"In the early days of EverQuest, a cheater and designer waged a secret war from ..."

[loramin]

Just wanted to share this fun article with stories of EQ's early days:

https://www.pcgamer.com/in-the-early...-gaming-store/

It has great stuff like:

He liked to have fun with the spells, too. A popular early website with information about EQ was Caster's Realm, run by an Australian named Greg Short. One of the site's biggest draws was a detailed list of the game's spells. They got a lot of this information by scraping beta server patch notes, which was not without some risk. "One year, right around April 1, I put up a patch to beta where I nerfed the most popular spell of every class except one, whose signature spell I buffed," GZ says. "I just put it up with no notes as a friendly reminder that what went to beta was for testing. It's the only time I've ever been called at 1am by my boss. Brad called me up and went 'the forums are on fire, what did you DO?'"