What happened to Intent.Store?
On the 15th of July, multiple discords had gone crazy with announcements speculating that Intent clients were silently updated and were ratted. The information spread like wild fire, and within 1 hour, around 70~ discords had pinged about this.
Now what was this ‘silent update’ all about?
The day of 11 July came around, and Nef had announced to a few people that he was working on a new auth for Intent clients, which was changed to work on devices which used languages with non-latin alphabets (eg. Chinese, Russian).
Now, why was this so important? Well sometime on July 15th, multiple servers started announcing to their members that intent clients were “silently updating” and warning people as no one knew what was going on. It is important to mention that Nef did not announce publicly about this new auth before updating. Shortly after, Nefarious Intent (000000000#0069) releases this announcement stating that the “silent update” was only about HWID updates/fixes and any rat claims shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Due to recent events that happened prior to the “silent updates,” Cedo (Cystemz#9999) leaving the community, and Intent clients being cracked by a group known as AllahLeaks, people suspected that Nefarious Intent was updating these clients with a RAT, and people were naturally suspicious as these updates were made a few hours after a dox of Nef surfaced (which he claimed was fake). Although Nefarious Intent claimed to be updating with HWID fixes, multiple people noticed that Azura, which is a client that does not use Intent Authentication, and ISync, a free client that does not need any authentication updates/fixes, has been silently updated. Nefarious Intent has said that the only modification made to iSync was a new Log4J library, preventing the infamous exploit from some time ago, and any update as a modification to the Json would trigger an update prompt on the Intent Launcher.
Shortly after that announcement, Nefarious Intent started talking about the ISync claims
but even with the proof people continued to claim that all clients are ratted. Pictures surfaced about how iSync’s jar file size went up by 11mb, claims which were shortly debunked and addressed by other members.
Consider that all of this happened in a span of 3 hours. What went on in parts of the community that made this one event so controversial?
Let’s start off with the obvious. The original person that announced this was dort (dort#7330), and with this announcement ensued the total chaos in the Dortware discord. I’m talking more than hundreds of pings, and a ton of memes and videos.
Because of all of this drama, the main Diablo developer, Vince, announced that he will move his client to a different website and will be independent of Intent. He then added that Diablo will be discontinued for now, but he is still developing the new auth and will probably launch the client again pretty soon.At the same time, noq (noq#7949) joined the active discussion in his own discord’s announcements, defending Nefarious. Because of this, the Dortware discord started clowning on noq.
After the storm calmed down a bit, noq stated that he had removed most of his discord friends, left all servers and will take an upload break.
With the said upload break in mind, he did record 2 videos addressing the situation and still being adamant on Nef being in the right, which dort did confirm later by announcing that the iSync jar doesn’t have any visible differences and is probably safe.
This was an absolute rollercoaster, with irreversible effects on peoples’ reputation. Besides Diablo’s situation, for plenty of other devs, Intent became a place of no return.
This post was made by LucaForever and Ai, thank you for reading ❤.