MMORPG Cheating For Profit

1up has a piece on cheating for profit in Massively Multiplayer games. From the article, entitled MMOsploitation: "A universe is a great big tricky thing to make. Designers usually have more than seven days to put one together, but there are still a lot of cracks left in the world that they don't even know about until some player stumbles across them. When you have millions of people romping through your creation they're going to do all kinds of crazy, unanticipated things, many of which can allow them to become tiny gods if left unchecked."

Comments

Real World

[RetepMc]

I don't see how this deffers from the real world in which we live in. People will undoubtably exploit whatever there is for them to exploit.

Dull and boring mmos

[Fiz Ocelot]

"MMOs can be pretty famously tedious"

That's pretty much why a lot of exploits go on. People want the highest levels but getting there is often times no fun at all. Instead of 100hrs of filler content why not try making the journey more fun? Of course then there's the people doing it for profit and that's another issue all together.

I'm sure...

[vertinox]

"When you have millions of people romping through your creation they're going to do all kinds of crazy, unanticipated things, many of which can allow them to become tiny gods if left unchecked."

I'm sure god has contemplated the same thing when man split the atom at the Trinity site.