Aion Bug Awards Players Trillions in Currency

[ffxfriek]

Wow...thats, alot of 0's!

it really is more then 10. crazy bugs though

 

[Deleted]

That character in the picture jumped out of a window because the money is worthless now.

 

[Darktau]

At least Aion handled it well, simple, yet effective.

 

[CloudKiller]

If this had happened to me I would have immediately switched my character to another server, before the rollback, and taken all that lovely gold with me.

 

[P00dle]

does Kinahs have a real sell value like the wow-gold?
If so maybe some fast thinking person could have gotten pretty rich from this bug if he sold it before people knew about the glitch.

 

[Rayansaki]

Well, it's good to see that all five people playing Aion are now doing well for themselves!

All 5 people are doing well, unlike the other 5 million that also play.

 

[messy]

1,000,000,000,000,000 (I believe that is a Trillion, 1000billion, or 1000 1000 Million)

Or is a billion a million million? (and does that make trillion a billion billion)

And which one occured in the game; anyone know?

Also be "nice" to see a bug with an in-game reccession where players suddenly have to pay loads to keep in game banks etc. Compare with how the real world works and see how viable a model of a real economy an MMORPG is. There was that whole tainted blood thing with WoW awhile back that apparently was a model for infectious diseases (to some extent)

 

[hansari]

As awesome as it would be to log in to a game and find myself rich beyond belief, an in-game economy is so important that I personally would probably have returned at least 33 trillion Kinah if his happened to me. The other trillion would be my reward

Reward?

Wouldn't logging in to find that cash just be sheer dumb luck?

Still...what you bring up is interesting. Imagine if, rather than risk becoming the butt of jokes, heads of an MMO decided to make a deal with you and to keep things "hush-hush". The quietly roll out a patch to quickly fix the problem...

 

[Niccolo]

1,000,000,000,000,000 (I believe that is a Trillion, 1000billion, or 1000 1000 Million)

Or is a billion a million million? (and does that make trillion a billion billion)

And which one occured in the game; anyone know?

Also be "nice" to see a bug with an in-game reccession where players suddenly have to pay loads to keep in game banks etc. Compare with how the real world works and see how viable a model of a real economy an MMORPG is. There was that whole tainted blood thing with WoW awhile back that apparently was a model for infectious diseases (to some extent)

A "British Billion" is a million million, but the billion everyone everywhere uses is a thousand million. Not sure why it's called a British billion, that's just the name I've heard. A standard billion is a thousand million, a standard trillion being a million million. In the other terms, a "British Trillion" would be a million billion - a one followed by eighteen zeroes. A number not used simply because it is wholly unnecessary.

As such, the Aion players had 35 000,000,000,000 kinah to play with.