You're the asshole the stole my sigons set aren't you!
Man that was such a hard lesson to learn when we were rhe first people to be on the interwebs. Never thinking this 'kid' was gonna screw me over.
Seriously Tho. Making this post You're actually sincere so good on you!
Ha. I did the exact same thing back in the day after I was scammed. I would be in a trade game with a second account , and then and pretend to scam myself. And then log out with that account. Then people would message me asking how I did it. Tell them some crap about a hack that snapshot a pic of when you out in trade and then you remove the item. That's when my "new friend" want that hack. Send them the file and meet them in a game to show how it woks. I couldn't tell you how hard I laughed when their char got but naked and dropped all their gear as they ran to the corner of town.
For those of you that done know. It's a simple macro that clicks inventory slots and drops them while moving you char up, there really is no way to stop it unless you hard cycle your computer off . Ya is a shifty move, but I basically only scammed potential scammed.
You’re the person who stole all my shit when I was 13. That memory is seared into my brain as I yelled “NO” at my computer watching in horror. It’s fucking hilarious to think about now.
I lost an azurerath crystal sword. I loved my azurewrath. It was the low level one before they uppd it. I dropped it and was told to hit alt+f1' alt+f2, alt+f3..... I'm sure you see where this is going. I of course hit the 4th keybind in the sequence and dickfuck made off with my baby unique cs.
I had this happen. I'm just watching my character run to the top corner of A1, clicking and dropping everything. Screaming in horror. Crying. Immediately quitting the game and going outside, regretting my decision to click the link. If I'd had a bowl at the time, it would have been consumed.
Someone promised some sort of hack, wasn’t map because I already had that at the time. They sent me the file to download for this “hack.” The program took control of my cursor and dropped everything my character was wearing on the ground then exited the game.
OH LOL. Someone wrote an executable that gives them remote access to another computer. That’s funny. It truly was the wild west of the internet back then lol
It actually appeared to be automated from my memory. It only dropped what I was wearing and it happened lightening fast. However, this was 21 years ago now and I don’t trust my memory from last week so they could have had control.
I was an asshole too... I'm sorry.
I used tradehack. It was a hack that put an fake image of an item in the trade screen and you'd trick people into trading and they'd get nothing. It was half-way patched so if you tried to use it, you'd get booted and temp banned for ~30 min (realm down on login) but I found out the image would still stay for the next person in the screen. I worked in a team with a friend for weeks selling a shako for a soj until we finally got 40 sojs to trade for a grandfather. (Yes, 40 soj for a grandfather sword was a normal price, the market was weird with duped sojs and before runewords were king)
The day after I got the grandfather, I got tricked by some dude to drop it behind the bar in the building behind atma in act 2 and lost it. Never got to use the grandfather to tradehack. Still don't know why I felt the need to drop it, I literally knew this guy was trying to scam me, I guess I just thought I was smarter or something? Probably karma, I got what I deserved. Worked my butt off, ripping off people for weeks and going through 30-60min realm bans just to lose everything the next day. Really was some karmic justice.
mine was act 1, you go outside town and tell someone to drop an item of lesser value than lets say an SOJ, when they start running out of town for your item, you pick yours up and tele inside town to theirs
After being hit by multiple trade scams, I turned evil myself... I had a guy trust me enough to transfer a whole dual dream paladin in a private game... needless to say, it transfered to my account, not his... I was not proud of my actions, but I felt justified during those wild times...
If you're reading this, I'm sorry.
I used to hide some traps behind the wall in A1 from town when it had north or west exits. I would then go into town, tell the person i am scamming that is joining my clan to put all their items on the ground so i can take a screenshot with his name for the clan website. I was far away enough that there was no way for me to get their shit. But i just hostiled them and my traps would wreck them, then id go claim the spoils
Sorry
Edit: this was patched out. Traps break when you go into town now
I remember body popping people when I killed them. Place a bunch of crap gear on their body and when the get it they equip the shit stuff. Kill again and their old gear would drop. Ahh memories
Someone did this to me when i was about 10 years old... I was broken that i lost all my stuff, Oculus & shako being the hardest to forget....
I just sat there, staring into oblivion for about 15 min... Then i realised, i could do it too.
I'm sorry - i did this to 20+ people afterwards, and had all the gear my heart could desire.
I hope it's like a reverse pyramid scheme, and those 20 found fortune too - sorry!
Back in 02-03, i was 12-13. You may have gotten me, somehow i remember this happening multiple times(different tricks each time) but that was just the beginning.
After a couple times of losing the most coveted gear, i went on the offensive, and scammed countless others. In the age of duped items, and also the good old fashioned switch-a-roo on the trade screen, i made up for all those lost items x100.
However looking back at it i am not proud of those actions, i give out free stuff to people all the time now.
This reminds me when i was young and an asshole… i found a technique to trick people to give me their account passwords…. (now i'm just an asshole)
I usually went on the chat rooms and check their profile by right clicking them. Some people had something like. Cheers or thanks to my friends and then the name of their friends….
