Sony’s Bid for Greatness campaign started yesterday to much fanfare, allowing users to bid their virtual trophies on gaming relics. Not one full day into the campaign and PSN user Redsoxfan95 has been accused of cheating his way to greatness. The user won a real-life version of the Black Hand Outfit from the game Killzone Shadow Fall by betting 1,050 gold trophies.
Following the auction, trophy tracking site PSN Profiles tweeted that Redsoxfan95’s profile seemed suspicious. PlayStation Lifestyle then looked at the user’s account and saw that he had gone from 6500 trophies to 14,000 trophies in one day, and had also earned 8000 trophies between November 2012 and January of this year.
Sony hasn’t taken any official action against Redsoxfan95, but PlayStation community manager Morgan Haro has said he will “look into this with the teams and we’ll examine.” The player is innocent until proven guilty, but evidence is starting to mount against him. Even more foreboding is the fact that if one player is able to break the system, more may follow. Sony will have to start monitoring the players who bid to make sure problems like this do not arise again.
Source: Polygon
