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For any of you that don't know what 666 means, then I'll tell you. 666
is a common referal to the Devil in Christian believe, it is the number of the beast, if you will, and it became known in
the book of Revalations in the Bible.
Only recently, the 6th of June 2006, or 06/06/06, became known as Satan's day, and many people
believed that the apocolypse and all that would happen, and also, the Omen, a hit movie back in the day, made its reprisal.
A video of the Falador incident can be found here.
Well instead of worrying about the end of the world and all that, a strange incident happened in Falador world
111, where after a massive party at the success of getting 99 construction, everyone got teled to Falador when the owner logged
out, due to a glitch a guy called Durial321, a member of DI, happened to have the ability to attack anyone in Falador.
Mny people believe that it was well planned, as the arrival of the entire DI 'spamming' brigade disillusioned everyone into
panic. Naturally alot of people lost alot of stuff, and apparently the Durial guy came out of it with a Party Hat, obby sets,
rangers and more. The video above shows the chaos that day, with mods telling everyone to bank their belongings. Jagex didn't do a
time reverse. Obviously this caused an outrage. This is what Jagex Mod Paul said that day:
"Hi,
Thought I'd respond to rants about a bug we had last night where some people (well pretty
much just one person really) managed to go player killing outside of the wilderness.
Development staff got out of bed
in the middle of the night to sort things as quickly as possible, but I apologise for this inconvenience that will have been
caused to a number of our users.
We do have a testing team who did spend a lot of time testing this update, but the update
had so much content I guess it wasn't that unlikely we'd not think of every way to break every feature and that something
would sneak through.
That is not an excuse to be lax on things on my part, we are obviosuly unhappy that sort of bug
occured and certainly wouldn't want a repeat of it.
We are learning from this and are making improvements to our testing
and coding procedures so that this sort of bug will be less likely to occur.
I would like to take this oppurtunity
to point out that bug abuse is against the rules of our game, especially something as serious as this and people involved
with this one have their accounts disabled now.
I wish it was possible to refund items people have lost, but it's
just too hard to tell who really has lost stuff, there would be too many false claims to handle - as it is I can see people
claiming they have lost stuff that weren't even online at the time.
The people making up stories make it seem like far
more people have been adversly affected by bugs than actually is the case.
In terms of rollbacks, they're pretty tricky
things for us to do technically and it's certainly too long ago to consider now as it would majorly set people back an awful
lot of game play time. Thousands and thousands more people than the very small number who were affected by the bug.
I
would also like to point out that we cannot unfortunatly allow people to link to other sites, those are standard forum rules
and always have been and not related to this incident - this is NOT us covering things up - but more that we cannot be sure
that certain of the security of other sites and that things won't contain keyloggers"
Obviously, many people were outraged with what happened. Personally I reckon Jagex done it on purpose,
after all it's not that often that 6*6*6 cmes around. Get my drift?
This is what some people thought of the event:
"
yes, a terrible bug appeared right after a certain players 99 construct party,
though there are many claims of more than one person,it was actually just one player, they wore ahrims,a whip and a green
partyhat, and used the spell 'ice barrage' to freeze groups of people , turning the party into a massacre, he managed to pk(
these are his own words)
one green partyhat
a santa
a few ranger sets
and a loada obby sets, then things like
full rune.
the claims that people lost PHAT'S are not true,because he only pked one,and he has been banned since,
but he hopes to get his account back.
he says he enjoyed his hour as 'god' walking around killing as he pleased
the
middle section,the only pker who could do this,those are his own words, i think the people who say they have lost so much
stuff, they should get forum bans,they are just spamming to try and look 'rich' and 'great'. "
"We The People! Of world 111 DEMAND justice for the glitch in which Ice
Barrage
wiped out over half of the population from
Edgeville to Falador! I personally lost my Ranger set that
I worked
for a month to get and I think that ignoring the
true fact that you made a mistake is the wrong move! Own
up
to what you did and give the people their stuff back! I
know I didnt lose the most many peoples lives were
destroyed
by this madness. I only have one thing left to say.
What has RuneScape come to? "
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