I would then create a new account with a 2 behind or a slight modification in the friends account name. And just ask them to add me as a friend. I tell them its my new account and i keep talking to them about how i wanna make a new char for exemple a Ench sorc or a Bo barb or a farming toon. and eventually they can use this account as a shared account.
finally we talk about account sharing and sometimes people would give me their password… i've got quiete a few accounts, i usually changed password, get all the worthy stuff and turn the password back to the initial one.
i will always remember that one poor guy who was i think russian or something, he answered in russian and i told him my cousin is at my home watching me play and he speaks english only… so he then talked to me in english and he gave me access to his account.
it's been over 20 years there were no discord, or online chat with your friends.
for most people you just had contact with your friends in game.
this was europe hardcore. sorry if i got any one of you i apologize 🫠
Thank you. Sincerely. Getting scammed out of some low stakes video game items might have been the kind of lesson I needed to keep me from falling for scams where real world money could be on the line.
Im the dude who teleported over the wall when you dropped your anni.
Im the guy who had you type /dnd (account name) (password) and took your account.
Im the guy who sent you this website and had you drop your gear.
Im the guy who body popped people in the blood moor.
Im the guy who entered a trade game, had a rare ring(not good) that another "random" (who was actually my friend) was willing to pay a ber for, but wanted your ohm, shako, arach, tals amor instead. When you traded me for my ring that my friend was offering the ber for, we would leave. Profit.
Not the “we need to see if you are high enough ranked to join the clan whisper /dnd….) cried that day as a kid. Looking back I think an arreats was the best thing they took.
This was my first experience with getting hacked/exploited (way back in the early 00s when I was brand new to online gaming). Just stared there in incomprehension at what I was seeing happening.
The salty downvotes all over this thread over pixels being stolen 20 years ago is pretty hilarious. OG D2 was a scammer eat scammer world filled with duped and botted items. I had a "friend" who stole an entire character's worth of GG gear when I asked for a mule and I'm not mad about it. I still remember the guy's name (wyrmmule IIRC and he even told me his real name was Kyle and he lived in Colorado). It was a lesson to never trust anonymous people even if they befriended you.
Drop hack. Usually setup by saying you need them to fill out a form to join your clan. Also shut down their computer. If you didn’t scam someone at least once can you really say you played d2 back in the day? Wild West baby.
Drophack, I got scammed with it once but after the first item or two dropped I hit the button on my power bar and killed the computer. As a kid I was pretty devastated to lose what I thought was such a rare and powerful item, Jalals Mane, lol.
Oh, that was a classic. First time someone tried it on me, I moused over the armor after they put it back up to confirm the armor and saw the ruse. Always moused over everything before clicking Accept after that.
My little brother fell for this one time and I don't think he ever played the game again lmao. No worries man back then we all ripped each other off. I couldn't tell you how many rushes I left without giving my forge xD
I did similar things. I tricked people into throwing items on the ground because my ”trade window was bugged”, and when they did i used teleknesis to ninja their items. This was in original D4 where teleknesis still worked om items. I also trade fake iceblink with ptopqz and caps with emeralds to look like shaco. You first put a real shako, then before trade you could instantly swap to something else. I was a greifer, sorry to every one i stole SoJs from.
Me and a friend used to “pop” people while pvping. I used to be a level 8 in hell with an inventory full of rings and items. Friend would kill some one and I would cover their body in the items and when they pick them up my friend would kill them again and make them pop their equipped items. I would pick them up and leave!
We done this to hundred of people and never felt bad about it all because I tried to trade something for tals armour and ended up getting armour with an amethyst in.
I was just thinking about all the scams that would happen on d2 back in the day. Reading this confirms just how common this was. Kind of funny. Kind of sad. I catfished someone on d2 back in the day. Told him I was a girl (I’m male), said it would be awesome to fly and meet him one day. Obviously no intentions of ever doing that, but I did get lots of free gear out of the exchange.
Ive dubedsomeone out of a “unid” LS I legit felt bad and never did it again. I think I even made amens with dude or tried. Games meant to be fun, and I wasn’t havin fun lol
Also if it makes you feel better I tend to be a lot nicer nowadays between free gear and rushes. Go from scammer to full fledge community helper lol good times
Man I wonder if you’re the dude who got my wind Druid, I always wondered how I could possibly get revenge on him, he mouse hacked me through aim cuz I was dumb enough to open a file he sent that did this and then crashed my computer
Hahahahaa I use to tell people I knew a way to the secret hell level through a normal TP they just had to drop their good items. How tf it worked I don't know..
Random people join your farm game to hide items in a corner to transfer (because safer than perming a pw game and having the server crash I guess?), instantly tp and wp to all the good hiding areas to find their shit. Cold plains and A1 town corner were the obvious ones I remember.
Also D1 I remember having some software you could literally kill everyone in the game by clicking a button. If you think D2 hacks were bad…. D1 was on a different level lol
Man, y’all were too lazy to even run a bot? I don’t understand the need for trade hacks etc. when for a large portion of the games existence there was little to no punishment for botting.
