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Blizzhackers is an online community
located at Blizzhackers.com
that supports hacking for Blizzard Entertainment's games.
Created in 2001,
this site provided simple hacks such as the TPPK program which
altered gameplay in the content of dueling and player killing,
although there has been some controversy as to whether this was
good or bad.The site was started by
Nuttzy99, who also created the spell checking tool (and eponymous
website) SpellingCow.
History
Past
During
its past 4 year run, Nuttzy99 handed over the site to
co-administrator d-ArkAngel. In 2005, it hosted emulated
World of
Warcraft servers and Blizzard filed legal action against
d-ArkAngel, who ended up having to sign over the site domain name
to Blizzard Entertainment for copyright
infringement and disruption of business.This resulted in the site being taken down for roughly
6 months.As of now the site has come
back under the name of Nowhere", where
it continues to support modification of Blizzard's games, excluding
server emulation.
Present
As of now, the site is in its
5th year, and supports game modification for World of Warcraft
and Diablo 2, as well
as numerous other games.In addition, it
has provided for its userbase various generalized forums for the
discussion of technical issues, programming, and general
life. Blizzhackers (Edge of Nowhere) is
more than just a hacking forum.It is a
giant community of people that help eachother with everything, from
food recipes to relationship help.It's
userbase is a tight spun web of people that have been around for so
long that they almost know each other.
Media
Over the
period of its existence, Blizzhackers has been host to many of
Diablo II's most
popular bots, which are programs written to automate player tasks
within the game.Botting was most
prevalent during the v1.09 and v1.10 eras of Diablo II
on Battle.net, and forced Blizzard to retaliate with
strong anti-botting measures in the v1.11 patch.In late 2002, Syadasti, a member of Blizzhackers,
appeared on TechTV's
The
Screen Savers to demonstrate his bot, the first
Mephbot ever created.<ref>Gogulski, Mike (Dec.20, 2002)."Play
Tetris Within Diablo II" Accessed April 20,
2006.</ref>
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