If given a chance to exploit a game bug, would you? Are you a goody two shoes that would report it directly to the developers or are you a sly devil and exploit it until the developers find out and release a new patch to fix it.

I recall a time when a friend of mine was playing Tantra, he was a die hard fanatic for the game! If I didn’t know better I would have thought he was being played by the company to play and campaign for it. One day I saw my friend playing at a computer shop and there was a commotion among the players. Apparently they found a bug that would allow you to upgrade your items and would guarantee a 100% success! My friend being the fanatic that he is was warning the other players not to use the bug, minutes went by and despite my friend’s warning the other players continued to exploit the bug. Realizing it was a lost cause my friend stopped warning the other players and continued to play keeping to himself in his station. Hours passed and the bug spread like wildfire! Now a lot of people were using the bug, even the veteran players who respect the game rules and followed it obediently. Like a demon tempting a poor soul I saw my friend abandon his honor and approached the other players and asked them to teach him how to work the bug.

Moral of the story is when there’s a wily will there will always be a wily way. When players find a bug, they will exploit it. As Morpheus once said, “some of their rules can be bent, others can be broken“.