The Duping Glitch of 2017 was a major tragedy in which players quickly started duplicating items by using alt accounts to transfer items. This was obviously not intended by Nikilis and he stepped in to fix it.
An example of a duped inventory
How it started[]
Origin:[]
It was accidentally/unintentionally discovered by people who used alts to transfer items they wanted to trade to others. This was a very popular method to gain skins in 2016, but it became more publicly known in late 2017.
What happened:[]
Once this was discovered, the word spread fast and soon items were being duplicated. Many people quit MM2, due to their value being lost. Many people felt upset due to this happening and soon the people who could dupe had what they called the "Power."
"The Value Drop Year"[]
After the trading servers and trading itself was temporarily closed, there was a time period were people who regularly traded on MM2 just left. There was the big fear of being banned if you had an inventory of 100+ knives. People desperately tried to remove their items to not get banned. This was happening during May of 2018.
Targeted Items[]
Corrupt was heavily targeted. The JD Knife was targeted. The Heart Pet was targeted. Many godlies such as Sugar were targeted. Any valued item was targeted.
Victims[]
- Active traders: (Lost their value)
- People who had Corrupt: (Lost a ton of value)
- People with inventories of 100+: (Unintentionally Banned)
- Dupers: (Banned)
- Nikilis: (Got a ton of negative reviews and comments)
Solution[]
- Nikilis temporarily ended the duping glitch by shutting down trading.
- Trading servers in places such as mm2values were shut down to prevent trading.
- People such as Slouse collected duped items to return to Nikilis so he could delete them.
- Many people who duped were banned.
What it's like today[]
The glitch is gone, and many Tier 1 godlies have regained much lost value. More new items have been added to satisfy people with the value being fixed again. Some high demand duped items, such as Corrupt have regained a lot of the value lost because of the ban of dupers, added along with the fact that the possession of 20+ of this knife results in a immediate ban. Unfortunately, other low-demand items like Handsaw have dropped in value a lot since then and have yet to regain their value.
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Notes and trivia[]
- This was the second tragedy of MM2 History.
- The Glitch Knife came out during the Halloween Event of 2018, so any duplicated Batwings would turn into the Glitch knife.
- It can be inferred that items that were not duped (low value weapons) became comparatively more rare than Godlies.