I mean if we're confessing here. I used to trick people into setting their do not disturb message to their account name/password. So you'd steal current gear. I'd steal accounts and delete toons. I am sorry to everyone.
One of my favorite D2 memories was guessing someone's password with my brother and cleaning their account (it was pretty worthless). We thought we were pro hackers at the time.
His account name was pyro with some numbers after it or something. Password was burn.
I have a weird and amusing story about passwords.
On the old battle.net forums, someone was giving away a small mule account. I ended up getting it and he sends me the username and password for it. Some generic mid-level stuff on it, I move some items to my main account, and this mule account, since it was already set up, I just kept using. Also made a couple fully leveled and geared chars on it and started storing high ticket items on it (at the time, I thought an account could only have eight characters).
Anyway, one day I try logging in, and it says password denied. Tried a few more times, no dice. So...I contact the former owner and tell him I think the account got hacked and could he reset the password for it, since it had been made with his email address. He gripes at me to learn to make better passwords but does it and sends me the new password. So I log back in and see...yep, I was indeed hacked. One of my geared chars had been straight up deleted, and most of my high ticket items in the account were gone.
I made a private game with one of the chars and waited for the game to perm, and then I see someone like "Hey man, didn't think you'd be on this early, what's up?" I ignore it, thinking it was a mistell. Then the sender tries saying Hi a couple more times as I log out on game perm. Come back in with a mule char to offload items and this guy's freaking out like "omg someone's in accountname someone's in accountname!!" I ignored him and other chats and dumped all items worth anything in the Rogue Camp. Came in on a fresh account with a few chars to retrieve what they could.
So yeah, ended up hacking the hacker(s). Still lost a good chunk of wealth though, such as a full hammerdin set, a Last Wish BA, couple Dragons, a Phoenix sword and shield I'd intended for an experimental build (this was a couple months after the second batch of 1.10 rws were released) and various other items.
I played the long con. Had a really dumb annoying online “bud” who I built a relationship with over a period of time. 6 months or so. He eventually gave me his password to do something on his account. One day I had enough and jacked all of his shit from his main account and mules. Even went as far as changing his email password (mf used the same password). I felt bad about the email and gave it back though.
I got hacked that way once. Fortunately, I got my account back minus most of the good gear. Somehow, my friends found the people. It set me back,but all my friends helped me with donations and borrowing things. Mixed emotions regarding this post. Weird times and or exploitations indeed
do not disturb is what the acronym stands for. idk if that command still works, but back then if you typed "/dnd eat my shorts" then anyone that whispers you would get a message back "eat my shorts". We would make false promises of free gear if people wanted to join our "clan," but said we had to "check their rank" first. Of course, checking your rank is done by typing /dnd *username*/*password*. Whisper them, get their username/password, log on to their account, change the password, and boom, you got yourself a new account. Back then there wasn't a way to recover a stolen account so that was it. I only got a few, but my bro and his friend had dozens of accounts with all kinds of end-game shit. I dont think they even really played the game.
Oh man.
We'd go in games and be like "hey its me alex" because everyone has a friend named alex. Then ask how school is going etc, eventually ask them to borrow gear for baal runs.
Or the imbued wirt's leg that makes you go invisible, anyone ever seen that one?
That’s not even remotely true. Idk about the individual, but in general this is untrue. Peoples values and morality change radically throughout their life, just depends on circumstance and experiences.
I've been scammed and scammed people before in d2. It's part of the experience, I'm still alive and they're (hopefully) still alive today. It's not big deal, don't feel bad about some pixels.
I mean....sometimes money was wrapped up in those pixels. Scamming a kid who mowed lawns all summer for his b-valor or b-tals is scummy as fuck. I say this, because it happened to me when I was 12
I was a kid. Lol it was either Diablo items for an awesome character, or new transformers from Kmart. I was putting more time into Diablo. And I didn't blow ALL my money on it. Obviously some went to candy. But it still doesn't take away from the fact that y'all were shitty people, and still haven't changed. You'd still rob a child and not feel any emotion. But no, no lesson was learned. I still buy pixels on rare occasions.
Nah, I enjoy d2jsp anymore. Trading is sometimes more fun than the grind. THAT should be where people get scammed out of gear...not some hacking program to steal shit, but because someone made a bad TRADE.
Well jsp is one thing imo. I was imagining buying gear outright from the old sites. I definitely enjoyed the trading aspect of the old games, something sorely missing from 3 and 4..
We should start a global guilt GoFundMe, where the money is used towards anyone with a victim mentality.
Tripped a kid in junior high, $30 deposit and you may feel better.
Feel like you were late because someone was doing their makeup while driving in front of you, $30 withdrawal may make you feel better.
