For nine years, Maciej Maselewski, known as Groobo, was the holder of the quickest time for completing Diablo 1, achieving the feat in 3 minutes and 12 seconds.
His achievement was, however, aided by a series of glitches and an unusually laid-out dungeon, which generated a lot of suspicion in the gaming community.
Following unsuccessful attempts to replicate his luck by other players, a group known as “TasBot,” who are tool-assisted speedrunners, began to examine his skills in more detail.
TasBot used algorithms to search every possible variant of the original Diablo dungeon, and found that none featured the same set-up that Groobo had encountered.
Speaking to Ars Technica, one member of the group, Stephen, said: “We just had a lot of curiosity and resentment that drove us to dig even deeper…Betrayal might be another way to describe it…To find out that this had been done illegitimately… and the person had both gotten and taken a lot of praise for their achievement.
