Was Wizard101 Hacked and Spammed by an Employee???

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Server Dude has singlehandedly: 1. Gotten Wizard101 on trending _(i.e. more than what marketing has achieved in a DECADE)_ 2. United the community 3. Called out KingsIsle's greedy antics This dude needs a raise!

[@EtherealistEquinox]

It's probably an employee but they're not gonna accept it because that's a major L for them and we'll never know..what we know is the server dude is a god

[@katliit9442]

Wizard101 marketing is garbage. Sure its marketed for kids, but card trading games can be complex have been very well marketed towards an older audience as well. Same with pirate101 in its advanced chessboard style.

[@darklordsauron3415]

@@katliit9442 What marketing? There is no marketing.

[@marihanderkhan5663]

@@katliit9442 Yeah they should honestly give up on the children targetting. Children probably make up like 20% of the playerbase at this point, if even.

[@hannahwishon9958]

Wait, we got on trending?

[@The_SaneHatter]

Deal with the rogue employee? Give this marketing genius a raise!

[@97SURF]

Was thinking the exact same thing

[@katliit9442]

Seems like good PR to me.

[@MordredStarfall]

I can't even be mad about this. This is hilarious and genuinely made my day. Like yeah, it's bad this happened at all. But c'mon, whoever was behind it got jokes and I respect it. Let this guy run the official Twitter.

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Ngl, I wouldn't even say this was a bad thing KingsIsle deserves to be reminded just how shitty they are every once in a while!

[@BellaBananass]

Lmao fr i lwk miss this game but damn shits hilarious

[@adamrainbowpants9525]

You could say it is bad, only from the perspective of players that have been banned or muted for saying adult words. Gotta say, hopefully they learn from this and make a way where adults have the room to be adults.

[@zoobaguides2584]

Facts

[@HobbesHobbiton]

After the $700 scooter mount, CrownsIsle deserves this and so much more.

[@nummy2]

$700 scooter mount?? Am I missing something

[@kowalski3389]

is that fr

[@sole7023]

@@nummy2 if I remember correctly they offered a scooter with high speed (like 60% or more) as the last tier of a crowns reward list

[@boxylemons7961]

Frankly everyone in kingsisle bar him deserves to die

[@enixine1266]

Saw someone with it the other day sun skimmer or something

[@mamstarstorm]

This was an insane cyber war not seen in Wizard101 history since the DDOS attacks years ago.

[@tomjoe757]

i was in a discord server with those doing the ddos attacks. i couldn’t do anything other than share the chat history with kingsisle

[@Travis0829]

Pigeon squad in 2018? Remember that?

[@uiucchemistry2664]

It definitely made me laugh and serves KI right with negative publicity when much of the player base is unhappy with them & knows how they are as a company. I don’t think a employee would be stupid enough to do this with all the legal trouble and damage to applying to future jobs after being asked why they were fired from a previous company assuming they don’t get jail time for what could be considered a crime. If it is an former employee, that would be hilarious and just further proves/confirms what we knew all along about KI being a crappy/$h@tty company to work for that even employees don’t like them let alone players lol. I think it was probably a hacker indeed and hopefully they were smart enough to hide/change their IP address so they can’t be tracked or located in the first place so they can get away cleanly. It’s lucky for KI that worst damage wasn’t done using server messages and just goes to show the weak security system in place and why wiz needs 2fa.

[@7hct591]

I honestly don't know why they don't have 2FA.

[@lumix1186]

Literally F kingsisle lol

[@MarsuTheWarlock]

He deserves to be promoted to KI's CEO. They charge ridiculous amounts of money for ingame stuff, subs and game currency (i mean, i'm a veteran player from south america, and the prices are the main reason why i stopped playing, is just how much they charge for stuff), and they can't get their employees better wages? give this man a medal and a promotion.

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Preach it louder for those in the back! 👏

[@captainrexstudios4258]

I agree!

[@anthonywashington2885]

I don't think this is an employee. Like what a few other folks had mentioned before, if an actual employee did this, this would be career-suicide. Not to mention potential legal issues. Someone else also made a fantastic point. Why was wiz faster to shut things down and fix the Crown Shop glitch rather than this nonsense? Lastly, from a theoretical standpoint, if someone is able to hack and broadcast data from an employee account, what is stopping them from hacking into other information like logins or other personally identifying information?

