Quote Originally Posted by Astarica View Post
At any rate usually the most common 'hacks' are really exploits. That is, doing stuff that is legally acceptable in the game in an unintended way. It's very difficult to hack your client to say "I have no GCD", but perhaps you can find a tricky combination of abilities that somehow reset your GCD. It's hard to say "I have Godmode", but perhaps you can find a clever way to stack certain buffs/items to have 100% chance avoidance which is usually good enough. Exploits cannot be stopped architecture design, because what you're doing is allowed by the game.
How do hackers steal gil when an online player goes near a market board? I've never heard of anything so crazy even in the dime-a-dozen Korean F2P MMO's. There's some pretty serious issues/vulnerabilities with this game. There's days I think SE took the 10 years of accumulated knowledge and experience they have in this genre and flushed it down the toilet before they set out to make this game.