World of Warcraft Duping Bug Found

Over the course of this morning several people have sent me tidbits talking about an exploit on WoW that allows duping of items. Apparently forum posts are being removed on official channels, but there are a few places where you can learn about the exploit and see screenshot evidence. In equally exciting news, my Rogue on Azjol-nerub is probably 2 hours away from 60 and since Blizzard will undoubtedly fix this bug soon, I'll have to finance my epic mount the old fashioned way!

Comments

Noone posting?

[KDR_11k]

Let me guess... Too busy duping items?

Re:Noone posting?

[anaesthetica]

I hear the editors have been exploiting this bug for years on Slashdot...

Re:Noone posting?

[shotfeel]

No, you're all wrong.

Nobody's posting because BoingBoing ran a bit about a WoW nude mod.

This should reeally test the servers.

Re:Noone posting?

[Barromind]

I hear the editors have been exploiting this bug for years on Slashdot....

Re:Noone posting?

[Chrispy1000000 the 2]

I hear the editors have be...

No, I can't do this. I can't. I'm off to kill myself now.

In Other News

[superpulpsicle]

China's unemployment rate raised 50% this morning due to this bug.

Hmm

[ucahg]

Is this similar to the slashdot duping stories bug?

Maybe I'll find out in a couple days when this story hits again.

dealing with the culprit

[pr0nbot]

Hmm... judging by the screenshots...

DELETE FROM user WHERE username LIKE "Gu%en";

Re:dealing with the culprit

[Anonymous Coward]

Ozzie Guillen is a duper? No wonder the white sox are doing so well.

Re:dealing with the culprit

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

"user" is a reserved word in SQL.

It would have to be something like this:

DELETE FROM usertable WHERE username LIKE "Gu%en";

Re:dealing with the culprit

[SeanTobin]

W00T!

My sig is actually usefull for once :)

Too Late

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody should have told Leeroy Jenkins about this one.

Doubt it..

[ShaniaTwain]

I suspect they are working on putting together a lawsuit.. Doesn't slashdot hold the patent on duping?

See whatcha get?

[hcob$]

Wow, lovely little bug there. Hopefully my stuff on auction will go up alot since people will have a boat load of gold now. Noooo... we couldn't just earn the gold..... Of course if I wasn't working a real job in real life, I'd have my happy a$$ down there duping as well. Hey, maybe someone can dupe me a bunch of sour grapes for my return to Windrunner!

DUPE!

[Spy der Mann]

This story was already posted earlier. Oh wait...

Re:DUPE!

[justforaday]

Holy shit! And look at how many karma whores there are posting the exact same comments again!

Taco...can't you afford to just buy your gold?

[sgant]

I mean, go to IGE or simular and just buy all your gold if you really want to buy your epic mount. You're a fricken millionaire right?

I mean, if you're just going to do an exploit to get your gold what's the difference? Hell, just buy an account with a couple of level 60 characters.

Cheat or Exploit

[Jeet81]

Are you sure it's a exploit? Maybe it could be a cheat intentionally put in by the developers.

Like press the following in a sequence X Y A B 4 3 5 3 2 8 7 and then press all these together (probably with the help of your friend) Alt+Ctrl+Esc+Insert+Delete+F5

Then you will see you have unlocked all your levels but have crashed windows.

Re:Am I the only one who thought of...

[Arctic Fox]

No..

New jargon word

[b1t r0t]

When the servers come up in the morning the instance server takes about 10 min longer than everything else for some dumb ass reason; So player 1 hands player 2 a stack of gold; Player one goes into instance and about a min later of trying to load gets rubberbanned back to the entrace and has the gold back on him as well as player 2; you keep doing that over and over; You can do it for about 10 minutes!

I know the guy meant "rubberbanded", but it's still a great word.

rubberbanned v. To be repeatedly banned from and attempt to return to a server or IRC channel.

Re:If this dupefix is anything like in Shadowbane.

[daemones]

Make sure to say hi to the other 5 Shadowbane players for me, thanks.

Thanks guys, WoW servers are now /.'ed

[Anonymous Coward]

Now what am I gonna do at work?

Re:Am I the only one who thought of...

[RoceKiller]

Actually, when I viewed the front page, this story was duped. Two completely identical stories, one only viewable for subscribers. After a refresh, it was gone.

I wonder if it was a glitch in the database, a humorous admin, or just the usual dupe getting caught.

Re:What happened to the old Blizzard

[flibuste]

I'd be interested in your numerous publications about how to "program proper code" and/or make a MMORPG bug-free from day one. Actually, a book on how to make a bug-free software, whatever the software would do. But I doubt anyone would risk writing one.

Re:Explanation of bug: Ah, a race condition issue.

[nherm]

OMG you have just explained this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re:Addiction is right.

[JakusMinimus]

1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.

grow the fuck up

Duping "bug", eh?

[dmccarty]

If only we could find the duping bug on Slashdot.