[@Lemontarts01]

Depends. It could totally be an employee. Dude works for a shitty company - he can drag them thru the mud so bad if they try to pursue action. Also dude if it WAS FOREIGN. They would have adressed it. Its an employee - otherwise they would have adressed how and why it happened

[@Lemontarts01]

@ItsHoverBoi well in this case he didn't seem to have issues with players and nor did anyone report any account shenanigans. But if it is a hacker wiz should finally give us 2FA

[@Cazaleb]

@ItsHoverBoi 2 Factor Authentication

[@adamrainbowpants9525]

Probably because hacking them and sending out server messages wouldn't get them in as much or if any legal trouble than if they were to hack several accounts that have valuable items/credit info..etc

[@Dracnoss]

I guess KI's old-ass security system has run its course. Hopefully we do get some sort of response from this though... considering that the servers had gotten DDOS attacks in the past.

[@TheUltimateRare]

they will put in new blocks to prevent this. but it doesn't mean they'll fix their bad code. they'll probably bandaid it with a more modern solution.

[@emeraldapple3990]

I feel bad for the kids that had to encounter this but serves KI right, doubt they'll learn though

[@fent]

if i was a little kid and i saw this id be laughing

[@dibel3669]

most kids play fortnite with voicechat on.. i think they can handle this

[@emeraldapple3990]

@@dibel3669 you both are missing the point, as I kid I heard much worse but it shouldn't happen in the first place, maybe I would have been a slightly better adjusted adult if I wasn't in cod lobby's at age 14

[@ixkazexi6988]

@@emeraldapple3990 i feel like its a good thing to be in cod lobbys at a young age, shows you to not care about what others think let alone random people online. Kids nowadays are way to soft imo

[@leoskoble]

I do hope they listen to the community. The unified response to this situation from the community is absolutely accurate, we need transparent communication on everything, especially stuff like this. I let my membership run out and don't plan on buying anything else from them unless they actually update pirate101. Every time they say big things are coming it's a patch to ship pvp or another skeleton key boss. I'm done otherwise, been holding out hope for a while but now I'll believe it when I see it

[@loganwork7024]

I played all day Friday without an issue, but I was wondering why there was a sudden server maintenance break. I entered a dungeon and immediately got a 5 minutes notice before all servers were going down, and it was at like 8:30 pm instead of the usual 2:00 am

[@tess8110]

I know right thats exactly what I thought too

[@TheUltimateRare]

yeah this was pure chaos. since they run a kids game rather than adults game they had to rush the server down quicker for that reason Doesn't matter if there were no kids playing at the time, the possibility that kids did see it was bad enough. lets not forget some of the devs probably have children so it's even more personal to them.

[@thecire2332]

it's terrible working for ratbeard? wow never would've saw that coming

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Who woulda thunk it

[@TheUltimateRare]

sadly this joke doesn't work cause this person never worked for KI :/

[@-TheFacelessGamer-]

If it was actually an employee, I don't think KI would confirm that tbh because they said it was an awful company to work for and so it almost doesn't look good on them but IDK.

[@isthisnametaken9965]

Reminds me of another game I play DCUO back around 2012, I believe, the game started getting crazy DDOS attacks, game was shut off while it was dealt with. When it was back players received exclusive rewards. Unfortunately I started playing like a year later so I don’t have those gifts in my account

[@med7621]

i want to get more into dcuo my chaos villain has been sitting in my account for a while

[@itsdangerfr]

This was lowkey W marketing shoutout to that guy what a GigaChad

[@dreamsleeper1568]

Well… someone’s getting fired.

[@dreamsleeper1568]

And sued.

[@HobbesHobbiton]

Let's hope it's ClownsIsle's CEO instead of this absolute chad

[@TheUltimateRare]

X to doubt that it was even a worker there. they probably have lots of checks in place to prevent them using their account for madness like this, it's most likely a rogue hacker who was bored on friday.

[@DaPLAGUE1]

This is what happens when you use the server computer at KI for naughty sites

[@MelloriNoMori]

Oh boy. What a day that was. I was actually questing with someone under 13.

[@falawzllama5212]

Lmao I'm disappointed in myself I was on a break recently since I got burnt out and as soon as i stop playing something like this happens its always something with kingsisle let's be honest

[@leilanis6846]

same here

[@daniyalkhizar]

samee!! I didnt play yesterday and this happened

[@noneofyourbusiness4054]

Lord😭 Wizard seriously needs a BIG update

[@FenixWindail]

I believe the problem is not the profane messages sent in the game, the problem is that this is the result of the recent marketing direction of KI and Wizard101, let's admit it, the game is PtW and Gambling and above all adicted to spend an absurd amount of money for... packs and spelement... if you connect everything with what happened on Friday we must realize that this is not just a problem of desecrating a children's game but a big message that wants to start a war against KI to fight this crap.

