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Most RMT companies function through some combination of 4 things: (1) Buying and reselling (2) Hacking accounts (3) Exploits (4) Bots If they function through #1 then it's often done somewhat privately, and it's with a combination of legitimate players and the people doing 2/3/4. Certain games #4 is viable, like in diablo3 most of the gold came from botting because it was easy as poo poo and clientless bots were developed for that game before the open beta weekend even hit. In games where botting is more difficult or pointless they look toward other methods. In diablo 2, botting is both easy and viable, but because of how easy item duplication is (and other things, that game is wide open for companies like lewt who run like 5 different item selling sites under different names for the same game) the big sites just use exploits. #1 is surprisingly profitable. Players will gladly sell to you for 60% or 70% of what you are selling it for on your site and the turn over is almost instant. #2 is pretty illegal in the US so I never dabbled #3 is super profitable but difficult to discover yourself, and anyone selling these days knows they can make $$$, plus lots of people who sell that kind of stuff are scumbags and sell it to a bunch of people and then it gets patched fast #4 varies from game to game, in some games it's super profitable, in other games it's a waste of time, most of the public bots from the past decade border on waste of time and decent for personal use at best, but that doesn't stop people in poor rear end countries from running as many as they can and making minimum wage selling video game money, but the big sites aren't sitting there using buddybot to do their poo poo Khorne fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Hacking in old games was more fun because the developers did really dumb and insecure things. Especially in old MMOs. Anatharon posted:Huh, I didn't realize they had that much of a problem with that sort of thing, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Khorne fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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