Kid-friendly PC MMO Wizard101 was launched again in 2008 and for the previous 14 years, it has quietly chugged on, efficiently staying afloat whereas many different video games have shut down. But just lately, this previous MMO discovered itself thrust into the highlight after a sequence of weird and expletive-filled in-game messages started popping up for gamers. And followers consider an indignant developer is accountable.

Wizard101 is a free-to-play MMO on the PC that’s primarily geared toward kids and is introduced as being family-friendly. It’s a recreation you might need seen commercials for again within the day. It’s additionally a type of video games that you simply possible had utterly forgotten about till simply now and are each shocked to recollect and extra shocked it’s nonetheless a factor within the yr of our lord 2022. But issues weren’t so family-friendly just lately within the enchanted world of…(rapidly seems to be up the Wizard101 wiki) The Spiral.

As noticed by PC Gamer, final week Wizard101 gamers logged in and located a sequence of indignant, nasty messages crammed into the sport. Some of the messages complained about low pay or unhealthy bosses, whereas others simply, ahem, criticized the sport. Some had been simply barely vulgar, like one pop-up notification that merely stated: “dick and balls.” Meanwhile, one very talked-about message amongst gamers allegedly stated “The next world is my boss’s asshole.” That looks as if a…shitty stage. (Don’t throw stuff at me, please.)

Eventually, this all led to the sport being shut down for a bit on September 16 whereas the devs presumably mounted issues up and removed all of the assholes, dicks, and balls.

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Players took screenshots of those messages and shared them on Reddit whereas additionally theorizing that “Server Dude” (their nickname for the hacker) was a disgruntled worker. This at first appeared believable, however the idea appears to have been squashed by Wizard101 devs KingsIsle Entertainment.

Posted earlier at this time, a brand new assertion from the studio apologizes for the “inappropriate” messages. It additionally claims that the in-game “broadcast system” was “illegally accessed” and used to put up messages “as if they were written by a KingsIsle employee.” The remainder of the assertion doesn’t say who might have been chargeable for the hacked messages, however the studio confirms that no different programs had been hacked and that it has added extra safety to its broadcast system in an effort to forestall this type of factor from taking place once more.

Kotaku has contacted KingsIsle for extra details about the state of affairs and who was behind the hack.

It actually looks as if, in 2022, nobody within the online game trade is secure from hackers. We just lately noticed GTA VI leak due to a hacker. And now Wizard101 has been hit by (possible) a unique hacker. I think about a bunch of various online game studios and publishers are having conferences proper now about safety and find out how to higher shield themselves from future hackers.