There's been some drama in the Killer Instinct community over the weekend, as players have been taking to social media to call for help from Microsoft and developer Iron Galaxy in response to an apparent attack from a "hacker".
It seems that the ranked multiplayer part of Killer Instinct is now completely inaccessible at the time of writing, with just exhibition and lobbies still working. As a result, players are desperately asking for assistance:
As mentioned in the video above, it appears that some Killer Instinct players are aware of who the "hacker" is, and the issues have supposedly been going on for a long time, but there's no obvious way to stop them from occurring.
It seems to be a very similar situation to that of Titanfall 2, which itself has suffered high-profile issues with hackers in the past. Here's hoping Microsoft can find a way to remedy the problem in the near future, although sadly it's been multiple years since Killer Instinct has received any meaningful updates at this point.
Have you been affected by this? Let us know down in the comments below.
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I stopped taking any leaderboards seriously when I saw people completing a board or time challenge in seconds back on 360. It was not possible.
Killerinstinct is still my favorite Fighting game (Read it microsoft)
Been playing this game alot when it was on sale on steam.
Played it alot ln xbox.
But man this game seriously has my nr one fighting game spot.
Honestly there's been a lot of this going on lately. For example, I've notice how there's a user who has hacked the Forza Horizon 4 auction house so they can win every auction and inflate the values of everything beyond what they sell for new, basically ruining it for everyone. Seems like nobody managing Xbox Live could care less.
Considering how aggressive they have been about banning people over toxic chat behavior, they really should be cracking down much harder on people maliciously hacking their games.
@JayJ hell they've been going mad about banning people for their car designs lol, surely they could focus on this as well.
@Cherip-the-Ripper Yeah I mean if people can get banned for a car design offending somebody, surely banning someone who is hacking the game and manipulating their entire online marketplace should be a priority, right?
Something is very wrong with the way the authority figures are handling the community. Criminals with nefarious intent are allowed to run rampant while thought crime is pushed.
At a certain point there's a responsibility to protect the games, services, and community that they are failing to live up to.
Seriously, all this is doing is highlighting that there's a problem and the solution isn't coming. Both the Killer Instinct guy and FH4 guy wouldn't last five minutes in an active game with support, but that's the whole point.
It's almost like they're going 'I own this game now, not the developers. You do what I say you are going to do, and that's it.'
And that's the crying shame.
@ValentineMeikin All Microsoft has to do is ban these people, and the problem is solved, as these people are literally the problem for everyone else. It doesn't seem fair to allow one person ruin a game for everyone else, especially when they are breaking, what is supposedly the terms of service as they do so.
It's like Microsoft clearly isn't afraid of banning people, as they routinely ban accounts for behavioral problems. It just seems weird how they are so lackadaisical when it comes to people posing serious threats to both the platform and the integrity of their games.
I think they really need to overhaul the way they approach moderating Xbox Live, and put far more emphasis into banning malicious hackers. There is so few of these people that you can literally finger them out of the millions of people on Xbox Live at any moment, yet they manage to ruin things for anyone playing the games they infect. How hard could it be to ban them? Why is Microsoft not taking this more seriously?
I haven’t played KI in years but this sucks on what’s happening here. Microsoft, Iron Galaxy, Rare, somebody in these groups has to be aware of this issue.
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