{"id":1215369,"date":"2025-02-15T06:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215369"},"modified":"2025-02-15T06:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:45:12","slug":"how-diablo-hackers-uncovered-a-speedrun-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215369","title":{"rendered":"How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For years, Maciej &#8220;Groobo&#8221; Maselewski\u00a0stood as the undisputed champion of <em>Diablo<\/em> speedrunning. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dW8XorD9RwI\">3-minute, 12-second Sorceror run<\/a> looked all but unbeatable thanks to a combination of powerful (and allowable) glitch exploits along with what seemed like some unbelievable luck in the game&#8217;s randomly generated dungeon.<\/p>\n<p>But when a team of other speedrunners started trying and failing to replicate that luck using outside software and analysis tools, the story behind Groobo&#8217;s run began to fall apart. As the inconsistencies in the run <a href=\"https:\/\/diablo.tas.bot\/\">started to mount<\/a>, that team would conduct an automated search through billions of legitimate <em>Diablo<\/em> dungeons to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Groobo&#8217;s game couldn&#8217;t have taken place in any of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just had a lot of curiosity and resentment that drove us to dig even deeper,&#8221; team member Staphen told Ars Technica of their investigation. &#8220;Betrayal might be another way to describe it,&#8221; team member AJenbo added. &#8220;To find out that this had been done illegitimately&#8230; and the person had both gotten and taken a lot of praise for their achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/02\/the-diablo-hackers-that-debunked-a-record-speedrun\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2025\/02\/the-diablo-hackers-that-debunked-a-record-speedrun\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Maciej &#8220;Groobo&#8221; Maselewski\u00a0stood as the undisputed champion of Diablo speedrunning. His 3-minute, 12-second Sorceror run looked all but unbeatable thanks to a combination of powerful (and allowable) glitch exploits along with what seemed like some unbelievable luck in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}