Cheats are executable commands that can be used inside a game. These cheats are only applicable to single or multiplayer / skirmish / campaign LAN games. Games that have cheats are Warcraft (Not World of Warcraft), Starcraft, Dota “Defense of the Ancients” (which is a Warcraft expansion hero vs. hero game) and many more. Executable cheats do not exist in any online role playing game in the market. Cheats are what game developers are keeping away from, because it can ruin the game itself. Good thing there’s no trace of any executable cheats in RF Online.

On the other hand, bugs do exist in online games. They’re what developers and players call as the flaws in the game. Once a game is being developed, the company has what they call “Bug Testers.” Most of the company has this unit to check for flaws in the game. As we all know, companies do Alpha Testing and Beta Testing not just to let players experience the game, but also to help the company look for or find out what are the flaws in the game before they release the game as a commercial product. Few examples of bugs:

• When you cast a skill it doesn’t work.
• When you finish a certain quest, the NPC doesn’t give you any reward.
• When you go to a certain map, it makes your character sprites funny.
• When you kill a mob it doesn’t drop anything, but when you check the monster list in the site, it’s supposed to drop something useful.
• When you buy something in the NPC its cost is low, but when you sell it to another town NPC it sells high.
• When you craft a certain weapon/armor its materials can be easily obtained from level 1 monsters, but when you sell it to the NPCs in town, you’d earn loads of cash.

Bugs that especially involve NPCs should be reported and fixed as soon as possible by the game company, or else these bugs can be exploited and ruin the game’s economy.

Here is an example of a bug in RF Online that has been recently fixed on the release of the new game update.

• The bug of the overlapping chatting window and quick slot cannot use item before.