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RuneScape millionaires?
by Jabrov 7mo ago
RuneScape millionaires?
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoI had swim teammates who made at least hundreds of thousands minting and selling autominers on eBay. I assume if I knew a couple who did that well some made millions.
- draftsman 7mo agoRuneScape private servers used to bring in tons of money. I helped manage one when I was in my early teens, and I can confirm the owner (who was only a few years older than I) was bringing in mid six-figures annually. Then of course there was the rampant gambling. The founders of online casino Stake and streaming platform Kick both started their “careers” in RuneScape gambling. IIRC they invented “staking” which was a method of gambling gold against other players, before they were banned. But the gambling economy in RuneScape used to IRL mint millionaires for sure.
- quackware 7mo agoStaking was a built in feature of RuneScape in the duel arena before it was removed. They did not "invent" it themselves.
- jonasdegendt 7mo agoThey did run a dicing clan as well, FWIW, although I doubt they were the first to do it.
- jonasdegendt 7mo agoThere were dozens of ways to make money off of RuneScape back in the day. Selling bot scripts, running bot farms (this is still very lucrative to this day), running gambling rings, bulk buying gold and reselling, the list goes on. The ecosystem was incredible and it was basically a crash course in Anarcho-capitalism, I'm pretty immune to any kind of scam because of having been in that environment. I made close to 20 grand as a 16 year old through some bug abuse, over the course of 2 weeks if I recall. But alas, I blew it pretty quickly because easy come, easy go.
- isolli 7mo agoI probably lack imagination, but how would gambling work in this game?
- jonasdegendt 7mo agoThe whole game is basically one giant random number generator, so there was a lot to gamble on. E.g., two players put one million gold pieces in their inventory, equip no equipment (so no attack bonuses), every hit on each other is now an RNG roll with identical odds for each player. Battle to the death and voila. That one's quite basic but there were more elaborate games such as flower poker. The game had a flower seeds item which when planted would spawn a flower on the floor. The flower would be of a random color (e.g. red, blue, white, ...). People would bet on which color flower would pop up, or plant plant five flowers sequentially and try and get something akin to a poker hand (e.g. three of a kind, full house). Quite silly, in retrospect, as I'm typing this out.
- isolli 7mo agoQuite imaginative, too... thanks for answering :)