TLDR; Massive says the 4min raid time on PC is staying.
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Everyone knows 4min is impossible without blatant cheating/exploits, yet Massive says it is staying. The group of people who got the 4min have admitted it was unintentional and caused by one of their members disconnecting at some point and the timer bugging out. The players say the submitted a help ticket to Ubi/Massive requesting the time be removed. But Ubi/Massive decided to give a huge middle finger to the entire community and let this illigitmate time stand.
Hey! Sorry for the confusion here. I think the message on the forums hasn't really captured our current stance on this issue, so let me rephrase what we're currently looking at.
- The time looks very short and rather impossible and we're investigating it.
- We want to figure out what exactly happened and therefore need to look into the data and other surrounding factors to determine that.
- We have to make sure if there's a bug with what times are reported to the leaderboard, so we can fix it.
- Removing the time without the steps above might just lead to further issues with the leaderboards which we want to avoid.
Now, we're also not accusing anybody of purposefully exploiting a bug or cheating before we don't have everything figured out. If we do find that agents involved in the time purposefully cheated or exploited they will also be punished. When we can confirm that the time is 100% illegitimate and we ca...
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