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Is using an exploit in a video game to crash servers illegal?

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Is it illegal to crash a video game's server using nothing but in-game mechanics?

I found an exploit in a Steam survival game that can crash the server for about 5-10 minutes, booting everyone off the server. It uses nothing but in-game mechanics to do.

Is it considered a DoS attack? Or, since I'm just "playing the game" would it hold up in court?
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Well slap my tities and fuck me in the ass, thats a rare pepe
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Cum in my tummy sasuke
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>>375896875
What's the exploit?
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>>375896875
>be company
>give customer big red shiny self-destruct button
>have customer sign Terms of Service that they will never push the button

Yeah it would hold up in court. You signed the ToS dipshit. Don't tell me you just mindlessly scrolled through and accepted it because it had too many words to read.
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No, you're probably violating a ToS or something, but it's not illegal
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>>375896919
this
le upboat xD
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>>375896875
you should try getting a life instead
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>>375896875
It won't be considered a DoS attack, but expect in game repercussions when the devs figure out what your doing.
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>>375896875
Don't do it anon, what will the other 13 players do while they can't login?
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>>375896875
contact the devs and hope for a nice reward. At worst nothing changes, at best you get yourself something out of it. Main thing, you haven't done anything wrong.

Reminds of Ragnarok Online, where stacking Mi Gaos could lead to server crashes.
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>>375897515
Then can't they just turn around and sue me?
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>>375897725
If you haven't intentionally done it (bar for proving it, but then again they can't prove that), on what grounds would they?
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>>375897725

sue you for what? informing them that they did a shit job coding their game?
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>>375897846
For crashing their top servers for over 5 hours. :^)
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>>375896875
Post game and post crash. An explanation if not a webm.

Otherwise you're full of shit. Probably just copying the exploit that let that one dude from Overwatch crash the server.
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>>375896875

Reminds me of when I learned how to crash TF2 servers. I would use it on shitty maps until the server was convinced it was a problem with the maps, and got them to remove them from the map rotation.
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>>375897162
ToS don't matter in court you morron
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Stop crashing my ARK servers you twit
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>>375896875
>being afraid of the consequences AFTER you've done something
Truly the mark of a higher intellect.

Then again, you're an underage frogposter.
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>>375896875

So, Conan Exiles is still a fucking mess?
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>>375896875
If the intent was to deliberately damage, and there was a proven effect the server's crashing caused sales to drop or result in refunds, you could totally be sued.

But it ain't illegal though
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>>375896875
>remembering when magic missiles in terraria crashed the game every use
>could join private worlds through an ingame menu on xbox 360
>join real quick crash their game
now that i think about it that isnt so funny but it was fun
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What would be illegal about that? You might get banned if it's highly moderated, but even Riot with their trigger happy nature didn't ban people for that short time you could crash the game as Rammus.
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