SC2 is going to have PROTECTION!

[Anachron]

4. Wird der neue Karteneditor es unterstützen, dass der Kartenersteller seine Karte sichert? Es ist frustrierend, wenn jemand anderes die Lorbeeren für die eigene Mühe erntet.
[Dustin Browder] Ja, wir planen dieses Feature einzubauen. Wir hoffen, dass dies der Modding Community auch einen besseren Anreiz gibt, eigene Karten zu erstellen.

In english:
4. Does the new editor supports that the mapmaker saves his map?
Its frustating that others get the praising for the stolen map.
[Durstin Browder] Yes, we are planning to do this feature. We hope that it will give the modding community an appeal to make own maps.

Haha and now all good mappers are funny and the beginners cry:
No

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Zomg! You know what I just realized?!

Warcraft III has protection too, WELL SHIT! Oh wait, damn hackers found a way to bypass that.

[/sarcasm] I'm pretty sure it wont make a difference, just that we'll have map protection from the start instead of someone developing it later on. People will still hack

 

[Mechanical Man]

I hope that deprotector will be developed fairly quickly.

 

[Anachron]

Deprotectors suck, just stop hacking and learn by doing.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Nice piece of info, dhk_undead_lord. Not that I care all that much if people want to rip my maps, but it's good to know that Blizzard seems to be taking a greater interest in modding in general with Sc2! +rep.

 

[Angry_Bovine]

Saves someone the effort of making a map protector for SC2, but, as usual, someone will make a de-protector. Unless Blizzard is smart enough to make one good enough?

 

[Anachron]

Best of all would be that the listfile get protection and can only be opened by blizzard then.

 

[Preskooldude]

I can guarentee that any sort of protection can be broken.

Actually, in the case of these sorts of games, the game's protection should be broken rather easily. After all, the game itself will have to deprotect the map to play it, in a sense. Well, ok, so maybe that's a really inaccurate suggestion. maybe it simply blocks the editor, buuut still.

 

[Anachron]

Maybe a hidden setting which allows you to not be able to open it in WE.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Aren't blizzard programmers better than some shitfaced hack-nerds?

 

[Anachron]

My words..

 

[The_wand_mirror]

My words..

I stealz them.

 

[Anachron]

I stealz them.

My words again!

 

[Gilles]

I thought everyone new this already. I thought I did, or was that just speculation and rumors?

 

[Hakeem]

Aren't blizzard programmers better than some shitfaced hack-nerds?

Not. At. All.



As long as it doesn't obfuscate the useful learning tool that is the script, I wont complain.

 

[Anachron]

I posted it for everyone, doesn't matter if anybody knew this before. Just thought of being a good information.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

I'd have to say I could have guessed that Blizzard was going to implement a protector into its next editor. I could easily question its effectiveness, but it would be there either way.

I think the question is not "Would one be able to deprotect it?" but "If so, how much trouble can you make someone go through to do so?"

 

[Anachron]

I think next protection will be better.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

"If so, how much trouble can you make someone go through to do so?"

Oh, trust me. There are some lifeless people who WOULD go through the trouble to do so.

 

[Anachron]

We can't do anything. I just hope Blizzard is going to make a Mapping Community with prizes and much more help. And mapsteal causing ban. That would be great.

 

[redmarine]

Blizzard got some of the best game developers to develop their games so I guess that they could figure out something that will last long. Perhaps frequently updating the protection if they feel that the hackers have come too close.

 

[Anachron]

I think they still have an idea for protection, maybe they have one, but don'T want to say (bc of the hackers that wanna hack that shit xD)

 

[onix_noob]

I hae idea about map protecting but this won't happen never for games that you must pay for 1 CD key and the game. The idea is Map Editor to can connect to Data base of some site hosted on Internet, and when you try to open map the ditor to chek in data base if the map is protected if is protected to ask you for password to open the map. And becouse of all kids that are making map with 1 unit and will protect their maps to be maked somthing like here in hive map to must be reviewd to gain protection. I hope you catch what i say but anyway this won't happen this is alot of work anyway and i think there is still no such a system in the world

Give this idea at Blizard to recive thausand bucks ahahahaha

 

[Rui]

As it has always been said: "If the map is playable, there is a way to break it's protection."

Blizzard did a fine job (nearly?) preventing maphack tools on Battle.Net (in ladder, of course). They might come up with a good map protector, but in my opinion (and I hope I'm wrong) there will eventually be someone who succeeds in breaking the protection.
Once Starcraft II is abandoned (which will only happen if Blizzard releases Warcraft 4 or some other RTS game), the only weapon Blizzard will have to combat map-hacking is changing the way things are compiled, just like they did for Warcraft III -- nobody is willing to waste money for an almost dead game. And the problem with that is that they will not only be delaying the inevitable resuming of map-hacking, as they break helpful tools (which happened with JASSNewGen) aswell.


By the way, Starcraft related things go on the Starcraft II forum.

 

[AirHead]

please onix noob in english, but if they made the protection so that when is gets hacked it leaves a hidden sign saying that it has been hacked and when SC2 loads a map with that sign, it denies it, then it would work, for at least a while until hackers learn to remove the sign.

 

[onix_noob]

The head full with air please tell me what part of my post wasn't in english!

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

In our latest campaign to make people acknowledge the existence of the Gamer's Hub forum, I have taken the liberty of moving this thread there.