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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59p7qd/this-man-has-survived-by-hacking-mmo-online-games
I wish I wasn't a lousy singleplayer worm, hacked every MMO out there and become a billionaire.
Then again, I probably wouldn't even try selling hacked stuff, I don't buy any ebay gamerelated stuff ever so I'd just assume noone would.
What about you?
On a boring day, he discovered a bug that would change the course of his life. In Ultima Online there was a pre-set, finite number of houses that could be created within the game, so they were a scarce resource. Manfred says he found a way to delete people's houses and take over their lots, allowing him to build more houses than he normally would be able to.
One day, Manfred told me, he had the idea of putting an Ultima Online castle on eBay to see if someone would buy it. He ended up selling it for almost $2,000, according to him (Manfred says he sold around 100 houses since then for an average price of around $2,000.)
"Hey this is real money!" Manfred recalls thinking. "That pretty much paid for my college. I pretty much sold houses and castles from Ultima Online for three or four years and paid my way through college."
But Ultima Online was just the beginning. In the two decades since, Manfred says he found ways to hack and profit off of several games: Lineage 2, Shadowbane, Final Fantasy XI, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of The Rings Online, RIFT, Age of Conan, Star Wars New Republic, Guild Wars 2, and others.
I wish I wasn't a lousy singleplayer worm, hacked every MMO out there and become a billionaire.
Then again, I probably wouldn't even try selling hacked stuff, I don't buy any ebay gamerelated stuff ever so I'd just assume noone would.
What about you?
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