gamming world.

24th November 2004 . I got a call from my recently attended interviewer. His name was R***** B****, just arrived in Hyderabad from US don't know where in US. He was my boss. Among some 100 people i was selected for the job. The job was nothing but to play game. A virtual game, which was a simulation of reality. I was in desperate to get into some job, cause i was already losing time for my career, i was doing some crash course during that time, need to support myself untill i really get into something. So, i got the chance to get into some job, my real first job in India, that was "role playing game", a role playing game. Before that i never heard about the MMORPG, massively multi-player role playing game. I have heard from my cousin from thailand about the KONARK, RPG, which he used to spend most of his time in the game parlour instead of going to college.
I attended the call, his assistant called me first then he said that wether i could come tonight, instead of the coming after 3 days which was the actually joining date of my job. I reluctangly , agreed to his purposal cause it was already 9:30 PM , he said he will send his car, then i readily agreed. Then i explained the location to the driver where i was staying he picked me up, after dinner, i reached his office, which was on going process of becoming new office. I was given a laptop and the game, which my boss had already playing and just started at the moment. He said he will teach me some moves, and how to play kind of thing then i can start i said ok. I played the game for the whole night. I couldnot understand even though i played whole night. he said he will come in the morning, and so he did.
That's how spended my whole 1 year playing that game. The game was "World of Warcraft iii" and the game server started on 24th Nov. 2004. that same day. My Boss had already created a warrior character for the first time. Then, i have to make him 60 years from 1 year. which i did after 15 days of continues playing for 18 hours. Slowly you can know the real game experience after playing for almost 1 month contineously. The interesting part was though we were staying in India we played the game in US server. Indian IP address was not allowed to those game server, we first hit the ip address in US and the US IP address will hit the server as if we are playing from US only, meticulous thought. The game really hit the market and became the best game of the year 2004 in all over the US then to all over the WORLD.
Then, when the game was on going fame, they developed lots of other interesting thing day by day, like Guild War, where players used to combat in group, together to make it more interesting. Apart from my boss's character he gave me chance to build up another character , again a warrior called "pegasus" which i gave the name and brought that character up to 60 level. There was a day when i used to play like 20 hours without a break for food neither biological waste. I was becoming addict, life was almost there inside the game. The game was so interactive that you will forget your real world. Cause you can buy , fly, travel, cook, fish, ride, fight, talk, and explore then what do you need to stimulate your brain. You just need to sit infront of the computer screen and try to reflect your character according to your personality. i spended my 360 days of my life playing that, i even created some addons on that using lua and xml language. Then i could understand, how the economy and the gold earns in the game transferred to the real money outside.
The game became more popular day by day so as the people also started to hack the game. Since they couldn't hack the game server, they used to manipulate the client side. There were two kinds of automation on the charater rather not say hack.
One was using the keyboard since the game was using keyboard "asdw" and mouse, the other was, the guy used to say "reverse engineering", manipulating the ram address , or offset address, register where it make impacts and then filling his own address to it using c sharp. The wow team also got more clever when they came to know that the public started making automation , and artificial intelligence with the character, and build more patches, agents, wanderer and attached to the server every Tuesday. On the long run the reverse engineering was highly technical and free to use, but the guy couldnot gave his time and on the long run it couldnot happen infront of public. The other guys with the keyboard technique could go for a long time, cause wow team couldnot detect what was happening in the client side.
I could test the software they had build for 6 system , due to the limitation of using 1 ip address, it used to had lots of problem. The other with the skyglider, i did testing for 1 system only.