Cheating in Online Multiplayer Games
the huge popularity of massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, Everquest and RuneScape, trading of virtual currency has also become popular. This has lead to virtual economies being formed. With the rise of virtual economies, some players have begun to cheat to get large amounts of in game money. In some cases in-game money can be traded for real cash. The most common method of cheating in such a way is done through the use of macros. A player may write a small script to automate a certain cash generating task.
The terms of service of online games will usually prohibit the trading of in-game items for real money.
Twinking
Twinking is the practice of passing valuable items to a lower level player who would not otherwise be able to gain such an item. This is common practice in games such an
