So I just ended up open-sourcing the project.” Unfortunately, someone leaked my tool, and before I knew it, people started exchanging my tool for money. “I ended up sharing it with a few friends and some other modders so they didn’t have to go through all the hassle I had to go through. “My tool, D2ROffline, was originally designed to just bypass integrity checks that are part of the anti-cheating to prevent patching the client,” Belgian programmer Ferib Hellscream told Kotaku. And modders obliged, producing tools shortly after the alpha went live in April that allowed users to unlock classes that weren’t playable in the early build, play the game offline without a Technical Alpha invite, play the game after the end of the testing period, and even access multiplayer via unofficial servers. Blizzard’s “Technical Alpha” for Diablo II: Resurrected - a content-limited, invite-only, single-player experience that lasted just a few days - was practically begging to be poked, prodded, and datamined.
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