Sega of Japan has announced that the Phantasy Star Online 2 servers will be undergoing emergency maintenance this evening to deal with an exploit that caused various NPCs to be moved to unreachable locations within the lobbies.
Excerpts of some lobby chat transcripts being posted around the Internet appear to incriminate English-speaking players in the incidents. Some of the posted logs show a group of people talking about "punishing" Sega for not providing internationally linked servers.
Please explain to me how this accomplishes anything. Sega hasn't even said anything one way or the other on the topic of linked servers. And if the idea is still being considered, the actions of these script kiddies will probably convince Sega not to have them, if nothing else. I guess most of these people don't have the brains to realize that, though.
In the meantime, Sega has banned the accounts of at least 75 users confirmed to be cheating. It's nice to see that swift action is being taken to deal with the problem.
If you see script kiddies running around on the servers, take screenshots and report them!
The topic of linked servers for PSO2 has sparked a lot of good debate and discussion. We've mentioned it several times on this blog. The community has engaged with Sega on Twitter, Facebook, and in online petitions in an attempt to make the argument for international servers. And if Sega chooses not to have them, there's no excuse to throw a temper tantrum about it. People are allowed to be upset, but ruining the game experience for other players as a result is just plain sad.
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