Mighty confused

SSO player, hobby artist, writer and programmer

[garnokslayer]

Goodbye sso

I've read sso's blog post about GameGuard and the tech leads Twitter thread. They said all I needed to know, GameGuard is here to stay and since that's a complete deal breaker for me it marks the end of my star stable journey.

This is not a happy moment, I've been playing sso since 2012 and no matter how my posts sometimes are interpreted I've always loved this game. I am very thankful for sso and the things it’s given me. Especially so for making me interested in computers which gave me the carrier path I today walk down. Thank you for making the young me realise computers, games and programming are not just for boys.

The end is hard, sad, but it is inevitable. Goodbye sso.

What will happen to this blog? While I never intended it to turn into a pure sso blog, it is what it became. I do believe that most of this blog’s followers aren't interested in C#, git and crocheting so I will not do a 360 and suddenly start posting about them. No this blog is about sso and since I’m done it will slumber into the eternity. I do have another inactive general blog that I might pick up again, @flowingglitter. Follow it if you wish and pass if you don’t.

Take care, stay safe and walk in sunshine

[garnokslayer]

I ended up uninstalling sso, I do not trust GameGuard and I do not wish to see it installed on my computer. It’s not a decision I’m happy with, but the security of my computer weights heavier then my need to play sso.

Dose this mean the end for me and sso? Perhaps, but some more time and research is needed before that decision can be made.

[ourbatshill]

fyi uninstalling SSO does not mean that gameguard uninstalls automatically, make sure it got properly removed. A lot of anticheats stay around after.

[yasminewestbank-archive]

whats the problem w gameguard? :0

[ourbatshill]

Its a lackluster approach to an anticheat. They had serious security concerns in the past that have resulted in lackluster patches.

You know how we joke that SSO as a software is kinda a mess because of legacy code and outdated stuff (and generally hold together by glue) ? Gameguard is that just as an anticheat.

Its just a tiny barrier that cheaters are already jumping over, but additional to that the rest of the players now have to deal with a program with questionable security watching your pc while u play sso

(this is a very general (and biased) explanation)

[garnokslayer]

To add to @ourbatshill explanation. GameGuard is a rootkit, meaning that it can hide its activities from your administrator and regular account. It’s able to modify, read and install things without your knowledge or agreement. If that sounds like a virus to you it’s because it’s mainly viruses that install themselves as rootkits.

There are also stories going around how GameGuard bricked computers, opened backdoors for viruses and as @ourbatshill said it’s notoriously hard to uninstall.

[heretic-altias]

I don’t usually reblog sso stuff anymore, but I’m a comp sci nerd and this is important.

I did my own research after seeing this post thread and everything here is correct. It’s not intended to be malicious, but by nature it could easily be and it’s super invasive. It effectively watches every window open and kills any it suspects. It also monitors keyboard input. Since it has all this access any bugs in this (poorly made according to most online users) software can be devastating for computers. I haven’t played this week’s update, and I also won’t be touching the game until I know for sure it’s been taken out.

It honestly feels super unprofessional for sso to have added this software, any amount of research shows tons of posts telling people to AVOID various games bc they have it and tons of posts from computer nerds like myself saying they don’t trust it. User opinions like that should be important with this kind of thing. And the only ways to remove it that l can find documented (and usually outdated bc it actively tries to avoid this, and also actively tries to dodge antivirus software) involve deleting files in system32 and modifying the registries bc it messed with both of those. Most of SSO’s intended audience is literally INCAPABLE of removing this software. I wouldn’t expect my adult friends to be capable of safe registry edits, a 12 year old is out of the question. Why would you have kids unknowingly install software they won’t be able to remove?

[ourbatshill]

It took cheaters one day to break through the anticheat.

GG sso, you played yourself.

can we know get that random anticheat removed from the game?

[garnokslayer]

I ended up uninstalling sso, I do not trust GameGuard and I do not wish to see it installed on my computer. It’s not a decision I’m happy with, but the security of my computer weights heavier then my need to play sso.

Dose this mean the end for me and sso? Perhaps, but some more time and research is needed before that decision can be made.

[ourbatshill]

fyi uninstalling SSO does not mean that gameguard uninstalls automatically, make sure it got properly removed. A lot of anticheats stay around after.

[yasminewestbank-archive]

whats the problem w gameguard? :0

[ourbatshill]

Its a lackluster approach to an anticheat. They had serious security concerns in the past that have resulted in lackluster patches.

You know how we joke that SSO as a software is kinda a mess because of legacy code and outdated stuff (and generally hold together by glue) ? Gameguard is that just as an anticheat.

Its just a tiny barrier that cheaters are already jumping over, but additional to that the rest of the players now have to deal with a program with questionable security watching your pc while u play sso

(this is a very general (and biased) explanation)

[garnokslayer]

To add to @ourbatshill explanation. GameGuard is a rootkit, meaning that it can hide its activities from your administrator and regular account. It's able to modify, read and install things without your knowledge or agreement. If that sounds like a virus to you it's because it's mainly viruses that install themselves as rootkits.

There are also stories going around how GameGuard bricked computers, opened backdoors for viruses and as @ourbatshill said it's notoriously hard to uninstall.

[garnokslayer]

I ended up uninstalling sso, I do not trust GameGuard and I do not wish to see it installed on my computer. It’s not a decision I’m happy with, but the security of my computer weights heavier then my need to play sso.

Dose this mean the end for me and sso? Perhaps, but some more time and research is needed before that decision can be made.

[garnokslayer]

While I applauded sso for finally doing something about all the cheaters, I can't say I'm too happy with the choice of GameGaurd. From what I can read it doesn't seem to be very effective and since it's a rootkit the potential security and privacy threats it holds is worrying

[nowisgood5]

[juni-ravenhall]

AS A DOLL AND TOY ENTHUSIAST I AM SCREAMING RESPECTFULLY

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sso-bluegirl]

okay behold the greatest pieces of my sso collection. i got these glass horses from pony club in around 2010. they’re modelled after the soul riders horses and i kdjfjr i love them so much.

my sister at that time had the habit of breaking all my horse figurines by playing with them too roughly, so the fact that these are (mostly) in one piece is a miracle. (i stored them in a taped down tea box lmao. they’ve barely seen the light of day and i have no idea how they survived). they’re intact except for concorde, who i managed to trade from one of my classmates to complete my collection. and then i managed to kick them off my bed right before boxing them lol

[garnokslayer]

The head shading makes me think there is not gonna be a bald hairstyle option for the new avatar. Kinda sad since they look really good bald and it would be great thing for bald kids to get some representation.

However, don’t get me wrong. The new avatar so far looks great, I’m just here in my little corner trying to create alopecia awareness 👩‍🦲

[lilakennedy]

something i absolutely love in sso, is when you are training and just doing races - and a random stranger is doing the race with you, or even multiple races back to back. 

there’s no plan or communication, you never met this player in your life, you start the race at roughly the same time but you don’t talk, the chat is never used, you maybe hit ‘X’ after a race or throw an emote at them,

whenever that happens i’m willing to protect that person with my life, i don’t care that i can’t even remember their name, that’s my racing buddy now and i’ll die for them 

[garnokslayer]

[garnokslayer]

[juni-ravenhall]

was “sso stop being nice to your players” a real genuine sentence i just read ksdjhgwiusfdvinjks iTS A GAME FOR LITTLE KIDS,,,,,,,,

[yasminewestbank-archive]

TWO

HUNDRED

STARCOINS

[kyesdump]

she just like me fr 🛐 irl katja

[garnokslayer]

Well, Magdalenas speech did nothing to calm me down. Just impulse bought a portable stove 🙃