Within a week of Winterfell being open to the gamers, they had already come up with thousands of strange ways to earn money. Many Strategy Guides were posted on the discussion forum on how to earn Magic Stones.
For example:
[The easiest way to earn money is by borrowing! There is a place where an NPC loans out 300 Magic Stones, and it will then snowball to three thousand. Their method is to loan 300 but only give out 200 Magic Stones. Then they will find all sorts of reasons for you to repay the loan on the second day. If you cannot pay, they'll find another person to loan you money. Don't hesitate to borrow more money! After numerous times, the figure will have snowballed to an astronomical sum that cannot be repaid. Whoever borrowed the money will have to die. However, we aren't afraid to die. Once we obtain the money, we'll just kill ourselves in front of the NPC.]
