Gold Dupe Glitch...

[Kaur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVr2fOBEVcw&feature=player_embedded

[Carl]

Apparently this has been around for a while now but was only "mass leaked" within the past few days. It'll now doubt have a massive impact on the game for a long, long time.

[Arceus]

If you know something/someone who abused it, you are advised to post here: [qfc]15-16-449-63928262[/qfc].

[Mercifull]

The rich get richer... the poor get poorer

[Den]

Great.... I'll never complete my goal now.

 

Back to Castle Wars I guess.

[Zerker_Jane]

Haha good for them, at least some people got something out of this game before Jagex kills it.

[Ambler]

There's always glitches in games, and always some greedy guy ready to abuse them, kind of a pity, but I hope whoever has abused this gets banned, kinda wrecks my changes of rebuying Nex stuff again. :lol:

[Kesleri]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4zOa3_MWiM&feature=youtu.be

 

Here you go. This is what I was talking about (except it was done on a more massive scale.)

[Patr1ck]

Funny it's always these same few people that find these massive glitches

[@Dan3HitU]

Nice to know the Quality Assurance department are doing their job to their best abilities.

[Pinata]

Funny it's always these same few people that find these massive glitches

Well, I think that is what they do all day. Try to find ways to break the game. For better or worse.

[n64jive]

Funny it's always these same few people that find these massive glitches

Well, I think that is what they do all day. Try to find ways to break the game. For better or worse.

 

If that is the case, Jagex should hire them over their current QA department. Obviously they enjoy it and they are good at it. Although making 500k gp/15 seconds is 2m/minute or 120m/hour, which is about $40/hr. Hard to pay that as salary for someone in QA.

[Kesleri]

Off Topic : n64jive < - we both created our accounts on the same day:D How awesome is that! :D

[Sir_Squab]

rares have gone insane, white is over max cash.

My bank when it was 40b would be worth almost 80b now if I had not lost it.

You wouldn't know the street price of blue h'ween, would you? I'd love to exchange it for full virtus or something...

[Kesleri]

I myself bought 2 santas , 2 green and 2 blue out of my cash pile ;)

[MTheory]

I know a couple of people who abused this particular bug

They had scripts to bot this lol

[Riptide Mage]

There is something very interesting we can learn from this. Jagex has/had almost no way to effectively monitor for RWT or anomalous GP gains. Accounts should have been monitored for any of the following:

 

- Picking up large amounts of GP from the ground (good old fashion drop trade RWT)

- Giving away large amounts of GP without significant PVM drops, magic exp gains, or GE sales/trades (this covers the main ways of GP income)

- Strangely high number of interactions with a non-common aspect of the game (not skill related, travel related, inter-mini-game related)

 

The fact that Jagex can't even manage to have basic bug-detection sent what little belief I had left in the company straight through the floor. Before the mandatory "then why don't you do it better" post, this is what I do every single day, tracking and monitoring account and transaction data for anomalies and fraud attempts.

[Den]

There is something very interesting we can learn from this. Jagex has/had almost no way to effectively monitor for RWT or anomalous GP gains. Accounts should have been monitored for any of the following:

 

- Picking up large amounts of GP from the ground (good old fashion drop trade RWT)

- Giving away large amounts of GP without significant PVM drops, magic exp gains, or GE sales/trades (this covers the main ways of GP income)

- Strangely high number of interactions with a non-common aspect of the game (not skill related, travel related, inter-mini-game related)

 

The fact that Jagex can't even manage to have basic bug-detection sent what little belief I had left in the company straight through the floor. Before the mandatory "then why don't you do it better" post, this is what I do every single day, tracking and monitoring account and transaction data for anomalies and fraud attempts.

 

You wouldn't even have to go through it to that extent. Just look for large quantities of cash being gained in the crucible without gaining any crucible ranks.

[Riptide Mage]

There is something very interesting we can learn from this. Jagex has/had almost no way to effectively monitor for RWT or anomalous GP gains. Accounts should have been monitored for any of the following:

 

- Picking up large amounts of GP from the ground (good old fashion drop trade RWT)

- Giving away large amounts of GP without significant PVM drops, magic exp gains, or GE sales/trades (this covers the main ways of GP income)

- Strangely high number of interactions with a non-common aspect of the game (not skill related, travel related, inter-mini-game related)

 

The fact that Jagex can't even manage to have basic bug-detection sent what little belief I had left in the company straight through the floor. Before the mandatory "then why don't you do it better" post, this is what I do every single day, tracking and monitoring account and transaction data for anomalies and fraud attempts.

 

You wouldn't even have to go through it to that extent. Just look for large quantities of cash being gained in the crucible without gaining any crucible ranks.

 

As a developer you don't necessarily want to write bug catching code tuned to a very specific activity, you write broad code that will catch a multitude of strange actions that all have the same result. In this case picking large amounts of cash off the ground, but you would also track dropping large amounts of cash and cross-reference that info to find the buyer and seller; but in this case since no player was dropping cash at the same spot it SHOULD have sent up so many red flags.

[Mercifull]

But they CAN tell us how many times people say "lol" in-game and how many people spin the SoF... #prioritiesfail

[Fallstar]

There's multiple billions traded unevenly every hour in gambling, staking, donations, transferring gp between accounts etc. It would be perfectly possible to abuse this bug over a long period of time without Jagex having a reasonable chance of catching it.

 

That said, it's a pretty major [bleep] up. Once the duped gold starts making it's way into the mainstream RS economy, the value of gp as an investment will drop significantly. 500m in a couple of weeks won't get you what 500m does now. Obviously the people who know about the bug with significant amounts of cash and shards will invest their wealth in other items (hence the recent fastest ever % rise in partyhat prices) but for those who do not know about it, this could have a massive negative impact.

[Fire_God]

For those not following the thread, Mod Reach posted:

 

For those asking about whether their presence in the Crucible at the time of the bug will be pulled up negatively.

 

Rest assured we have the tools to accurately identify those actively responsible to those being in the area legitimately. No player genuinely innocent at this time will be affected.

 

I've already started working through a list of names offered to me by the community and internal investigations so anything you have to offer is considered high priority.

 

Cheers guys!

 

~Reach

 

So they claim they do have detection software but it seems to be inefficent/poor.

[Artemis1330]

for the record, his account was created aug 2 of 2011, not 2012.

[The Dark Lord]

Someone made a shed load of IRL money from that glitch I'll bet...

 

If my calculations are right, this guy made like $200,000. Holy shit.

 

A legend was born.

[Mercifull]

Someone made a shed load of IRL money from that glitch I'll bet...

 

If my calculations are right, this guy made like $200,000. Holy shit.

 

A legend was born.

A legend?... not quite. I doubt he paid any tax on that money. Not only do we as players suffer from this illegally aquired money but so does the country he lives in. I hope someone dobs him in to the authorities.