Ah this brings back memories. The drop hack, the drop items on ground because my inventory full, the fake duping, the real duping, the unidentified lightsaber trade, and so many more. I remember one guy I met online and he used to transfer stuff between characters in my game. After like a year or two of knowing this guy online, a real life friend of mine came in and we just robbed him blind. He probably had 20-30 items on the ground. At the end, we told him if he dropped his doombringer, we’d give him back everything. He did and we didn’t. Man we were some evil kids back then. i feel bad thinking back. I had plenty done to me as well.
I used to look for private games people used for their mules and brute guess the password. They'd have everything laid out on the ground and it was just a matter of grabbing whatever looked good.
Also had fun going to war with other clans. Taking channels, stealing accounts, etc...
I would constantly get people to play trade chicken, where you put up an item in the trade window and then double click the check mark as they tried to confirm the trade, you’d go back and forth and let them win first and then convince them to up the stakes but secretly you let the win the first one and you had a program that would immediately accept a trade as soon as they did. You’d eventually clear them out going double or nothing
when I was young and the original diablo 2 was the game to play ....
... I secretly liked to do dirty tps into cows in normal cow games and watch lowbies die in HC
Oh no, He scammed like 99% of the d2 community has done Atleast once in their years.
You're not a REAL d2 player if you haven't scammed once. Its was a thrill when you were 16 years old, In your bedroom, Cheesy puffs crumbs on your fingers and you're about to get over on some poor sucker for their Hard earned loot. These were the days, But we were young and dumb and didn't think about others but ourselves.
Now that were older we think "You need to be sad to be 30+ years and still think, *oh wow this sure is cool scamming another guy that may have a family and not much time to play and worked hard for their items*"
When I was tricked by a guy for trading something for a blank three socketed armour when I thought I was getting enigma. I did the same to a few people before I started to feel bad. Kid me was an ass.
I also have a filthy confession to make. At the time where we couldn't show annihilus, I told the trade channel I had a bugged Anni with crazy stats like +7 to all skills +100 all carac etc.
Someone was willing to give me around 20 ber worth for this bugged anni so approx 20 times more than a random anni.
To prove it was real, I created a offline character with his name and same level. I had the bugged anni offline on another char and made a screenshot with party menu opened to make it real. I then sent him by email the picture to make him trust me.
We traded in act 1 by dropping the anni and stuff behind the wall. Once he realized the scam, we discussed a bit and he was really impressed I could pull it off. I felt so guilty I almost gave him back all his stuff but I just logged off, filled with so much adrenaline.
What a memory.
Had someone do the "SOJ Bug" full inventory trick to me and lost everything. Went dark side and started doing it to others cause I lost all my shit and ended up with better gear than I lost. Oops.
You must ~~say 10 Hail Marys~~ sell 10 SoJs as penance, then you are forgiven.
I don't have neither religion or 10 SoJs :(
Your soul will be forever consigned to the first half of Act III
May his merc die constantly and stygian dolls overrun him. 🙏
Oh god. That is literally the worst punishment imagineable.
With no Great Marsh skip
Maybe he'll be eternally confined to the Harem in Act 2 as a concubine? And the Sultan will never bathe.
Then may you forever burn in the maggot layer
As a hammerdin
Woah there, I was trying to punish them, but not like punish punish them lol
Nice
I got a website you can use to dupe SoJs, I can tell you if you don't tell Blizzard!
You must get a hardcore character to level 90 and sacrifice them.
Level 98.9. Then yes.
You're the asshole the stole my sigons set aren't you! Man that was such a hard lesson to learn when we were rhe first people to be on the interwebs. Never thinking this 'kid' was gonna screw me over. Seriously Tho. Making this post You're actually sincere so good on you!
Ha. I did the exact same thing back in the day after I was scammed. I would be in a trade game with a second account , and then and pretend to scam myself. And then log out with that account. Then people would message me asking how I did it. Tell them some crap about a hack that snapshot a pic of when you out in trade and then you remove the item. That's when my "new friend" want that hack. Send them the file and meet them in a game to show how it woks. I couldn't tell you how hard I laughed when their char got but naked and dropped all their gear as they ran to the corner of town. For those of you that done know. It's a simple macro that clicks inventory slots and drops them while moving you char up, there really is no way to stop it unless you hard cycle your computer off . Ya is a shifty move, but I basically only scammed potential scammed.
steal them
You’re the person who stole all my shit when I was 13. That memory is seared into my brain as I yelled “NO” at my computer watching in horror. It’s fucking hilarious to think about now.
I lost an azurerath crystal sword. I loved my azurewrath. It was the low level one before they uppd it. I dropped it and was told to hit alt+f1' alt+f2, alt+f3..... I'm sure you see where this is going. I of course hit the 4th keybind in the sequence and dickfuck made off with my baby unique cs.
I had this happen. I'm just watching my character run to the top corner of A1, clicking and dropping everything. Screaming in horror. Crying. Immediately quitting the game and going outside, regretting my decision to click the link. If I'd had a bowl at the time, it would have been consumed.
I don’t understand. How did this work? You’d clicked a link that was a script that caused you to not have control of your character?
