Shell Shock - The Turtle WoW Hack - Special Report 

Adding to the overall opinion : If they need money, drop the prices of items in the shop. I've checked the shop so many times wanting to buy, for example, the large bags and just didn't because it's too expensive. Would 100% buy more if the prices were to be slashed 50%

I love your take at the end. I didn't consider it, but you are so correct, the community is showing to be much stronger after this. And we should 100% laugh at clowns.

Thanks for the report! If the devs have money issues, they could make the shop items cheaper. I won't buy a mount for 50€, but if I could get 5 for 10€ each, I'd do it. If prices were at least halved more often, I would buy more things. Some of my characters still need repair bots, but I'm waiting for the sale. As it is right now, everything in the shop is way to expensive.

This was a critical and outstanding video delivered by the only man we could trust to do it right. Your dedication to we the community and your professionalism is beyond remarkable. Also your video just rocks in general.

I think the team did there best to solve the matter. inexperienced in Cyber Security? that's questionable I've seen much bigger company's get hacked. I look forward to continuing to play on Turtle wow for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for the report, Vrograg. You're a credit to the community! In lieu of the official bug tracker being down still, I'd like to let any GMs reading this know that the glyph masters are missing from *ALL* the starting zones on Tel'Abrim. Considering the challenges are part of what makes Turtle WoW so unique and fun, I hope they're back up soon!

Phenomenal coverage Vrograg, we are lucky to have you.

You are the best Vrograg. Thank you for this video!

I'm so sick and tired of salty basement dwellers still being unable to let some private server drama from 10 years ago go... I really don't care that Turtle devs (maybe even Torta) were part of item selling or whatever, they were probably teenagers at the time and we all make mistakes. The only thing I care about is that for the last SIX YEARS the Turtle team has been running the best private server I've ever seen with none of the corruption of past servers. They (if it is even true...) have been more than forgiven and have without a doubt earned their current reputation as the best WoW private server!

Feels like this video was mostly made for Daniel ... to show him he failed!

I for one am just super excited for Turtle WoW 2! I have dreamed of a WoW with an updated engine and graphics and am VERY much looking forward to experiencing that. All the crazy systems and gear grinding, and daily chores of current WoW (retail) has become too fucking much. Vanilla WoW truly was a great experience, and I know that now thanks to Turtle WoW. I am currently playing on a Wrath server because I like BC and Wrath a lot too. But I WILL be back for Turtle WoW 2!!!

A friend sent me a few screengrabs from the gmlogs showing that at least once they gave a player max gold and another showing honor being boosted by a gm. It could just be testing or something though so I'm not sure if it's actual wrongdoing or not. I think you also downplay how much they talked about using the chinese players to make money but whatever.

I asked a question about it in the discord and was banned. Any way to undo this?

I'm happy I started after this little fiasco. Hope this doesn't hold back the server in the coming future

@Vrograg A great report, Thank you. It’s good to see that true investigation journalism isn’t dead 👍

Thank you for the in-depth report Vrograg, I also loved the little drawings :D

My only problem after combing through the screenshots is the one mention of an exit scam. Tbf there's no other context provided in the screen , however it's not a good look. I'll keep playing on turtle cause I really don't wanna play anything else and I have 2 60's there already.

You can see in the source code leak, that they gave 'secret' stats boost to certain player characters.. I assume this is people from the staff that is also PVP'ers.

Where were the screenshots of GM chats and player data leaked to?

So, anyone who accessed the file shared with players linked to real names has permanent access to that information? How do I check to see if my name was accurate.

How can a turtle climb on top of a tree?

So, who's selling our data?

I don't understand the hack yet. If we don't know the exact way. How are you able to say it was an escalation of permissions hack?

So, been MIA from turtle for a couple if months and missed the hack. But here is the big picture takeaway. 1. TWoW didnt know a lot about cyber security but i reckon they took a crash course in it after. 2. Torta is sheena omg.... Yeah, most of us know the drama and pretty much agree with that statement even though it has been refuted by torta. We dont care man. 3. I still have mixed feelings about TWoW keeping their code private knowing what it was built upon. There is often a difference between what is right and what is fair, and i dont have the wisdom to know the correct course of action here. 4. While i feel the team did the best they could handling the situation, i feel they, both before and even more since the hack, have gotten a tad touchy and trigger happy with their power. That, however, is just a feeling.

at 13:06 I thought you were going to say Baron Rivendare

Vrograg how do you get the rewards you are eligble for if you changed password?

Great reporting, mr journalistfisherorc

Some weird people claims that turtle wow staff have ''shade people'' and their past is dark. If they don't damage me or take my data, I don't care about their lives and their past.

i was super faded questing late as hell and i just start seeing the n word and shit in chat as server announcements i was dying

L would be proud.

Nah, that Big Blizzard coming for their customer base boiiiiiiiiiiiii

dawumn daniel

Mfw people use their irl name as part of an email address they use on some Mongolian warcraft server

Are our payment details safe???

Calling him A clown and antagonizing him seems like a bad idea

Shenna hiding behind Torta and Crogge hiding behind Bowser says everthing about their character. Simply, putting their hiding things. CORRUPTION

Man

You've inspired me to research the leaked Turtle Dump myself.

Why the hell would you censor ? Lost all respect, bye

Is this independant reporting or affiliated to the server owners? to be honest, I am missing some professional distance here. The server owners are definitely at fault and you're withholding information, because you fear for their harassment? Let the information speak instead of pretending.

Lol so it wasn't even hacking... it was just a guessed password...

My response on the sheena issue got deleted so.. here again.. why not make an audio interview with torta so we can compare the audio with the leeked discord from elysium.. so people dont have to fear its the same person anymore

What a nice payed propaganda from Twow, love it

The way the Turtle WoW admins have danced around the Sheena issue has really turned me off from investing any further time in the server, sorry.

twow fall form grace

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Bit deserved, if the team can't provide security and if theyre banning everyone who gets political or their name is funny then yes deserved.

fun while it lasted, move on

Why would anybody play this trash

Great job @VrogragFishslayer