[@Spatzz-12]

Couldn’t believe Moist Charlie talked about this

[@prototype0z19athesaturdaym9]

I never thought something like this would came out of a 14 year old mmo game, that something you don't see everyday

[@TheMainMan.]

We should be compensated for the exorbitant amount of money we've spent on this game. Hell, I get rewards and special stuff through other avenues I've funneled money into. What makes this company any different? Oh yeah. Greed.

[@Ken.Wiz.]

Maybe stop playing wiz

[@Aisha_Gii]

Imagine if KI did this intentionally as a joke just for publicity sake

[@TheUltimateRare]

nah they are too strict about swearing so it seems far too shockvalue to be a stunt.

[@flamingcheese4650]

I really like how the newer worlds are more visually eye-opening compared to older ones. But I do agree with everyone that KI has gotten more greedy with the Crowns Shop in the past three years. Knight Night event, I'm looking at you.

[@shermanpeaslee658]

The server wide message thing is going nuts on the wiz subreddit

[@Vividesia]

Dunno if anyone played back in 2017 and used Twitter and saw this, but if so, the last time Kingsisle was hacked to my knowledge was by some guy under the alias PigeonPatrol, it was big talk between wiz players back then and they kept shutting the game down altogether.

[@melissaarmadillo4076]

What if it was in relation to the crown shop glitch recently? Is the hacker on our side and trying to improve the experience of the players through random sneak attacks? 😅

[@HobbesHobbiton]

IIRC someone at KI got punished for that glitch, but don't quote me on that

[@Melo-ub6tj]

He isn’t wrong. KI is really bad company with these paywalls.

[@lioncat79]

I knew this would happen! The man did something no one else would. He is gonna be a hero!

[@corneliusfudge8044]

I just wanna say I love you blaze, you and your content. Thank you

[@jmk0822]

My favorite one was “the next world is my boss’ ***hole”

[@SuperSinister55]

I mean Kingsisle is a terrible company in the eyes of players, so I can imagine it's no different for the employees.

[@DynastyTrickDogs]

IM not even mad because we need more people playing the game and less crowns stuff

[@CrimsonHeart3]

Blazelifehammer mentioning moistcritikal .. is this the multiverse?

[@Jakobi888]

This is random asf but I’m baked and just thought in my mind how much I love this game they should bring it to Xbox or something it would bring more people to the game and me back to it and it’s been years it would be so much more casual and easier to play if it was on console too.

[@mrmandermanny]

Either my game is broken or I was in a safe realm somehow because I never got any of the messages until the shut down ones, so I was really confused about it. I had no idea what was going on until I went to twitter

[@thedrewbear4]

Talk about the black lines that come from some wizards, I have complained and they said it was my computer doing it, but changed my boots and it went away, I just shouldn't have to pay to stitch them. I'm seeing more and more of them now. What do you think?

[@Abiigaiilrx]

I did feel bad about the cussing in the messages because of the children who may have been playing, but as an adult player I'd be lying if I said I didn't thoroughly enjoy the announcements. I felt liberated FOR the person writing them 😂

[@tigerlily6763]

I completely cracked up. Hilarious. But I doubt it was an employee.

[@NicolasClark7732]

I'll take compensation in the form of 20k crowns, I'm not greedy, after all. Because that's enough for me to get the seventh wizard slot and some packs.

[@cricketcopperlocks8274]

Last time I checked the crown shop it costs 18k crowns for the seventh slot

[@NicolasClark7732]

@@cricketcopperlocks8274 Not sure how that happened, but that was supposed to be 20k, not 2-k. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@imhim3717]

10k

[@TheUltimateRare]

@@NicolasClark7732 edit your comment then. unless you don't own a PC.

[@NicolasClark7732]

@@TheUltimateRare Didn't realize it was necessary to edit it when I addressed it in the comments.

[@JS-ti3zo]

The world should be concerned about all the greed .

[@elgestic8070]

😭😭😭 I gotta c this, I seen the ss's earlier, I won't lie tho it made me wanna comeback

[@kylelong8068]

*see

[@elgestic8070]

@@kylelong8068 💀

[@drewkelly3622]

Give this man a raise

[@haiden8803]

this was the funniest sht tht ever happened on this game lol

[@HawkinaBox]

I totally agree and I'm so sad I missed it!