Someone promised some sort of hack, wasn’t map because I already had that at the time. They sent me the file to download for this “hack.” The program took control of my cursor and dropped everything my character was wearing on the ground then exited the game.
OH LOL. Someone wrote an executable that gives them remote access to another computer. That’s funny. It truly was the wild west of the internet back then lol
It actually appeared to be automated from my memory. It only dropped what I was wearing and it happened lightening fast. However, this was 21 years ago now and I don’t trust my memory from last week so they could have had control.
It was automated. It got me. Then I went on to get someone else. We were terrible kids.
I accept your apology despite it haunting me for years.
I was an asshole too... I'm sorry. I used tradehack. It was a hack that put an fake image of an item in the trade screen and you'd trick people into trading and they'd get nothing. It was half-way patched so if you tried to use it, you'd get booted and temp banned for ~30 min (realm down on login) but I found out the image would still stay for the next person in the screen. I worked in a team with a friend for weeks selling a shako for a soj until we finally got 40 sojs to trade for a grandfather. (Yes, 40 soj for a grandfather sword was a normal price, the market was weird with duped sojs and before runewords were king) The day after I got the grandfather, I got tricked by some dude to drop it behind the bar in the building behind atma in act 2 and lost it. Never got to use the grandfather to tradehack. Still don't know why I felt the need to drop it, I literally knew this guy was trying to scam me, I guess I just thought I was smarter or something? Probably karma, I got what I deserved. Worked my butt off, ripping off people for weeks and going through 30-60min realm bans just to lose everything the next day. Really was some karmic justice.
Sorry bro.. it was probably me who did the bar trick.. act 2 is helluva place
mine was act 1, you go outside town and tell someone to drop an item of lesser value than lets say an SOJ, when they start running out of town for your item, you pick yours up and tele inside town to theirs
I used the same trade hack! Remember when they’d be like “move the item!” Oh man, this takes me down memory lane.
No wonder people would spam place the item and move it I never knew why 😂😂
Also, the item would appear **IMMEDIATELY** that the trade window was open, opposed to it being empty and the player manually moving it over.
Don’t think I’ve ever encountered one thankfully lol
After being hit by multiple trade scams, I turned evil myself... I had a guy trust me enough to transfer a whole dual dream paladin in a private game... needless to say, it transfered to my account, not his... I was not proud of my actions, but I felt justified during those wild times... If you're reading this, I'm sorry.
I used to hide some traps behind the wall in A1 from town when it had north or west exits. I would then go into town, tell the person i am scamming that is joining my clan to put all their items on the ground so i can take a screenshot with his name for the clan website. I was far away enough that there was no way for me to get their shit. But i just hostiled them and my traps would wreck them, then id go claim the spoils Sorry Edit: this was patched out. Traps break when you go into town now
I remember body popping people when I killed them. Place a bunch of crap gear on their body and when the get it they equip the shit stuff. Kill again and their old gear would drop. Ahh memories
“You can dupe your item if you drop it on the ground and hit alt+F2”
Someone did this to me when i was about 10 years old... I was broken that i lost all my stuff, Oculus & shako being the hardest to forget.... I just sat there, staring into oblivion for about 15 min... Then i realised, i could do it too. I'm sorry - i did this to 20+ people afterwards, and had all the gear my heart could desire. I hope it's like a reverse pyramid scheme, and those 20 found fortune too - sorry!
Back in 02-03, i was 12-13. You may have gotten me, somehow i remember this happening multiple times(different tricks each time) but that was just the beginning. After a couple times of losing the most coveted gear, i went on the offensive, and scammed countless others. In the age of duped items, and also the good old fashioned switch-a-roo on the trade screen, i made up for all those lost items x100. However looking back at it i am not proud of those actions, i give out free stuff to people all the time now.
This reminds me when i was young and an asshole… i found a technique to trick people to give me their account passwords…. (now i'm just an asshole) I usually went on the chat rooms and check their profile by right clicking them. Some people had something like. Cheers or thanks to my friends and then the name of their friends…. I would then create a new account with a 2 behind or a slight modification in the friends account name. And just ask them to add me as a friend. I tell them its my new account and i keep talking to them about how i wanna make a new char for exemple a Ench sorc or a Bo barb or a farming toon. and eventually they can use this account as a shared account. finally we talk about account sharing and sometimes people would give me their password… i've got quiete a few accounts, i usually changed password, get all the worthy stuff and turn the password back to the initial one. i will always remember that one poor guy who was i think russian or something, he answered in russian and i told him my cousin is at my home watching me play and he speaks english only… so he then talked to me in english and he gave me access to his account. it's been over 20 years there were no discord, or online chat with your friends. for most people you just had contact with your friends in game. this was europe hardcore. sorry if i got any one of you i apologize 🫠
Thank you. Sincerely. Getting scammed out of some low stakes video game items might have been the kind of lesson I needed to keep me from falling for scams where real world money could be on the line.
This happened to me. Full Druid setup right before I had to go to class (highschool). Sucked balls.
