Old School RuneScape Players Experience Rainbow Text Exploit

MMORPGs are by nature community experiences. The benevolence of the community can be decisive, and in the early 2000s, exchanges between players were even at the heart of the experience: no discussion, no progress in the game. Certain high-level people, called “PK” (player-killer), however, liked to go to beginner areas and kill on a loop, reveling in the idea of ​​ruining the evening of dozens of players.

Old-school MMORPGs benefit from a certain vague of nostalgia lately, and the malevolence of some hasn’t changed in all that time. That’s whaton was able to see recently on Old School Runescape.

Yesterday, July 19, Old School RuneScape received an update with some relatively minor technical changes. Shortly after the arrival of patch, players began to notice a bug. When they wrote in the chat with a rainbow-colored font, it crashed the game, but not just for themselves, but for anyone who could see the text. Something that has obviously been exploited by malicious people to ruin the experience of others. Within hours, the developers had taken the entire game offline to fix the issue. From now on, everything is back to normal.

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