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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The library used to read the line does the string length check, so my guess, whoever wrote it initially didn't know about it and tested with a small sunset of items without issue; I assume the games items grew in size over the years too. They also released an official patch with it and paid the modder $10k

Edit fixed typo