An exploit has come to light in the MMO Neverwinter which has led the economy to ruination whilst the game is still in beta.

Reddit users explain how the exploit allowed players to bid on items in the games auction house for negative amounts, allowing them to win the item and gain the set amount of in game money. This isn’t all though as the in game money can be converted to ZEN, a form of online currency that costs real world cash and can be transferred into other games.

To add further insult some players have racked up insane amounts of in game money, converted it to ZEN and then sold it on to gold-farmers and players wanting a leg-up without taking advantage of the games bug themselves. Players taking advantage of this have gained large amounts of real world money by doing this, some making upwards of $7,000.

Players have been reporting the bug for almost a week, but action has only just been taken to stop the problem. Servers have gone down to fix this issue and roll-back the issue, however the problem is no so far wide-spread it is unknown what the fulle ramifications of this will be at the moment. All that is known is that the price of ZEN has fallen through the floor making people who purchased ZEN from advantageous holding something no longer worth the money they spent on it. 

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