As in many online games, exploits are actually bugs that game players discover while playing the game and they take advantage of them rather than report these bugs to the game owner, developer or producer. By doing this dirty trick, they are able to do countless things that were strictly prohibited by the game owner developer or producer.

within MMOGs, exploits have also caused many serious issues in the past including the most common issues of all: the vast inflation of the gaming world's market. Many have used exploits go up in levels much faster their friends, gain currency at a quick rate, and have a full access to particular areas of the EQ 2 game that are not intended to be available.