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8 1997
Oradnal
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Can AG remove peoples scores? I feel some scores on games should be removed Eg; The Anders score on Exit Path 00:00, was either a glitch or a hack.

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Well, no. The reason is that is a flash game. They can't edit the game while hundreds or thousands of people playing it. I know people hack flash games, but programmers can't remove that.

ExboMarker
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I would guess that if the score was entered through the Armor Games system they could remove it. Not sure about what it says for the game though.

BlackVortex
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It's been done before I think, or it was completely reset, can't remember. But most hackers scores are clearly hacked or glitched, so it doesn't really matter, and people know the score isn't real.

ExboMarker
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and people know the score isn't real.

I don't see why people would have an impossible score anyways :P
BlackVortex
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I don't see why people would have an impossible score anyways :P


Most people probably hack games because they enjoy doing it, or just want to see their name at the top, or maybe just to practice hacking games, not really to make people think 'oh, he's the best at this game'
cormyn
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We try our best to remove bogus/hacked scores. Sadly there are people out there with way too much free time on their hands and they try to manipulate their Flash or use cheat programs to send fake scores instead of just enjoying the games we work hard to make available to all of you.

In some cases, however, it can be quite overwhelming to sort through every high score system in every game on every difficulty level just to look for bad scores. I've been working on some ways to detect them via software to speed things up, and only alert our team when it finds scores that need to be removed. No ETA on getting that rolling, so we're stuck with doing it manually right now.

There have been occasions as well where a player truly plays REALLY hard at a game and comes up with what we feel is a ridiculously high score and delete it because we think it's bogus, so we need to be extremely careful. In some cases, we rely on the game developers themselves to tell us what *should* be possible, even for the hard-core gamers, but that's not always practical either.

We'll keep thinking about how to handle it for everyone. Thanks for bearing with us.

Oradnal
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I think Vortex is right 99.99% of people arent going to think he got 00:00 fairly, thanks.

Dragst
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Using common sense is also fairly OK. I'll give you an example of the game Pixel Purge:

Background info: #1 score is 1.4 billion, and #2 is 91 mil.

I can believe the 91 mil (just a matter of endurance if you know what you're doing) but the top #1 1.4 BILLION is way out of scope; no way it's legit.

You can score ~20mil in 45 minutes, maybe even less, so 1.4 bil / 20 mil = 1400 mil / 20 mil = 70. 70 x 45 mins = 3150 minutes which in hours is 52.5. I'm sorry but under any circumstances I will believe that. Also as an extra pointer, #1 does not have a country listed at all which also adds into suspicion.

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