I don't understand how RuneScape managed to get the traction it did. 2004 was the same year World of Warcraft came out!
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2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
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#32I wish the author got more into the weeds of anitcheat and how it evolved over time. Jagex was banning bots based on mouse movement heuristics in like 2005. 20 years later and there's some JS framework on the front page here heralding that same kind of analysis as some revolutionary new approach. I can only imagine what the modern anticheat engine entails, especially in the era of LLMs that can reliably emulate a hum…
I farmed tens of thousands of us dollars in modern RuneScape by unhooking the mousehook. It worked for decades.
Find call to `SetWindowsHookEx` -> Find dword (`HHOOK`) it returns -> Inject module that calls `UnhookWindowsHookEx((HHOOK)(module_base + hhook_rva));` -> profit.
Jagex has done some interesting things, but without fail, there is a blunder accompanying each.
Re: 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
#33I don't understand how RuneScape managed to get the traction it did. 2004 was the same year World of Warcraft came out!
They were two very different games and target audiences, with the incidental commonality that both are MMOs.
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#37Ultima online released in 1997 and required only a 28k modem. I also would argue it was a more complex game.
I played EverQuest on the PS2 using a modem in 2003. Performance was fine.
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#38I love how when Runescape gets posted on here, there’s always a few proud stories of how people cheated. Today one is even admitting to RWT (real world trading) for tens of thousands of $, when elsewhere one shuts up about it because cheaters in multiplayer gaming are regarded as the antisocial scum that make the game worse for everybody else. It’s not really something to brag about.
I guess one thing antisocial people lack is self-awareness.
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#39not to take away from the article, but some did with similar fidelity on 14.4k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_massively_multiplay... i think the author would find ultima online emulators interesting
Oh Britannia, how you were so amazing before the Tramel/Felucia split.
I played this as a young teen in 1998 and it's still the most powerful gaming experience and memories I have.
Re: 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
#40I wish the author got more into the weeds of anitcheat and how it evolved over time. Jagex was banning bots based on mouse movement heuristics in like 2005. 20 years later and there's some JS framework on the front page here heralding that same kind of analysis as some revolutionary new approach. I can only imagine what the modern anticheat engine entails, especially in the era of LLMs that can reliably emulate a hum…
“This is good for LLM.”
In reality since the new CEO, they have been much more strict with antibotting and they have virtually disappeared from the game. It’s been an incredible 6 months without major botfarms in the game. Botting subreddits have been on suicide watch since.