I don’t even consider cyberattack a possibility since I assume all systems involved are completely airgapped. This was obviously something done from the inside.
There will always be places devoid of normies, thankfully. They exist in every platform, new and old. Knowledge of dog whistles will be necessary though…
I’m too lazy to look it up but there was some string you could send over IRC that would make some routers drop the connection immediately - if you pasted that string in a big channel you would see dozens of people immediately disconnect.
Have you tried using code generated by an LLM? It rarely runs at all until you fix it yourself.
It reminds me of how ezines would publish source codes to run exploits with slight errors so script kiddies couldn’t run them if they didn’t know how to fix them.
You have to reverse engineer the protocol encryption, which is illegal in some places. Also, lots of copyrighted material such as NPC names and quest text must be stored in the server and transmitted from the server to the client, which is piracy in plain terms.
First, to download the world of Warcraft client, you need to log into the battlenet client, which requires an account. Second, the world of Warcraft client is completely useless without a server to connect to. Alternative world of Warcraft servers are technically possible but illegal to run.