/biz/ - Business & Finance

Hey everyone, so as we know, hacking exists, and its very profitable, provided you find the right game and the right people who buy hacked items which is not as hard as you might think, since you just sell it, without saying its hacked. The upside is, you can make alot of $, but the downside is, you can totally mess with a games economy if you over do it.

There is a game I play, & there are a group of hackers, mainly 1 real hacker, and 2 other lackeys that sell the hacked items, and they have 1 person that sells to people now, while they sit back and collect the $

>1 hacker gives items to 2 guys
>2 guys hold different hacked items and give to 1 guy to sell to players
>1 guy is able to make a bit of $, while the 2 guys make a bunch for not much work
>hacker gets paid a cut of every single deal

We're talking like $5000 a month, split 40, 25, 25, and 10. The kicker is, these guys are only 19/20, so it's basically just free passive income.

I would like to get into this, hacking games and selling items, because the money is very good for someone like me who doesn't like to work a day job or have a boss or anything, and I'm in university (Finance Major, top school).

My question to you guys is, since there are many programmers amongst you, where should I begin? How does someone actually learn how to hack a game? I have basically no programming knowledge, but I have 8 months of free time right now, and I'd like to put that to good use learning a new skill, and I think programming/hacking might be what I want to learn. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Also, does /biz/ think its worth the effort to learn how to program/hack, to be able to make a few thousand $'s a month in passive income, doing maybe 5 minutes of work per day, and just logging in to distribute items? I already have a game in mind by the way, and it's according to the hacker, very badly made, so that's why he's able to hack it, with his beginner skill level (he's actually only 17).