I was thinkin...

[Gunba]

Well, I was reading some aggressive review of gunz done by some ****tard who hadn't played more then 5 minutes and decided to flame the crap out of it, and someone posted something intelligent.

'MAIET did not have to worry about fixing hacks because you had to supply your KSSN to register for Korean Gunz, thus providing an easy method of bannage.'

It got me thinking, how could iGunz have a system similar to the Social Security number system and still be playable by everybody?

I thought.. Phones. Maybe we could, every time we wanted to make a new account, ring MAIET, effectively giving them $2-3 (Another income for the game). And think about it, you might say 'Only 5000 people play the game!' but you should think... It's actually about 10000-15000 because of timezones and people who don't play as much. This alone is 45000, which isn't alot, BUT! You think about how many people TRY the game every day. There must have been quite a few million registeries, assuming these all gave $3 or so.. MAIET would be a happy camper. ~_~;;

This way, when you hack, and get caught, your phone number gets banned. Forget ever playing off that phone again. ^_^

i.e You go to teh website, register for an account and it gives you.. a number. A 6 digit number.
Then you call the number given to you (Not the 6 digit code) and after a few minutes of listening to how great Gunz is, she (the voice recording) would ask you for the code, and you'd press the numbers.

The advantages here are, a phone could only be used once before it became 'used' and you couldn't make a new account on that number.

Some issues might be payphones, but how many payphones in the world are there? This might only give people 2-3 accounts before they run out of payphones and effectively are forced to quit. Plus MAIET might benefit here due to the income from the phone calls.

Other issues might be someone getting banned while living in a house, moving house later in their life, and someone moving in that also plays gunz (unlikely). This person would have a banned phone number, yah? They could PM Maiet and explain the situation, give them details etc. and Maiet could give the phone number one more chance.

Anyway. I'm not sure how feasible this is, or if even possible. Just came to me today and I had to post it.

I assume I left out one fundamental flaw that makes this all impossible but w/e, if someone more educated then me can find it, go ahead and post.

[berserkuh]

... Shut your trap before thinking again. Ever. You know how much a call to the exterior is? It's like paying for GunZ. And GunZ is F2P.

[Gunba]

Rofl. I think most people would pay $2-3 if it was on their phone, and a one time payment. Even then, if they didn't want to make people pay a REASONABLE one time fee for a hack-free gunz, that'd be fine too. They could just have the call cost (And how much does it cost to call long distance for like 20 secs?)

Is it just me or does every thread I make, make you cry?

Get over it and be polite.

[Btw. here in aus, you can get long distance calls for around 20c a minute, which is about 13c american, so it shouldn't cost that much for a single, 30-60 second call to MAIET in Korea. ~_~]

Note: You could also have, on the site, a requirement to put your phone number in, and as a validation, MAIET would have to recieve a call from that number.

[berserkuh]

Mhm. Then the site gets hacked, like in the past, and your phone bill comes 1000$. I'm telling you. There's no safety at all. We've been hacked before.

[sinisterone]

Why dont we just when we hit /kick everyone hits y instead of n

[Sanosuke]

Ohh that would be 1337 we go broke because of a game that isn't worth 3 buck lol

And ofcourse they dont care about banning since KGunz is 1time ban ¬¬ and your pretty much screwed.Here get i.p banned then go proxy.

I guess they bought XCrap for IGunz thinking hackers would be scared...lol. No way to stop hackers for IGunz.Well leechers.

[Gunba]

3 bucks? I said that they could just get rid of that and not charge anything for it, maybe like 10c so the phone system paid for itself.

This would stop hackers due to the fact that phone numbers are in short supply, much like KSSN's, except you cant generate phone numbers, because if you do, you cant actually use them to call maiet. \=

Sinister - Because kicks dont stop hackers, they just kick them out. Restart gunz rejoin or play another game.

beserkuh - what could hacking the site do? you'd call them, it's like saying if I had MAIET's phone number I could give them a $1000 phone bill.

[berserkuh]

Originally Posted by Gunba

beserkuh - what could hacking the site do? you'd call them, it's like saying if I had MAIET's phone number I could give them a $1000 phone bill.

Watch the news more often. Recently a guy got charged $3000 because he got a dial-up virus that kept calling a phone in Australia. Luckily, he was pardoned.

[King Banana]

Smart phones are dumb.

[gometro33]

Why not just have to verify with a PayPal or CC #?

MAIET could accept only validated PayPal accounts (the ones that have an address and bank acct/CC tied to it).

There are tons of ways MAIET could go about this but, frankly, until they get a company to distribute the game and take it out of Beta (like Level Up! in InGunZ) I really don't think they care at all about how many hackers there are as long as enough people are playing.

[Yuna]

Yup, this may relate to prems too.

Hope they allow phone/mail payment for prems, lol. =/