Let’s be honest, the internet is not a safe place. No matter where you turn, there’s a virus, malware program, phishing software, or some other hack that’s trying to get your information. Nothing is sacred anymore. When it comes to online games, the danger takes on several forms as sometimes you have to link your personal information or banking/credit card information to accounts to perform all sorts of payment. This can leave you vulnerable to attacks, and games like Revelation Online don’t want you to be hacked.
What’s worse, if someone figures out your login and password, they can technically control your character and RO doesn’t want that either. My.com details ways you can ensure that your account is as safe as can be, even if the worst should happen.
First up, you can make a password for your inventory. By doing this, you’ll hopefully prevent people from getting rid of your items to mess with you, or putting you close to a character they own so you can “give” your items to them. They’re even throwing in a lock function so that you yourself can’t accidentally get rid of something by clicking the wrong button.
Other tips they give include not sharing your account information. While it may be ok to tell your friends who you trust, do it carefully so that someone else won’t hear or see it. If you have a My.com account, don’t use it and its password to play Revelation Online, for if someone cracks that, it could lead to your game account being hacked too.
Finally, be aware of what to do if you think you have been hacked. Report it to the Support team for the game, and reset any and all passwords you have. There may be a wait for some, but it’s better to wait and be safe than don’t and risk being robbed again.
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A lot of us had all these “steps” to protect our accounts already taken care of. All our other games, sites etc are fine without any breach but we log into Revelation Online to find everything gone!
This is an obvious tactic to sidetrack the issue with revelation online and to deflect blame onto the user.
If you look at the forums many people have been hacked, had their storage/bank passwords breached too and the list is increasing.
Moderators have also been deleting threads on the hacking issue if it calls into question their inability to stop this from happening or to fix the issue.
AND the icing on the cake here is that RO refuses to return the items missing saying that the items were sold via the ingame market and due to this cannot be returned!
We also have the fact that RO’s TOS actually states that we’re responsible for the security of our accounts and that items lost due to a breach is not their responsibility… Meaning any paying customers or founders pack owners be prepared to be rejected should you be hacked and send in a ticket wanting items returned.
Yes it is still happening this long after the article was published.
I only add this here in the hopes that other people searching for info on hacked accounts will get a good idea as to the kind of responses you will get from a bad company such as my.com… Save the effort and your money!