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Amusing story about EQ2 duping & plat selling

Postby Arlos » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:37 pm

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Postby Lyion » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:39 pm

Duping seems to be the norm in MMOs now a days.
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Postby Markarado » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:43 pm

I didn't bother reading the entire thing. Did he mention how much plat he made?
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Postby Rotj » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:37 pm

plenty of lols
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Postby Menlaan » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:57 pm

Markarado wrote:I didn't bother reading the entire thing. Did he mention how much plat he made?


about $100k worth (in dollars)
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Postby Harrison » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:06 pm

Who says cheating/stealing doesn't pay?
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Postby Susvain » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:06 pm

I read it - awesome stuff
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Postby labbats » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:16 pm

$100K doesn't amount to much in real life when you're a pasty self-groper with social dysfunction. But some hookers just hit the lotto.
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Postby Narrock » Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:14 am

That was too funny :lol:
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Postby kiral » Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:22 am

that was also real, 4 hour down time from 2 am est to 6or more am est tonight......

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Postby Lyion » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:46 am

The guy said he made enough to take his family to France. That doesn't sound like 100 grand.

Its nickle and dime compared to the WOW farmers, probably.

Anyways, at least these guys did a bit more work than an inside trader or corporate CEO with a golden parachute. :cool6:
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Postby Menlaan » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:55 am

The 100k estimate came from an FOH thread about the dupe. Didn't it say that they made 3 times what many people make in a year though?

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Postby Lyion » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:09 am

What gaming kids make. And he said he made enough to take his family to France. That's hardly 100k.

He probably made close to 10-15k. I seriously doubt he made 100k.
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Postby Markarado » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:28 pm

Aye, servers were fucked for quite a while. They went up and down 3 or 4 times until finally they brought them down for 4.5 hours. I was so bored ><

We got Vision of Vox and Solusk Fist tho~ wuwu
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Postby xaoshaen » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:12 am

This is when we decided to quit dealing with the low budget distribution companies and go to the top of the line, which will remain nameless. I Guess Everyone will be able to figure it out, easily enough.


Nice line. Regarding the profit from the dupe, keep in mind that initially, people were paying three hundred dollars per platinum piece. If you could keep the market up, you'd need 334 sales to break 100k. Obviously, dumping that many plat into the economy depresses your value, but by the time you're mass-marketing the shit through IGE, you're looking at a massively inflated volume too. Given the scale of the operation, 100k seems quite feasible.
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Postby Martrae » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:56 pm

I bought 2 halasian maulers once for 2cp...I thought someone had made a mistake in pricing.
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Postby Menlaan » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:32 pm

Here's another story of another set of duping. http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/12 ... 30888.html

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