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For your reading pleasure, I present the party hat duplication glitch. I could go into more detail, but it might start breaking Jagex rules if I go any more... Hyenaste^talk 00:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow that's really neat! I wish I could duplicate items hehe. Dreadnought^talk

How would it break the rules pl0x? JalYt-Xil-Vimescarrot 07:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

It was revealed how the glitch was performed. It was by forcing the client to offer zero of an item in a trade. It hasn't been possible for years, so there's no harm in letting the word out :P

Many purple phats were deleted, but only in cases where people had huge amounts of them. Jagex didn't mind that the purple phat market was destroyed because they hated the rare market anyway.

It's kind of an interesting story :)--Wowbagger421 04:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Jagex hated the rare market? I thought that by creating tradeable rares they were subtly endorsing it Chaoticar 04:32, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

They've said that they never intended to make the rares market (when they released the drops they said "while you could sell them to other playewrs, that's not in the christmas spirit" or similar) but I've never seen an official source for Jagex actually hating the market. People just assume it. 194.80.21.10 13:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[http://www.runescape.com/kbase/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2441 Hate.] Dtm142 04:05, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I think I read somewhere that the person who explained to Jagex got banned permanently instead of a life time membership even though he didn't abuse the glitch, can somebody confirm this to me or tell me if i'm wrong --Anti bones 16:47, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

i have a purple p hat

i have one and now its worth 155m and well blue is worth 450m and my cuz has that one and well prices have really changed. --kelvin s1

Those stupid idiots that duplicated the party hats... I could have a blue one right now. Patcong ^talk 17:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Black book of RuneScape

A few years ago(2005/2006?) I found a website/forum called "the black book of runescape" written by sixfeetunder, giving amazing details about the dupe, and the banker killing. Not sure where to find it now, but it could definitely expand knowledge of this event.

Classified as glitching or hacking?

Since third party software was involved, shouldn't this qualify as a hack and not a glitch?  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.27.243.202 (talk).

They used hacking to exploit the glitch, so it could be classified as both.

1. REDIRECT User:C Teng/sig 01:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

4 April revert

Revert edits of 4 April as no reason was given for revert and no response even after leaving note on editor's talk page. If disagreement, please note them here before another revert. thanks, Chrislee33 19:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

New name for glitch

There is a name I use for this,on my page User:Rc 2112.It's the Sixfeetunder Hack.sounds better. P.S.If anyone has a pic of the Rune 2h sword,put it on my talk page.thanks. Rc 2112,STRENGTH THROUGH CHAOS ^talk! 21:20, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

"The Sixfeetunder Hack" doesn't say anything about what the glitch was all about. User:C Teng/sig 21:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

How about "The Sixfeetunder party hat hack"?Rc 2112,STRENGTH THROUGH CHAOS ^talk! 21:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Why would we use that name instead of "Party hat duplication glitch"? User:C Teng/sig 21:46, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Isn't this more of a hack rather than a glitch as it used a third party software? --Flame Sage66 04:39, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Jagex news item about glitch

Is this about this glitch? User:C Teng/sig 23:00, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Probably, since the dates match up and the update specifically talks about party hats and christmas crackers. --Iiii I I I 23:04, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

This too. User:C Teng/sig 23:05, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, that answered my question. --Anti bones 23:42, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Is this possibly one of the reasons there was no 2003 Christmas event? Or was it just because people complained about not getting anything? User:C Teng/sig 21:58, January 12, 2010 (UTC)

That was mainly because of people complaining, but I'm sure this incident didn't help any. Damnads 00:59, January 19, 2010 (UTC)

3rd party software

Should the name of it really be mentioned? While informative surely the wiki shouldn't be naming illegal 3rd party software. I myself would take it off but there could be some reason it's kept that I'm unaware of.  Archmage Elune  ^Talk_HS fetus is my son and I love him. 06:36, January 26, 2010 (UTC)

reward offered by Jagex, IPs banned instead

I removed this until hopefully we can get some other source somewhere. I wrote part of it badly, I meant to imply that Jagex likely used the IPs of those explaining the glitch as a means to check who had impossible numbers of p hats and such, and only they were banned. But this is pure speculation so I can't put it in the article.--Degenret01 14:33, January 26, 2010 (UTC)

Reward offered by Jagex: [1] It doesn't say anything about lifetime membership, though. User:C Teng/sig 16:08, January 26, 2010 (UTC)

I rewrote the final sentence with that info. _{Evil Yanks} ^talk 03:01, January 27, 2010 (UTC)

10000 years

in andrews post, he said it took 10000 years for anybody to notice this- wtf? 3rd age farcaster 03:23, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

Most likely a fail from Andrew Twig Talk https://i.imgur.com/772kZGs.png 03:27, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

Source? Dux bell0rum 03:31, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

bottom of the article 3rd age farcaster 03:42, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

He means the references at the bottom of the article in case you were wondering. _{Evil Yanks} ^talk 06:46, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

I don't know what it means, either. User:C Teng/sig 00:56, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

I think he means total time spent in-game, cumulative of all accounts ever made. It is a massive number if I am right _{Evil Yanks} ^talk 05:59, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

evil, thats just not... possible. much to big of a number 3rd age farcaster 18:48, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

Yes it is. If one player plays every day for four hours, thats 60 days of in-game time per year. If six players do this, you have a total of 360 days (almost a year) of total playtime. Thus if 60,000 players play for four hours every day for a year, you have nearly 10,000 years of playtime per year. Thats not at all unreasonable for today's player count, and probably wasn't too bad for 2003 when he made that post, and certainly not if he counted previous years (back to 2001). inclusivedisjunction 00:43, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Name of page

Should the title of the page be "Partyhat Duplication Glitch" or "Item Creation Glitch"? Item creation glitch sounds better because you could create and not duplicate any item. And not just partyhats. --kthxbai ʇɐusʌʇɐu 03:49, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

How?

First sentence:

"The partyhat duplication (...) Its effects continue to have an impact on the economy of RuneScape today."

How does it have an effect on the economy today? Vaatikitten ^{Talkpagethingy} 19:19, January 29, 2011 (UTC)

Because it increased the number of party hats available, especially the purple one, thus decreasing their rarity and the amount people were willing to pay for them. Inclusivedisjunction 08:55, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

Lifetime Membership winner?

Does anyone know who won the lifetime membership? I think it would be an interesting peice of trivia to add to the page. 04ismailjj6 (talk) 12:29, April 23, 2013 (UTC)