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Twinking For Cash

Nov 16, 2001 7:06am CST tags: RPG News
CamelotVault (Thanks Mitch) has something interesting about 3 employees being fired due to alleged character tweaking on the public servers. It's not really known if they were cheating just to have cool characters or selling stuff on eBay.

"The person in charge of quest investigations for customer service and two part-time phone support people were let go on Tuesday," she said. "We don't comment on internal matters. We do extensively log all transactions within Dark Age of Camelot, and take this sort of thing extremely, deadly seriously." Mythic's response, which came at a time when they were embroiled in another controversy involving the defunct internet rant site, Slow News Day, should reassure their player base that they will not tolerate cheating in any form, even among their own staff.

This reminds me of a similar occurence with another company allegedly catching some employees doing something very similar situation. It makes you wonder just how many people with admin access are doing things like this in these games and selling off items? I mean looking at the pricing for DAOC items on eBay. You can make an absolute killing in there.

                                                          

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