Could mobs see through hide/sneak in classic?

[quellren]

I've never had issue with mobs seeing through a successful hide+sneak.
I've snuck into/around many places I shouldn't be and, including most named spawns in upper/lower Guk (to the assassin spawn for my DE mask at lvl 15.)

I think alot of times when people say 'OMGWTFBBQ, my sneak just failed, this isn't effing fair!!11!" it's because they inadvertently clicked on a corpse and 'tried' to loot it. With some deliberate testing I found that no matter how far away, NPC or PC, anytime you click on a lootable body, hide drops. If you get the 'That corpse is too far away to loot', or 'You do not have permission to loot that corpse' message you can bet that it broke your stealth.