[@TheUltimateRare]

i don't know why you censor yourself. unless the creator of this video has some blocks? KZbin is 13+ outside of youtube kids, why should people censor themselves?

[@haiden8803]

@@TheUltimateRare i normally type this way dawg

[@D3mi_Glaz3]

Literally the one day I don't get on I miss it 😭

[@laurieholland2907]

This is wild. Feel bad for those in big dungeons but it is kinda funny

[@GabeWu]

I love how this happened.

[@synia3132]

No lie I love wizard101 whenever your questing and all that but afterwards once you finish a character or all from different schools I kind of miss pirate101 tbh but I doubt they ever gonna touch that game and have major updates for it. 💯🤷🏽‍♀️

[@kblaszy96]

We need our 60k crowns

[@AustinAaq]

Man this guy has gone about as far as Matt Hardy when him and Jeff split up 🤣

[@cydragon2.099]

Kingisle should honestly remove the paywall or just pay for crown or membership once you've got done with ARc 1

[@tess8110]

I wondered what happened, I was playing and didn't see any messages but it was an odd part of the day for the servers to go down

[@dreamweaver5274]

I think this is kind of funny too. I can see where employees might be frustrated or s hacker too. As for swear words being sent and it being a kids game - ki is changing the whole concept of the game. I loved the game when I was 12 and started it was so easy to follow and the social interaction was great. I met friends and we even started to pvp which I loved I have continued to play the game for 14 years. I am not a big gamer and the fact wiz was so easy to play was great. Now ki is changing that and the social aspect too. Pvp is 1v1 and you can’t do low level which I find the most challenging Everything I loved about ki is changing. Now guilds etc it is not the game that I enjoyed when younger. Sure there is a quest arrow and easy enough to quest but a lot again is solo and if you team Up often get toxic people. Beastmoon is way more toxic than pvp ever was etc. I want my old game back. If ki wanted a game like the one they are trying to make then start a new game. Leave wiz alone. Go back to the old wiz 101 that was a kids game and promoted teamwork in pvp. And making friends that last forever from all over the world. I hoped one day my kids ( if I have any ) could play with me. The old wiz was my stress relief and now it brings more stress. So ya I don’t blame an employee? / hacker

[@Taric682]

Hahaha so funny. Love seeing your videos. ❤

[@mongojrttv]

This mmo was my childhood

[@HawkinaBox]

OOoh my god I can't believe I missed this!! LMAO!!!

[@janessamoses6275]

I haven’t played in so long so when I seen this pop up on KZbin I was like whatttttt. Never clicked so fast 😂😂😂😂 Might have to play again now

[@ballistaproductions]

Best thing to ever happen in the game

[@shadowstar1028]

I'm so sad i got off wiz when the 5 minute server message popped up these are the funniest thing I've seen in a long time lol

[@shatteredsentient5321]

Even moistcritical made a video about this.

[@ElijahLoutsFlower]

Hi blaze (:

[@neckbeardnetwork9959]

Honestly I am laughing my ass off Like can’t say I’m surprised.

[@meganstrickland3427]

Can't believe I missed it yesterday.

[@bigdus3423]

call it what you want, its a blessing in disguise...

[@manbuckett3460]

The messages were only on Ambrose Area 2 I believe because I didn’t get any. I only saw them after

[@BroughtTheRain]

I work night shift. And 2 nights in a row, I tried to get on. And it was updating and I was like: "wtf!" That's hilarious!

[@cicisstormshelter1076]

Oh wow, I was just getting started, just hit the tutorial at the beginning of the game and dodged a bullet there! The thought that someone would be so crass as to hack this MMO is terrible. I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit was the one convincing players to use third-party addons to cheat. :(

[@MGhammer123]

One of my questing buddies was playing during this time and it was 4 A.M. 💀 Someone was having a rough day apparently.

[@astyzle]

this would happen in wiz

[@cz5981]

i really hope KI responds!

[@J_jae]

hacked by an employee😭😭

[@MariMeg125]

Keep us updated

[@candlejack101]

It was a clear outsider attack to break up K.I's recent financial possibilities, its likely not a coincidence that this happened immediately after they released a bunch of ludicrous figures, also although sure its funny ha ha, but it do be alarming how light of it both you and others are seeming to make. This was an attack and is easily a criminal offense, a biggy too, if the IP is identified then they could face some serious jail time.

