RuneScape millionaires?

jonasdegendt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There 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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I probably lack imagination, but how would gambling work in this game?

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draftsman 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

RuneScape 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.

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quackware 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Staking was a built in feature of RuneScape in the duel arena before it was removed. They did not "invent" it themselves.

	▲	jonasdegendt 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They did run a dicing clan as well, FWIW, although I doubt they were the first to do it.

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JumpCrisscross 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I 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.