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The lord british tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of the famous Ultima Online incident in which the character Lord British was killed during an in-game event, along with the long-running debate over what actually caused it. Tagged content revisits a 2013 lecture by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, who used the episode as a caution against treating every unexpected player action as cheating, and notes that the widely repeated story has drifted into mythology. Coverage traces the clip through PC Gamer, GamesRadar, and Newell's appearance at the University of Texas at Austin, correcting the record: the death was a bug, not a hack.
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    Ultima Online Lord British Death Was a Bug, Not a Hack

    A resurfaced 2013 lecture from Valve co-founder Gabe Newell offers a useful warning to game developers: do not confuse every unexpected player action with cheating. But the much-repeated example Newell used—the assassination of Ultima Online’s Lord British—has acquired enough mythology that the...