[@kaidenharris4107]

If they are proven guilty

[@kaidenharris4107]

U r innocent until proven guilty my friend and u need sufficient evidence at that

[@Nirtue]

This is the funniest thing I have seen come out of this game in years. I hope he doesn’t get caught

[@kellyrose3246]

I was legit trying to get on on Friday and I couldn't. It kept saying I couldn't get back on. I wonder if that's why, because they were fixing the problem.

[@SuperPcPenguin]

damnit I step away from the game for a portion of a year and I miss the funniest thing a KI employee has ever done

[@yannitus9482]

You lost me at "the wizard police are after me"

[@thebutterflywizardess8042]

I want to know everything they said lol.😂 And the downside is if they wanted to make KI look bad, they instead gave it publicity and may draw more players in so it backfired.

[@DivineDarco]

probably a cold take here but this opens my brain to the thought of a young adult version of the game. much more graphic and vulgar. kinda like an anime time skip type thing lol.

[@Travis0829]

Yea I think everyone should have 600-800 crowns from that craziness

[@kamijuli]

no no we should get way more than that

[@Travis0829]

@@kamijuli you want a Selector Wand or mount or Pet or What?

[@TheUltimateRare]

you get 10 days of membership bonuses. take it or leave it. KI only gives good rewards at christmas and more serious events.

[@briannguyen6248]

Well maybe it’s time for me to log back in after like 3 or so years lol 😂 might be fun to check out new houses again

[@Lemontarts01]

Someone who has money and buys crowns regularly bruh do us all a favor and spend 50bucks on 5er and get like 3-4 people to hack KI in a row. Its clearly not that hard - their security absolutely sucks They DIDNT ADRESS THIS. The deserve it

[@DietaryChain]

Wiz 💀

[@BlazeLifehammer]

bro it keeps getting worse

[@Krowwfather702]

I was so confused when I got this notification… like what the hell is going on??

[@cailinproctor1083]

literally the only time i wasn't playing lmao

[@ivailoivanov01]

Well at least Wiz got some exposure.

[@neptune1525]

Damn it I missed it...

[@AHGally2005]

Get this employee reported, this needs to end, agreed everyone?

[@th3a_ami]

i think it's a smart marketing plan if that was what was actually happening

[@bigbaby7286]

the one day i don’t play this happens 😭

[@austinpurdy8387]

When are you coming back with a 2 person walkthrough ???

[@itzmesammyyy]

i know its not KI fault, but as someone who has been playing this game for soo long i cant imagine them not speaking out about this like imagine you are idk 6,7,8, years old a KID playing this game and staring out and getting those messages a lot of kids parents would not like them seeing those kinds of things especially a kids game , it would be a lot worse if they didn't speak out about this..

[@thecire2332]

this game is made up of 90% adults or late teens

[@itzmesammyyy]

@@thecire2332 I know, but their is still kids playing the game

[@Zatch0000]

Probably someone's kid got into their father's office somehow lol

[@christopherholladay918]

Last year my account was taken over and had it locked down for 2 days I told them that I spent thousands of dollars and they needed to unlock it . Took them 2 days to do it. They said they had to investigate it first. My butt, anyways they unlocked it.

[@georgewahington]

2 days... That's really not a big deal ...

[@NightShadowFireBladeWizard]

I can hear anything in wizsrd101 bc of this.

[@Sighclops23]

This game is still online? Fancy that. Figured it died a long time ago, hopefully W101 gets the publicity to return it to its prime, but unlikely

[@Sighclops23]

Game developed in 2004 and although it's aimed at a younger audience with many features aimed to avoid a toxic crowd, this game in the end was left with the toxic crowd it was aiming to avoid, still I suppose this game has its loyal community as it seems to still have a following. Haven't played W101 since like 2010, props to those who keep on trotting along through the years

[@Sighclops23]

Personally being someone who played this game like 12 years ago and now as a parent, I would never allow my children to play this game, knowing what kind of community play this game.

[@enrique23f]

@@Sighclops23 developed in 2008*

[@Sighclops23]

@@enrique23f Apologies 😂 its been a long time

[@TheUltimateRare]

it still has a bunch of players daily. it has enough paying membership players to keep running. which is probably why they aren't planning to make it free to play. they would lose the monthly income right away and might not be able to hold out until the crown buying really gets going.

[@justsomeguymustache]

thats what that was..

[@Yanataa]

should have gave us crowns

[@TheUltimateRare]

they probably only have access to world chat system. not crown stuff.