Back in June, En Masse Entertainment (EME) put out an update that included the XIGNCODE “anti-cheat” system which they had made no mention of until someone in the player community noticed it on the update CDN (resulting in much uproar by many in the community). Myself, I was somewhat indifferent to it because even though I realize how ineffective these things are, for the most part, I’ve also never had problems with them running in other games.
EME posted a recent update mentioning they will be removing XIGNCODE in the November 13th update (Elin Brawler and Enhancement Point system). So the past 5 months of teeth gnashing could’ve been avoided had EME simply engaged a bit more with the player base regarding this and the whole DMCA takedown of some third party software which they also back peddled on (as noted in this linked message).
So this is some very poor decisions made by the TERA PC product management team; the 2nd one going back to taking the stance they had earlier regarding third party software (which goes against their terms of server) where its going to be a case-by-case scenario for those who may be potentially abusing such software.
The optics on this aren’t great at all because it does portray itself as a move which did cost them a lot of players (which even though in-game, there still a lot of players). It also makes their terms of service come across as weak (considering they also unbanned a lot of players which they had banned from as far back as 2016).
The root issue still exists primarily with Bluehole though with addressing the optimization problems (which according to this message, is something they are working on in stages) but also dealing with the security holes in their code.
