WidowPC Gaming Computers - World of Warcraft Duping Bug Found
It's every MMO's worst nightmare and it has descended on our World of Warcraft world of Azeroth. CmdrTaco, over at SlashDot, reports that several sources have sent him evidence of the exploit. Enough so that he has confirmed that the dupe is real. For those of you not up on your MMO slang, a "dupe" is a way to duplicate (thus the term) an item thus reproducing or counterfitting it into infiniti. You can see how this could easily ruin a virtual world's economy just as it has in many virtual worlds.
Up until this point, it was thought that World of Warcraft had such clean code that it was essentially dupe-proof. This duping evidence is strongly to the contrary. Also, the same dupe seems to be showing up on several forums where the hard-core hang out.
Here's a quote from someone who claims to have performed it themselves:
* what I did was I was gonna run some friends through VC wayy this morning
* and the warlock soul stoned me
* and I walked in
* and the screen didnt load
* and then about a minute later it warped me out
* and I didnt have a soul stone
* so I traded him all my gold, walked in, waited a minute, got warped out, had my gold
* rinse and repeat =)
Hope that clearifies things up a bit..
You can only do the bug early in the morning after a server reset, have a friend to login with you and trade him your money (or vice versa) then the person who traded his money runs into the instance, waits about 1 minute - 1 minute and 30 seconds and gets booted out, he should have his money back if all worked well.
AND...
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!
Here's to hoping this gets fixed quickly before it ruins what most believe to be the closest to perfect any virtual world has come.
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