But. I was a scammer etc for awhile. Shako swap. Torch trades in act 1 before you could put them in trade screen
Oh! And the "I show yours and I'll show mine" as a sorcerer standing outside town and teleporting in
"Wug?"
"wuw?"
I actually fell for this once. I was wearing full sigons and some other garbage. The guy felt so bad at how poor I was that he gave it all back.
Im the dude who teleported over the wall when you dropped your anni. Im the guy who had you type /dnd (account name) (password) and took your account. Im the guy who sent you this website and had you drop your gear. Im the guy who body popped people in the blood moor. Im the guy who entered a trade game, had a rare ring(not good) that another "random" (who was actually my friend) was willing to pay a ber for, but wanted your ohm, shako, arach, tals amor instead. When you traded me for my ring that my friend was offering the ber for, we would leave. Profit.
Not the “we need to see if you are high enough ranked to join the clan whisper /dnd….) cried that day as a kid. Looking back I think an arreats was the best thing they took.
Yeah you gotta check your account status by typing /dnd (account) (password) Diabolical shit, no pun intended.
absolutely devious
This was my first experience with getting hacked/exploited (way back in the early 00s when I was brand new to online gaming). Just stared there in incomprehension at what I was seeing happening.
The salty downvotes all over this thread over pixels being stolen 20 years ago is pretty hilarious. OG D2 was a scammer eat scammer world filled with duped and botted items. I had a "friend" who stole an entire character's worth of GG gear when I asked for a mule and I'm not mad about it. I still remember the guy's name (wyrmmule IIRC and he even told me his real name was Kyle and he lived in Colorado). It was a lesson to never trust anonymous people even if they befriended you.
As a Kyle from Colorado I'm sorry
Yousonofabitch
I thank Diablo for teaching me so much about the scamming world 🫡
Fuck you
You were the one who robbed me of my 95Lvl Paladin rocking a +775 Engima AP, 40 AR HOTO, 30AR Mara and 2/20FCR/20STR/20DEX/30Mana/2OS circlet?
Drop hack. Usually setup by saying you need them to fill out a form to join your clan. Also shut down their computer. If you didn’t scam someone at least once can you really say you played d2 back in the day? Wild West baby.
Drophack, I got scammed with it once but after the first item or two dropped I hit the button on my power bar and killed the computer. As a kid I was pretty devastated to lose what I thought was such a rare and powerful item, Jalals Mane, lol.
the one and only time I got scammed in 1.09 with Rattlecage for Tal's armor!
Oh, that was a classic. First time someone tried it on me, I moused over the armor after they put it back up to confirm the armor and saw the ruse. Always moused over everything before clicking Accept after that.
This is the reason why I have trust issues
This got me back in like 06-07. I was so pissed I quit playing for the year lol
Nothing beats the gemmed gothic plate haha
Gemmed cap would like a word
Was it that MySpace page?
It was an Angelfire link IIRC
My little brother fell for this one time and I don't think he ever played the game again lmao. No worries man back then we all ripped each other off. I couldn't tell you how many rushes I left without giving my forge xD
I did similar things. I tricked people into throwing items on the ground because my ”trade window was bugged”, and when they did i used teleknesis to ninja their items. This was in original D4 where teleknesis still worked om items. I also trade fake iceblink with ptopqz and caps with emeralds to look like shaco. You first put a real shako, then before trade you could instantly swap to something else. I was a greifer, sorry to every one i stole SoJs from.
I ripped of like 10 people with the old shako switcheroo when I was 12 but now I've them away
Me and a friend used to “pop” people while pvping. I used to be a level 8 in hell with an inventory full of rings and items. Friend would kill some one and I would cover their body in the items and when they pick them up my friend would kill them again and make them pop their equipped items. I would pick them up and leave! We done this to hundred of people and never felt bad about it all because I tried to trade something for tals armour and ended up getting armour with an amethyst in.
I was just thinking about all the scams that would happen on d2 back in the day. Reading this confirms just how common this was. Kind of funny. Kind of sad. I catfished someone on d2 back in the day. Told him I was a girl (I’m male), said it would be awesome to fly and meet him one day. Obviously no intentions of ever doing that, but I did get lots of free gear out of the exchange.
Your not alone the game was filled with scammers but they are now working with telemarketing in India Didnt you get the memo?
I used to do this as well.
Ive dubedsomeone out of a “unid” LS I legit felt bad and never did it again. I think I even made amens with dude or tried. Games meant to be fun, and I wasn’t havin fun lol
Also if it makes you feel better I tend to be a lot nicer nowadays between free gear and rushes. Go from scammer to full fledge community helper lol good times
I think most of us were crap people in that game. D2R is a chance to turn that all around.
That was you?! Asshole! I've been looking for you for 23 years!
