is Interplay. This means nothing. No game will get made, and if it does, it will have nothing to do with anything relating to the original Black Isle studio.

And now, Microsoft will try to say that it failed because people don't like flight sims anymore, instead of the much more obvious answer that it failed because Microsoft Flight was a poorly managed piece of trash with an awful "micro" payment structure.

There's really nothing WRONG with Windows 8. The Metro UI can be closed and ignored completely. But the problem is, beyond that, it's just Windows 7 again with only a small handful of really tiny usability enhancements. Why should I spend $100+ for that? I don't think 17-bit is making a very smart move by teaming with microsoft and locking Skulls to Windows 8 when it's a completely inessential OS. There isn't any technical reason why a game for windows 8 couldn't work for windows 7, either. This is a completely arbitrary lockout. I don't have an xbox, I can't get this on XBLA, so they're just saying I'll never play this game.

What's even dumber is that people will probably hack the game to make it work on 7 and pirates will have a field day.

Okami was an absolutely phenomenal game from start to finish. The 40+ hours to finish thing isn't wrong either, it's definitely that long. But it's worth it.

Is this going to be an actual press conference or just another pre-recorded event?

@greedycheese: I know that nobody wants to admit they could be a victim to it, but there's always the possibility of phishing. Sometimes all it is is a normal looking newsletter or whatever copied from blizzard, but replaced with their own links instead, hoping people would click on them and log into their phony site. Never click on a link from an email, ever.

I just look at the two current theories right now, and regardless of what Blizzard says on the matter, I just don't see any proof for Session ID hijacking, and it's pretty telling to me that every person who gets hacked doesn't have an authenticator. The most likely scenario is that all of this is just traditional hacking. I hope you find out what happened to you, greedycheese.

@NS1126 said:

I got hacked this morning. I am a level 60 monk in Inferno Act 2, just beyond Maghda. All my stuff is gone (gems, 3 equip sets - MF, damage/hp, resistance set - and all my cash). They even cleared out all the sold stuff from my AH.

I submitted a ticket 8 hours ago and have no reply yet. The status of the ticket is open. I have added an authenticator now that this has happened.

However, Blizzard supposedly only does character rollbacks twice. Assuming they agree that I was hacked, they will rollback to a previously saved state. However, I should not have this count as one of my two chances since this is not my fault.

I ran AVG and Spybot S&D on both of my computers and got an all clear flag from both. Also, Blizzard CS is pretty lax in their reply times.

Try running Microsoft Security Essentials. I know a guy who was insistent that it wasn't his fault and he was not infected at all, and after running MSE, his third virus scanner, he found out he was actually infected with a dangerous rootkit. Most likely, you have been infected by something, somehow. Running one virus scanner and one spyware detector isn't going to completely protect you.

edit: Run avast for good measure, too. Basically, if my account was compromised, whether not not it was my fault, I'd run every virus scanner under the sun.

@ThatPrimeGuy Blizzard sells the authenticators at cost or at a loss. They don't profit from them at all. They're only $6 from blizzard, while similar devices can retail for up to $50 elsewhere.

@greedycheese Like I said a couple posts up, if someone logs in using your username and password, while you are currently online, you will get disconnected. That's what happened to you. Someone got a hold of your pw somehow.

I'd run multiple virus scans if I was you. You most likely have been compromised in some fashion. It doesn't matter how safe you think you are, sometimes all it takes is loading a site that's running a bad flash ad.