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**bungholio** · 09-30-2014, 03:51:52 PM

What grudge do they have against EA? The only thing EA has ever really done that annoyed me was that Dead Space 3's story flat out sucked and it annoyed me in countless ways making me think the game was an absolute failure in the story area, and I wish they'd take it all back and make anything else. But that disappointment happens, it's hard to avoid.

**dlevere** · 09-30-2014, 05:59:23 PM

By Paul Tassi

The Destiny issue has proved to be a significant headache for gamers in particular given the popularity of the game, and how it relies completely on live servers to do absolutely anything in the world, whether you’re part of a six man team trying to take down a raid boss, or simply wandering the countryside by yourself.

Twitter was filled last night with players bemoaning at what stage they’d been kicked out of a Destiny missions. Some were minutes away from killing the toughest boss in the game, others like me were simply annoyed that they’d sunk an hour into a high level Strike and were booted out during the final fight. In that case, there’s no way to simply reconnect and drop back into the same Strike at the same point, and the hour was more or less a complete waste.

Compared to the mayhem of a month ago, Lizard Squad has been relatively quiet over the past few weeks. For a stretch of time, they even appeared to disband, hinting that the authorities were coming for them and arresting their various reptilian members.

Lizard Squad took to Twitter and their own website to announce they were slinking away into the shadows, saying that feds had gotten to a few of their own. Here’s what were supposed to be their parting words:

“Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.”

“We set out on our journey 2 weeks ago with the plan to cause havoc within the gaming community Our motives varied throughout this adventure. Originally it was to see if we could evade being caught and to experience the raw thrill of anarchy, not being bound to phony laws. We’ve been called everything from an organized criminal “gang” to complete assholes, really we are just a bunch of guys with too much free time. Throughout our journey we met new people, gained new members, learned new things. People tried taking swings at us (and missed). We proved that even though we are little in this very big world, that a small group of friends who work together can cause a lot of havoc without legal repercussions. Today we will be disbanding, behind the green reptiles and other bullshit, we have lives believe it or not, things to do, people to meet. Goodbye.”

But despite talk of disbanding, in recent weeks the group is back to their old tricks, though it’s unknown if any of their members have indeed been caught by the authorities, as nothing of the kind has been publicly announced. In addition to periodic server takedowns, ten days ago they posted a picture of the gravestone of Sony executive John Smedley’s father, continuing their personal feud with the man whose flight they grounded.

They also suggested that a list of games journalists that were part of a shared email list (an issue which became central to the great #GamerGate drama storm) should be SWAT-ed, though it seems nothing became of that.

Their last major attack ahead of the past two weekends was a brief assault on Twitch around the time it was announced the streaming service was being bought by Amazon.

Again, the group does not appear to have a specific agenda other than simple annoyance. Video game companies hate them for the constant attacks. Video game fans hate them for knocking their favorite games offline and making them impossible to play. Other hackers hate them for not being “true” hackers, resorting only to DDoS attacks rather than anything more in-depth and involved. And yet they find “success” by attracting incredible amounts of attention for their disruption.

In the month since the PSN takedown and the bomb scare, we’ve heard next to nothing about the possible identities of those in the group, nor what authorities are doing to find them. In the grand scheme of things perhaps video game server takedowns aren’t too high on the FBI’s priority list, but it is a lot of lost revenue for these companies through service interruptions, not to mention a bomb threat to an airplane is something that usually requires someone to face justice eventually.

The fact remains that Lizard Squad may not be based in the US at all, requiring law enforcement to coordinate outside the country to try and locate them. And based on the country, that could prove timely and difficult.

Still, a month later, it’s irritating that seemingly little has been done to stop the group who continues to wielding some measure of power by taking down servers to disrupt popular games like Destiny and others.

More updates to follow, but if the pattern holds true, perhaps the group only works on weekends now.

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