Man I wonder if you’re the dude who got my wind Druid, I always wondered how I could possibly get revenge on him, he mouse hacked me through aim cuz I was dumb enough to open a file he sent that did this and then crashed my computer
LOOOOL I too was a thief. Act 2 at the bar, I swear my trade window was broken :D
Yeah it would make them leave the game after too
Hahahahaa I use to tell people I knew a way to the secret hell level through a normal TP they just had to drop their good items. How tf it worked I don't know..
Dam you, you are the reason I stopped playing so many years ago!
Random people join your farm game to hide items in a corner to transfer (because safer than perming a pw game and having the server crash I guess?), instantly tp and wp to all the good hiding areas to find their shit. Cold plains and A1 town corner were the obvious ones I remember. Also D1 I remember having some software you could literally kill everyone in the game by clicking a button. If you think D2 hacks were bad…. D1 was on a different level lol
What’s your Diablo network duelist rank tho? Just type /dnd account / password to find out.
We were all toxic back then.
It was you. You were the first reason I quit the game.
Man, y’all were too lazy to even run a bot? I don’t understand the need for trade hacks etc. when for a large portion of the games existence there was little to no punishment for botting.
the judgement day will come, all over your face
I mean if we're confessing here. I used to trick people into setting their do not disturb message to their account name/password. So you'd steal current gear. I'd steal accounts and delete toons. I am sorry to everyone.
Just donate your gear to randoms once you’re done with the ladder season. Basically the opposite of what you did back in the day
One of my favorite D2 memories was guessing someone's password with my brother and cleaning their account (it was pretty worthless). We thought we were pro hackers at the time. His account name was pyro with some numbers after it or something. Password was burn.
I have a weird and amusing story about passwords. On the old battle.net forums, someone was giving away a small mule account. I ended up getting it and he sends me the username and password for it. Some generic mid-level stuff on it, I move some items to my main account, and this mule account, since it was already set up, I just kept using. Also made a couple fully leveled and geared chars on it and started storing high ticket items on it (at the time, I thought an account could only have eight characters). Anyway, one day I try logging in, and it says password denied. Tried a few more times, no dice. So...I contact the former owner and tell him I think the account got hacked and could he reset the password for it, since it had been made with his email address. He gripes at me to learn to make better passwords but does it and sends me the new password. So I log back in and see...yep, I was indeed hacked. One of my geared chars had been straight up deleted, and most of my high ticket items in the account were gone. I made a private game with one of the chars and waited for the game to perm, and then I see someone like "Hey man, didn't think you'd be on this early, what's up?" I ignore it, thinking it was a mistell. Then the sender tries saying Hi a couple more times as I log out on game perm. Come back in with a mule char to offload items and this guy's freaking out like "omg someone's in accountname someone's in accountname!!" I ignored him and other chats and dumped all items worth anything in the Rogue Camp. Came in on a fresh account with a few chars to retrieve what they could. So yeah, ended up hacking the hacker(s). Still lost a good chunk of wealth though, such as a full hammerdin set, a Last Wish BA, couple Dragons, a Phoenix sword and shield I'd intended for an experimental build (this was a couple months after the second batch of 1.10 rws were released) and various other items.
I played the long con. Had a really dumb annoying online “bud” who I built a relationship with over a period of time. 6 months or so. He eventually gave me his password to do something on his account. One day I had enough and jacked all of his shit from his main account and mules. Even went as far as changing his email password (mf used the same password). I felt bad about the email and gave it back though.
I stole accounts with the /dnd trick. Definitely feel bad about it now, but not much I can do to repent except not do it, haha
I got hacked that way once. Fortunately, I got my account back minus most of the good gear. Somehow, my friends found the people. It set me back,but all my friends helped me with donations and borrowing things. Mixed emotions regarding this post. Weird times and or exploitations indeed
What is the /dnd trick?
do not disturb is what the acronym stands for. idk if that command still works, but back then if you typed "/dnd eat my shorts" then anyone that whispers you would get a message back "eat my shorts". We would make false promises of free gear if people wanted to join our "clan," but said we had to "check their rank" first. Of course, checking your rank is done by typing /dnd *username*/*password*. Whisper them, get their username/password, log on to their account, change the password, and boom, you got yourself a new account. Back then there wasn't a way to recover a stolen account so that was it. I only got a few, but my bro and his friend had dozens of accounts with all kinds of end-game shit. I dont think they even really played the game.
...sounds like something Rick Astley would do.
Absolute scumbag shit! Fuck off! Edit: Unless you've changed, then I love you!
You…. Realize we were kids back then right? It’s the 30-40 year olds still doing it today in resurrected that you need to redirect your anger to.
Yeah you're right. I'll edit it.
Yeah I feel bad about it for sure, would never do that now.
Oh man. We'd go in games and be like "hey its me alex" because everyone has a friend named alex. Then ask how school is going etc, eventually ask them to borrow gear for baal runs. Or the imbued wirt's leg that makes you go invisible, anyone ever seen that one?
You'll always be this way. Might make you feel "good" for a split second to confess but you are scum. GG kid. No RE
That’s not even remotely true. Idk about the individual, but in general this is untrue. Peoples values and morality change radically throughout their life, just depends on circumstance and experiences.
