Player Hacks Splatoon 2 Leaderboards to highlight cheating, gets banned

Earlier this week, a player Splatoon 2 made headlines after hacking the clbadified rankings in order to send a message about cheating, and in an unexpected move by Nintendo, it forbade the user to do it.

It all started at the beginning of the week when a user has since been identified as a user of You / PleaseAddAntiCheat on Reddit, has claimed responsibility for the use of four alternative accounts to hack and claim the first place on each clbadified mode. When read together, the names of the accounts spelled out a message: "Please Add Anti Cheat."

Someone hacked the Splatoon 2 X Rank ranking in an effort to recall Nintendo's lack of response to cheats.

anti cheating " pic.twitter.com/ehz4mmWL3c

– Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) July 12, 2018

This, of course, was an answer to the hacking problem that Splatoon 2 has suffered since its debut last July.This is all that can be expected from a multiplayer shooter, such as unlimited ink (or ammunition in this case), super-powerful weapons and invisibility.It's not like Nintendo was unaware of these problems and he even recruited players to report anyone handling the game through the SplatNet application of Splatoon 2 but there is just one problem:

Even the recent patch did not do much to combat these persistent problems, focusing mainly on the usual weapon adjustments, bug fixes and more.In fact, patch notes do not make no mention of the multitude of exploits for any reason whatsoever.

With the situation as it is, it's no wonder that a fearless user determined that Nintendo was the only way to solve the problem. seriously was to hack the game itself; and for what it's worth, it worked. Nintendo took note and not only zeroed the rank of each account, but even went so far as to ban many of its accounts indefinitely.

"It seems like it took them time to access all my accounts," said PleaseAddAntiCheat an update. "But I can confirm that my console is now 2124-4027." (This number is posted on Nintendo Switch consoles that saw restricted services.)

That said, it's still hard to tell if Nintendo has learned anything. Why? Because Nintendo went so far as to ban temporary accounts and not the main user or the console itself. In other words, this user would be free to hack again if he wanted to, and if that is the case, then someone with the malevolent intent to do it. same thing.

So, yes, Nintendo noticed, but he did not really do anything to note … at least he tried, I guess?