Old School RuneScape faced another economy-compromising dupe bug this week following the release of new content on September 25. Players found a way to generate countless valuable potions from thin air, forcing developer Jagex to disable all trade, yank the MMO's servers offline, and ultimately roll them back to resolve related issues. A loose timeline of events starts at 1:10am ET today, October 1, with a prominent Reddit post from user FactFetishist.
"Potion storage has a dupe bug," the player declared . "Good job, Jagex." This bug was obviously discovered before this point, but this is the earliest public acknowledgment I can find.
FactFetishist shared a screenshot showing billions of gold worth of potions, including the newly released prayer regeneration potion, stored on one account which is notably a subtype of Ironman that can't trade with other players. (Another user who seemingly owns the pictured account later shared the same screenshot, but without usernames redacted, likely signing the whole group up for at least a temporary ban despite their pleas otherwise.) While mega-wealthy OSRS players may well have thousands of premium potions lying around, a restricted Ironman realistically wouldn't be able to (or, really, wouldn't choose to) amass a stockpile like this the old-fashioned way, and certainly couldn't get so.
.. Austin Wood.