Respawn Entertainment's Director of Communications has hit back at Apex Legends hackers, saying that they "achieved nothing of value."
In case you missed the news, Apex Legends was recently hacked by a group of agitated Titanfall fans. The original Titanfall has been almost unplayable on PC for years due to a group of racist hackers, causing the game's already small playerbase to slowly disappear. In an act of what seems like foolish desperation, hackers recently took over Apex Legend's playlists to try and spread awareness.
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Unfortunately for Respawn Entertainment, this happened on a Sunday, and forced unnecessary overtime on an entire group of developers. One such developer was Ryan Rigney, Respawn's Director of Communications who has since hit out at the hackers on Twitter, claiming that the hack "achieved nothing of value" since the team has been working on fixes since the beginning.
"The team has never stopped working on DDoS solutions, and anti-cheat is just a never-ending war of whack-a-mole," explains Rigney. "On the DDoS front, we WILL solve this. When we do, I promise you it won't be because hackers "made us aware" by ruining a holiday. They achieved nothing of value."
Before Rigney said this, he intially shared one of our articles critcising Apex Legends hackers for making developers work on a Sunday, something which will more than likely hinder their cause than help it. As the article predicted, many developer's holidays were ruined, including Rigney's, during which he was "holding [his] newborn nephew" before he had to go work on a weekend.
The team has never stopped working on DDoS solutions, and anti-cheat is just a never-ending war of whack-a-mole.
On the DDoS front, we WILL solve this. When we do, I promise you it won't be because hackers "made us aware" by ruining a holiday.
They achieved nothing of value.— Ryan K. Rigney (@RKRigney) July 6, 2021
One has to wonder why someone thought that hacking a different game would help in Respawn's efforts to fix Titanfall. If anything, the hack only diverted attention away from Titanfall, which is ironic considering the hack's main goal was to spread awareness.
Rigney's replies are just as toxic as one might expect, but maybe people should consider being kinder to those they're trying to elicit help from. Otherwise, one day Respawn might decide that all the controversy isn't worth the hassle and declare Titanfall a lost cause.
Source: VG24/7
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