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."

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Time Bandits

[sesshomaru]

Randall: You see, to be quite frank, Kevin, the fabric of the universe is far from perfect. It was a bit of botched job, you see. We only had seven days to make it. And that's where this comes in. This is the only map of all the holes. Well, why repair them? Why not use them to get stinking rich? -- Time Bandits

and on the 137th day . . .

[rev_sanchez]

God made a minor revision to the inventory control system that accidentally allowed for duping certain large swords when the player equipped them and dropped them at the same time. This will be patched in Earth version 1.0.25

Yep, just like God.