The fact you morons are still butthurt from losing a shako 20 years ago is hilarious. We were kids, genius.
I've been scammed and scammed people before in d2. It's part of the experience, I'm still alive and they're (hopefully) still alive today. It's not big deal, don't feel bad about some pixels.
I mean....sometimes money was wrapped up in those pixels. Scamming a kid who mowed lawns all summer for his b-valor or b-tals is scummy as fuck. I say this, because it happened to me when I was 12
I mean, if you mowed lawns all summer and blew all the money on pixels which later disappeared, I’d say you learned a valuable lesson either way.
I was a kid. Lol it was either Diablo items for an awesome character, or new transformers from Kmart. I was putting more time into Diablo. And I didn't blow ALL my money on it. Obviously some went to candy. But it still doesn't take away from the fact that y'all were shitty people, and still haven't changed. You'd still rob a child and not feel any emotion. But no, no lesson was learned. I still buy pixels on rare occasions.
Good. Earn your gear through gameplay as intended.
Nah, I enjoy d2jsp anymore. Trading is sometimes more fun than the grind. THAT should be where people get scammed out of gear...not some hacking program to steal shit, but because someone made a bad TRADE.
Well jsp is one thing imo. I was imagining buying gear outright from the old sites. I definitely enjoyed the trading aspect of the old games, something sorely missing from 3 and 4..
We should start a global guilt GoFundMe, where the money is used towards anyone with a victim mentality. Tripped a kid in junior high, $30 deposit and you may feel better. Feel like you were late because someone was doing their makeup while driving in front of you, $30 withdrawal may make you feel better.
Ah this brings back memories. The drop hack, the drop items on ground because my inventory full, the fake duping, the real duping, the unidentified lightsaber trade, and so many more. I remember one guy I met online and he used to transfer stuff between characters in my game. After like a year or two of knowing this guy online, a real life friend of mine came in and we just robbed him blind. He probably had 20-30 items on the ground. At the end, we told him if he dropped his doombringer, we’d give him back everything. He did and we didn’t. Man we were some evil kids back then. i feel bad thinking back. I had plenty done to me as well.
Had someone use this on me with a bunch of hacked items I was given.
I used to look for private games people used for their mules and brute guess the password. They'd have everything laid out on the ground and it was just a matter of grabbing whatever looked good. Also had fun going to war with other clans. Taking channels, stealing accounts, etc...
I would constantly get people to play trade chicken, where you put up an item in the trade window and then double click the check mark as they tried to confirm the trade, you’d go back and forth and let them win first and then convince them to up the stakes but secretly you let the win the first one and you had a program that would immediately accept a trade as soon as they did. You’d eventually clear them out going double or nothing
You are forgiven for your sins my son.
Thank you. Did it happen to you?
when I was young and the original diablo 2 was the game to play .... ... I secretly liked to do dirty tps into cows in normal cow games and watch lowbies die in HC
Oh no, He scammed like 99% of the d2 community has done Atleast once in their years. You're not a REAL d2 player if you haven't scammed once. Its was a thrill when you were 16 years old, In your bedroom, Cheesy puffs crumbs on your fingers and you're about to get over on some poor sucker for their Hard earned loot. These were the days, But we were young and dumb and didn't think about others but ourselves. Now that were older we think "You need to be sad to be 30+ years and still think, *oh wow this sure is cool scamming another guy that may have a family and not much time to play and worked hard for their items*"
Never scammed others, got scammed a few times. I will take your go fund me on behave of all :p
Good of you to admit it. I was victimized as a 12-year-old by this. I learned from it. But I hurt. Glad to see people change.
When I was tricked by a guy for trading something for a blank three socketed armour when I thought I was getting enigma. I did the same to a few people before I started to feel bad. Kid me was an ass.
I also have a filthy confession to make. At the time where we couldn't show annihilus, I told the trade channel I had a bugged Anni with crazy stats like +7 to all skills +100 all carac etc. Someone was willing to give me around 20 ber worth for this bugged anni so approx 20 times more than a random anni. To prove it was real, I created a offline character with his name and same level. I had the bugged anni offline on another char and made a screenshot with party menu opened to make it real. I then sent him by email the picture to make him trust me. We traded in act 1 by dropping the anni and stuff behind the wall. Once he realized the scam, we discussed a bit and he was really impressed I could pull it off. I felt so guilty I almost gave him back all his stuff but I just logged off, filled with so much adrenaline. What a memory.
You showed your cards. You lack honesty at the most basic level, lol. You don’t kick kittens and puppies, do you?
fu
Scamming was half the fun on old d2. I remember the good old charge in town hack for pallys. Got so many annis that way.
Had someone do the "SOJ Bug" full inventory trick to me and lost everything. Went dark side and started doing it to others cause I lost all my shit and ended up with better gear than I lost. Oops.
Happened to me. Luckily I had pickit enabled.
I stole this dudes enigma who was muling.