[jguegant]

Some other anecdotes:

The official server was stolen due to horrible code-practice (C++-wise and software engineering in general), like having plain SQL-injections when creating characters. Worst! This was one of the reason that made the company (TriggerSoft) behind the game go bankrupt. The game was full of security holes back in 2005. This made the game's economy being broken due to few cheaters, created few horrible roll-backs and such. This drained the player's base from the game.

The "simple C++ server" osrose was also plagued by security issues and technical issues. Up to a point that people preferred to patch the official server with dll-injections + assembly rather than trying to make this "simple C++ server" work.