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The whole concept of having "open" and "closed" Battle.net was genius. If you want to hack, be our guest! (But you can only play with other hackers.) That expe

The whole concept of having "open" and "closed" Battle.net was genius. If you want to hack, be our guest! (But you can only play with other hackers.) That experience of trying to mod my character was – I'm fairly certain – what eventually got me into programming! (Unfortunately I was on a Mac, so I couldn't use 90% of the so-called "trainers", much to my disappointment at the time.) I recall meeting one specific player on Open Battle.net (their username was "iceblizz", I think) whose hacked sorceress was unbelievably OP. They also had a super-cool personal website -- and both of those things really kindled my curiosity ( ... "How on Earth did they build that website?" ... "How are they so strong with negative 2 billion HP??")

grawprog 6y ago
Haha yeah that type of stuff was pretty amazing to me. I remember stone of Jordan rings and armour and stuff hacked with some unique bow quality that made your armour and stuff glowing white were 'the things to have' at least for a while. Though no two were alike and some people somehow had even more hacked shit than the pitiful programs I found could create. It did definitely introduce me to the world of being able to modify programs and playing with the data files of games. I feel like these days with the high stakes surrounding online gaming and.cheating and everything and just the money involved in the game industry sometimes fun gets left by the wayside.