Gold dupe hoax
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From The Gold Dupe – WoW’s Biggest Hoax (so far) - Mogrin:
- http://wow.ogaming.com/images/letters/I.gif believe it was Tuesday, July 19th when someone began a terrible rumor that turned out to be the biggest hoax in WoW history. Every Tuesday the servers receive weekly maintenance in the morning (Pacific time). Supposedly, there was a way to duplicate gold into seemingly unlimited amounts, given that certain conditions were met.
- The first I had heard of this “dupe” it was level 60 hunters all flocking to Maraudon. Given the power of Photoshop, someone good could easily doctor a screenshot to show 50 hunters in Maraudon, all level 60. I gave it some thought, but when I saw the panic that erupted, I investigated myself.
- It seems there are many different stories on how this “dupe” works. Certain sites which won’t be linked asked for a paying membership to access their website, which held the “top secret method of duping” in WoW, as well as countless other games. Other sites and people who had gotten a hold of the information posted it for free. The most popular (and probably realistic) method was to try and bug a character into an instance, therefore creating a rollback for that character. The first occurrence of the dupe was said to have happened sometime when the maintenance was occurring.
- Someone gave a friend gold, was rolled back by an instance bug, and received his gold back, while his friend retained the gold he gave him. Here is where I found this whole thing was a shamble: it has to be during the morning, and you have to bug yourself into an instance by walking in and out of it quickly. What difference does it make what time of the day it is? And wouldn’t this rollback also delete the gold you gave to the person, since it is a ROLLBACK, and it returns everything to as it was, basically like time traveling in the game, as if the events after the rollback never occurred. The idea of this rollback is fundamentally flawed. Other reports showed that you had to be level 30 and do it in Maraudon. Others showed any level 20 could achieve it in Deadmines. The stories and methods all varied so widely that it was hard to even conceive this was possible.
- Another fact to consider is that if someone or some group of people actually stumbled on a way to duplicate gold, would they really tell the entire WoW community? I mean, if I could find an *undetectable* way to generate gold in WoW, I would be very rich very quickly. I could level up characters on any/every realm and just duplicate gold and sell it for real money. There are over 100 realms, with hundreds of thousands of people playing on the US realms. Furthermore, selling a duplication method to a gold selling agency, provided you proved that it worked, could be worth thousands and thousands of dollars. The people behind this dupe method claim they would rather see the WoW economy falter on every server then profit for themselves. That’s a debatable topic, whether or not personal gain was more appealing then the possible crash of WoW, but given that this was all a big hoax, it’s folly to begin to argue the motives of the people behind this dupe.
- If you look at the evidence as a whole, you can see conflicting arguments, photoshopped screenshots and the fact that not ONE CREDIBLE SOURCE has confirmed the bug tells me that someone pulled the biggest prank in WoW’s history. And for all the idiots who are STILL raving on about this (and I’ll tell ya – the amount of people whining in Orgrimmar is enough to make me explode) just take five minutes to look at the overall situation and THEN form an opinion. Most of these people are just jealous of others who claim they can get duplicate gold. Why do people lie about it? Probably to make other people jealous for no apparent reason. Blizzard has so far stated they haven’t found any evidence to support a possible dupe.
- Finally, there was one incident where a character DID amass hundreds of thousands of gold via server lag and a bug. He sent the gold to all his friends and stuff. Within hours, GM’s found the enormous amount of gold, traced them back to being instantly created, closed the account for a week, investigated it, and managed to send back EVERY item bought on the AH to its original seller, taking away all the gold these sellers received for their items, as well as tracked the gold sent to all friends and got rid of it, and cleaned up the entire situation. The person was allowed to continue playing and was not deemed responsible for it, but it goes to show that GM’s monitor large quantities of gold. Even in the hundreds. So anyone who possibly COULD dupe would have been caught by now. And if he was generating gold slowly as to not gather suspicion from GM’s, then he wouldn’t be able to overturn the economy by generating small amounts of gold. Furthermore, anything having to do with packets would be routed immediately, since they interrupt real server packets. Please, give it a rest, and take it into stride that you were fooled. We all were, if only for moment or two.
