Would you leak it?

[Decoda117]

Let's say, there was a secret money making method that requires little to no skill requirements and can earn vast amounts of money in seconds. Would you tell others, and potentailly ruinging the method?

How about a game-breaking glitch/exploit/whatever that allows GP to be duplicated? If you were the only one who found out about this glitch/trick/what, would you tell anybody for a day of fame, or keep it to yourself and become incredibly rich?

Finally, what if you found a loophole in the game that allows, for example, easy GP by selling items that have little worth in the GE to an NPC for 100 times the price. Would you tell somebody, like close friends, Jagex, everyone, etc?

Just asking, because I'm curious about it.

Partyhat duplication glitch:

The partyhat duplication glitch was the most famous glitch of RuneScape Classic, exploited on 7 November 2003.

Response by Jagex:

Although Jagex soon found out about the glitch, they could not immediately do anything to fix it, as they themselves did not understand the process behind the "duplication".
Several days of item duplication made a massive change to the RuneScape economy as players started to duplicate other, less valuable items such as ores.

Eventually, Jagex offered a lifetime RuneScape membership for whoever could tell them how the bug worked, with multiple players coming forward and explaining it to them. This allowed for Jagex to disable the glitch. Only the first player to reveal how the glitch worked was rewarded. Although they understood what the long-term effects of the economy in RuneScape would be, Jagex refused to rollback the game for a whole day.

1) Hats and other items were created by AutoRune. AutoRune is infamous RS cheat, you don't need to know much about it, just how Jagex said there are no cheats for RuneScape. Did they make a mistake or did they lie to you? You decide. Anyway if someone offers you AutoRune, don't download it, it's not being given to anyone and what you will be downloading is a keylogger. Trust me, that is so.
2) Almost all players who created items got banned. Someone made 40 mill, someone almost 100 mill and didn't get banned but most of the accounts did. Especially those having 1 bill GPs and 100 sets of hats. My personal gain is some pink hats and ~5k steel bars. Not that much eh?
3) It took several hours for Jagex to figure out the problem and fix it. During this time they didn't do anything to stop the duping.
4) Jagex could not trace which items are duped and which are normal. That's why only some items got deleted.
5) The situation in market is very unstable but seems like the rarest hat (pink one, the most ugly hat) is now one of the most common.
6) Jagex did not roll back. I guess they don't really mind seeing rares becoming less rare.
7) Andrew doesn't have sense of humor. Mod Mark does. He's the man! But Andrew... You should all send e-mail to Andrew and tell him you love him, he's very sad and lonely. Andrew promised Dylock lifetime membership if he helps. Instead of that he banned his account. Go on, help the kind RS mods, your reward will be a ban, you know you want it.

 

[Adverse]

Nope, I'd use it to my advantage though, like starting a gold selling shop.

 

[Lured Yah]

I'd keep it for myself, might tell a friend what I'd be doing but not how..

 

[malakadang]

Keep it to myself and then once I've benefited, sell it.

 

[Yenthe666]

I would keep it entirely for myself. Make as much money as you can, put it on mules & stash it away as fast as you can.
And benefit in real life plox.

 

[Mr_Zeus]

Keep it to myself and then once I've benefited, sell it.

I'm sure everyone would pretty much do this.

 

[Lured Yah]

I'm sure everyone would pretty much do this.

all people say they do, but 99% of em end up leaking it..

 

[dangelo]

Make myself a nice bit of cash then sell the glitch for $100 a pop

 

[Jeff]

Let's say, there was a secret money making method that requires little to no skill requirements and can earn vast amounts of money in seconds. Would you tell others, and potentailly ruinging the method?

If it was a legit way of making money, then I'd probably create a guide for it and sell that.

How about a game-breaking glitch/exploit/whatever that allows GP to be duplicated? If you were the only one who found out about this glitch/trick/what, would you tell anybody for a day of fame, or keep it to yourself and become incredibly rich?

Yeh, I'd tell people considering if I were the only one using the glitch, I'm sure Jagex would find out about it.

Finally, what if you found a loophole in the game that allows, for example, easy GP by selling items that have little worth in the GE to an NPC for 100 times the price. Would you tell somebody, like close friends, Jagex, everyone, etc?

Yeh, I would.

And that life-time membership is only worth 3-4 years (Source: I think RS forums).

 

[Laptop65]

Keep it to myself, sell tons of it. When I can't be assed with it anymore I'd probably ask Jagex for a sum of money in exchange for the bug.

 

[Bhenc]

Nah, I'd NEVER leak it. I wouldn't even tell it to any one in my family. I'd just keep on doing it my self and start up a gold shop which would have cheaper prices then others. I'd simply make bank lol.

 

[0bby born]

Only real life friends who can be trusted not ingame friends.

 

[Kratom]

Not a living soul would hear a word about it from me. Real life friends are even more likely to leak it further.

 

[Zolar]

Never leak it keep it to the grave. That's a potential source of income for life. I would be generous though and donate a bit to Sythe.

 

[kyl3macmillan]

I would keep it to myself and make irl bank.

 

[ilovegold69]

wouldnt tell anyone.

 

[-Ryan]

Would never tell anyone.

 

[T V]

I'd probably exploit it as much as I could for my personal gain. After I had my fill I'd tell my friends about it.

 

[Dark Zero]

I would keep it to myself and exploit it for personal gain.

 

[CryMePixels]

Would never tell anyone obviously.
Not thinking about myself truly.
It would ruin the economy.