You’re telling this to a company that Hotfixed nerfed someone that was either fine/at worse needed buffs and completely broke him, yet still haven’t found the time in there day to even try and fix him cause…“Reasons”.
Apparently quick fixes are only good when it’s ruining something.[/quote]
Except Nexon or Splash Damage wasn’t in charge of distribution, Alienware was.
At least channel your disgruntled attitude at the appropriate target.
I REALLY don’t get why Nexon and Alienware don’t just put a captcha code, before you get your code.
You’re telling this to a company that Hotfixed nerfed someone that was either fine/at worse needed buffs and completely broke him, yet still haven’t found the time in there day to even try and fix him cause…“Reasons”.
Apparently quick fixes are only good when it’s ruining something.[/quote]
Except Nexon or Splash Damage wasn’t in charge of distribution, Alienware was.
At least channel your disgruntled attitude at the appropriate target.[/quote]
They apparently have an amount of influence or else there words of “Working with them” ring completely hollow. They also know how they do things before they give keys out to them, to be given away, so acting like they have no control over it what so ever is completely laughable.
This is as much on SD as it is on alienware.
[quote=“titaniumCrouton;120338”]They apparently have an amount of influence or else there words of “Working with them” ring completely hollow. They also know how they do things before they give keys out to them, to be given away, so acting like they have no control over it what so ever is completely laughable.
This is as much on SD as it is on alienware.[/quote]
@titaniumCrouton Alienware were 100% responsible for distribution of the keys and their methods are exactly the same as their prior giveaways, for both Dirty Bomb and other games. Nexon and Splash Damage had very little say in this outside of signing the deal for key distribution and sponsorship.
Nexon are now in talks with Alienware to over-see the next batch of keys, to ensure appropriate measures are taken to prevent bots taking them and reselling them. 
Hope this helps explain the situation a little more!
[quote=“Faraleth;120375”][quote=“titaniumCrouton;120338”]They apparently have an amount of influence or else there words of “Working with them” ring completely hollow. They also know how they do things before they give keys out to them, to be given away, so acting like they have no control over it what so ever is completely laughable.
This is as much on SD as it is on alienware.[/quote]
@titaniumCrouton Alienware were 100% responsible for distribution of the keys and their methods are exactly the same as their prior giveaways, for both Dirty Bomb and other games. Nexon and Splash Damage had very little say in this outside of signing the deal for key distribution and sponsorship.
Nexon are now in talks with Alienware to over-see the next batch of keys, to ensure appropriate measures are taken to prevent bots taking them and reselling them.
Hope this helps explain the situation a little more![/quote]
Which is what I said already. Nexon/SD KNEW the lack of security when signing said deal with them. They KNEW this kind of thing could happen (as anyone who has been on the internet for more than a year would’ve known because bots aren’t exactly rare)
But instead of finding someone more secure or talking about the issue of there lack of security beforehand, they signed away and let this happen. Only now that the bots have claimed the vast majority of the keys, which any sane person could’ve saw coming, are they now working on a solution.
This was entirely avoidable and SD/nexon had the power to see to it’s prevention before they set this in motion in the first place.
So yes, it’s both there faults. Sorry if that doesn’t sit well with fanboyisim, but it’s the reality.
[quote=“titaniumCrouton;120475”]Which is what I said already. Nexon/SD KNEW the lack of security when signing said deal with them. They KNEW this kind of thing could happen (as anyone who has been on the internet for more than a year would’ve known because bots aren’t exactly rare)
But instead of finding someone more secure or talking about the issue of there lack of security beforehand, they signed away and let this happen. Only now that the bots have claimed the vast majority of the keys, which any sane person could’ve saw coming, are they now working on a solution.
This was entirely avoidable and SD/nexon had the power to see to it’s prevention before they set this in motion in the first place.
So yes, it’s both there faults. Sorry if that doesn’t sit well with fanboyisim, but it’s the reality.[/quote]
@titaniumCrouton regardless, the responsibility of distribution lies with Alienware as they are the outlet actually distributing the keys. Prior Alienware giveaways have actually not had this problem, such as the Skyhammer/Aura Alienware loadout cards - so it’s easy for them to assume another giveaway would go as smooth as the previous one.
Alas, as they have said those were not the only keys and there will be plenty more, so everyone should get one
[quote=“cornJester;119933”][quote=“Mercury;119929”]While I admit I took 2 keys, it wouldn’t have gone down that fast even if the whole playerbase took 2. When I grabbed the second key 2 minutes after the other and noticed there were 3000 less keys, something was fishy.
