Bug Random non-TPA friend names replacing others in leaderboard

[smbhax]

Saw this reported multiple times on Facebook yesterday and just ran into it today: checking my Friends leaderboards for a few tables, I noticed a random, non-TPA playing PSN friends' name replacing the name of one of the players--actually I think it was my own.

So yeah another weird apparently PSN-specific leaderboard bug.

 

[ER777]

I saw the same thing in a couple places. I scrolled through the full leaderboard until I got to the score and the name was listed as (null) so its apparently a missing ID issue. It must have to do with the way the code matches the friends list IDs to the leaderboard with a missing ID causing a false positive match.

 

[spoonman]

Aww man, not this again!

 

[Espy]

That explains why one of my friends who I knew didn't play pinball had quadrupled my score on ToTAN... and apparently hadn't played any other table in the game.

 

[MonkeyGrass]

Confirmed, sadly...

Can't you guys get this fixed FS? You're really on a roll, cheesin' off all the PS3 guys here... You know we ARE a valid platform and paid just as much money to play these tables as the others. Just in case you forgot - we like bug-fixes and working leaderboards too...

 

[smbhax]

From FarSight's Facebook page today:

The Pinball Arcade We have figured out what the cause is, but it won't be preventable until we release a patch... it is not present on every leaderboard, taxi, star trek, and a couple others are some of the affected tables.

 

[smbhax]

Another update:

The Pinball Arcade We made a change to the server code that runs every 5 minutes to update the leaderboards, so if you see them pop up they will be promptly deleted. A patch in the future should fix this issue on the client side too, but for now this solution should work.