I like turtles.
Probably more like he didn't expect whether it was okay or not to ever become relevant.
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Why did he think that would be OK?
The mod's friend? Probably because he's a dumb English teen who just didn't think it through. "Oh hey me and my guild are abusing a bug that was implemented by Jagex staff, but oh boy I bet this would get a ton of hits on youtube and twitch!". The mod himself? He's been working with the team since 2006, I doubt at this point he thinks he could have gotten caught. The worst part is this wasn't technically the first time he "accidentally" implemented a bug either. There was a famous bug years and years ago that lasted for years in the game that only very few ever discovered, because it was so arbitrary to execute. It involved setting up a very expensive item in one world, leaving that world, retrieving another one of those expensive items, setting it up on the exact same spot as the first world (down to the exact square), and then hopping back to the original world while standing on top of that item. It made you invincible. Turns out this same Mod had "accidentally" left that bug in the game sometime around 2009, and somehow "accidentally" implemented it again a year ago in the re-iteration of oldschool runescape.
This guy had been getting away with it for years without ever being caught. He was part of the head-team at Jagex that fought against bug abuse and had supposedly been "very involved" in squashing out bug abuse in MMOs since 2002, so it's no wonder how he knew how to implement it without being caught. It's just a shame he got greedy.
Furthermore, the kid that was abusing the bug for him not only was abusing the bug, but has been known for a couple years now to be a gigantic scamming asshole. He has ways to DDOS people playing runescape while they're in the wilderness (a Player vs Player zone) so that when he runs up and attacks them, he DDoS's them, and they lose connection to the game and can't fight back, and he steals all their items. He's been caught numerous times and never banned. He also bots on the game a LOT, sometimes for 30-40 hours straight (And gloast about it posting pictures of it and videos) and has never once been banned.
Honestly this is extremely intruging to me as someone that's dabbled in the MMO blackmarkets for years and has made somewhat decent income when I did. He was able to make tens of thousands of dollars with very little effort, unnoticed, and totally away from the eyes of authorities or anywhere else. You can sell gold for BitCoin, completely untaxed and unregulated, away from the eyes of the IRS, etc etc, and get away with it no problem. You guys don't know what I'd give to have seen it through this guy's eyes personally.
This certainly isn't the first time an employee has gone rogue in an MMO company and done something like this, but it's certainly the first time it's been so heavily involved with teh community as well, and linked so heavily with bug abusers and scammers. It's like a wonderful movie that we'll never truly get to see, but can only enjoy the trailers to and hear about it from friends.