Hell, I feel a bit guilty now.[/quote]
@Mercury Who were you getting the 2nd key for? If it was a friend that’s understandable.[/quote]
Totally honest here, I was planning to make some money out of it, since the key stock was much larger than the average playerbase. Ended up giving it to a fellow Unclean Explosive player, since the bots actually ruined it for everyone else.
In the end, the people who ended up getting more than 1 key might be the ones saving some butts there (provided they are kind enough to give them away).
Is there any ETA on when we can expect a re-release @missmurder ?
[quote=“Faraleth;120477”][quote=“titaniumCrouton;120475”]Which is what I said already. Nexon/SD KNEW the lack of security when signing said deal with them. They KNEW this kind of thing could happen (as anyone who has been on the internet for more than a year would’ve known because bots aren’t exactly rare)
But instead of finding someone more secure or talking about the issue of there lack of security beforehand, they signed away and let this happen. Only now that the bots have claimed the vast majority of the keys, which any sane person could’ve saw coming, are they now working on a solution.
This was entirely avoidable and SD/nexon had the power to see to it’s prevention before they set this in motion in the first place.
So yes, it’s both there faults. Sorry if that doesn’t sit well with fanboyisim, but it’s the reality.[/quote]
@titaniumCrouton regardless, the responsibility of distribution lies with Alienware as they are the outlet actually distributing the keys. Prior Alienware giveaways have actually not had this problem, such as the Skyhammer/Aura Alienware loadout cards - so it’s easy for them to assume another giveaway would go as smooth as the previous one.
Alas, as they have said those were not the only keys and there will be plenty more, so everyone should get one :)[/quote]
Whatever you say 
I really don’t like how you and others are so quick to absolve SD/nexon of any wrong doings though. People defending companies and saying “They didn du nuffin wrong” is how you get companies like EA.
Holding people accountable for there actions or lack there of is not a bad thing. Not doing so is anti-consumer.
If they could tell Alienware to change their system so that the keys were safe from bots, and actually cause them to do that before an actual bot event occurred, that would be a tremendous amount of power for a pretty small company to wield over a very large subsidiary of Dell.
Realistically, Alienware works under the principle of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It takes resources and time to implement a webpage change, an even longer time to implement a distribution change, and if they don’t have any problems with their distribution method, then they aren’t going to change it.
As an comparison to this occurrence, say Nexon/SD is a company that has a product it wants to ship across the world, so they hire Alienware, an air-delivery company. Alienware has never had a problem with their flights before, so Nexon/SD feels assured in using their services. Unfortunately, the flight that was shipping Nexon/SD’s product crashed into the ocean because of a hijacking. Can you blame Nexon/SD for the product loss? No, shipping was out of their control when it was in the plane. Can you blame Alienware? Yes, plane security is part of their business as an air-delivery service.
Anyone could receive coverall keys… But unused keys are not being cancelled and reused for others…
Make it like: 24 hours to activate. Unused? Discard and reuse (another code) for someone else.
@MissMurder I saw someone selling these cards. I suppose that is not allowed?
G2A is one of the sites that have used bots…those greedy bstrds >:)
[spoiler]https://www.g2a.com/dirty-bomb-exclusive-alienware-skin-case-cd-key-global.html[/spoiler]
[quote=“Dog;120632”]If they could tell Alienware to change their system so that the keys were safe from bots, and actually cause them to do that before an actual bot event occurred, that would be a tremendous amount of power for a pretty small company to wield over a very large subsidiary of Dell.
Realistically, Alienware works under the principle of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It takes resources and time to implement a webpage change, an even longer time to implement a distribution change, and if they don’t have any problems with their distribution method, then they aren’t going to change it.
As an comparison to this occurrence, say Nexon/SD is a company that has a product it wants to ship across the world, so they hire Alienware, an air-delivery company. Alienware has never had a problem with their flights before, so Nexon/SD feels assured in using their services. Unfortunately, the flight that was shipping Nexon/SD’s product crashed into the ocean because of a hijacking. Can you blame Nexon/SD for the product loss? No, shipping was out of their control when it was in the plane. Can you blame Alienware? Yes, plane security is part of their business as an air-delivery service. [/quote]
But it is “broke”, unless an army of bots grabbing all keys in the matter of hours doesn’t qualify as “broke”…
The good thing is that SD/Nexon have the technical means to grant cases when logging in, so it can solve this situation if Alienware doesn’t do anything. Anyone that logs in and doesn’t have this case gets one. Unless Alienware decides to be a dick and block that.
@NAIKoLDY Probably not even a good idea to advertise that. We’re aware that those assholes took a bunch of the keys but best not to spread it around in case some desperate person rewards that by buying some.