Old School RuneScape Exploiter Manages To Farm $120K Worth Of In-Game Gold
In any game, there will always be players who’ll find loopholes and exploits for personal gain. While this doesn’t pose much of a problem in solo games, it becomes infinitely more problematic in multiplayer games and MMOs where other players or even the game’s economy is affected, as is the case in a recently revealed exploit in Old School RuneScape.
The exploit in question involves a bug when reversing the imbuing process in the Soul Wars minigame. In theory, unimbuing an item should only refund the cost of the item or a portion of the original cost. The bug, however, caused the system to issue refunds much higher than the original value after a patch in November which allowed a player named Lyrn to farm billions in in-game gold and sell them for a whopping $120,000 in real-world cash.
To achieve this, Lyrn repeatedly imbued Black Masks for 250 points and then unimbued them for 400 points using bot scripting to generate millions of points every hour. He then used the points to buy and sell bundles of resources through the auction house. The resource bundles themselves don’t cost much but the quick turn around allowed him to generate roughly 500 billion gold, 400 billion of which he then sold for $120,000 in cold hard cash.
Lyrn shared the details of his gold farming operations to YouTuber SirPuggers who noted that the prices of the said resources considerably dropped while the Lyrn’s gold-generating scheme was in progress which seems to his claim.
The exploit has since been patched and the economy has somewhat recovered since Jagex fixed the bug, but there’s some doubt about whether Lyrn actually did what he claims to have done. You can check out SirPuggers’ video below and let us know what you think.
