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Adrian the Video Game Hacker and GDC 2023

Hacked

CHAPTER

The Ethics of Shadowbane

Hacking for profit sounds really bad. But I knew I was doing it in an ethical way so I had no problem with it. You know, you want to stay stealthy. So I pretty much stayed underground for the longest time. My job was to just target a game, reverse engineer it, see how it works and then find some exploits in it. And if there was a game that provided items and currencies to players directly, that's a game I wouldn't target. For example, around 2013, it was kind of a lull and in gaming industry, there were like not many new MMOs being released.

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