RMT bots are now cloning player characters and names!

[Welsper59]

I think you're wrong there. I mean, yes, people manage to do various things, but they were not hacking the server, it was more of a man in the middle attack injecting new database commands or modifying legitimate ones 'in-flight'.

Other than a lengthy explanation, what would you classify that as? I mean, I also wouldn't consider it hacking the server or anything, which is why I used "mess with" in reference to the servers, but I would consider an altering of normally inaccessible commands to be a hack in this case. I've tested position hacks in games like XI, and while that wasn't hacking the server, I would still consider it a "hack" lol. That market board issue that happened early into ARR would definitely be a server side hit though, the one that was making players near a market board buy items without their actual interaction with it.