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"Gamer steals Virtual Money to pay for real life debts."
Serveur: Ifrit
Game: FFXI
Posts: 24692
By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-07-06 16:23:25
well, I guess he's the one that got caught, he should have taken a page from those piracy guilds lol
Serveur: Fairy
Game: FFXI
Posts: 5645
By Fairy.Xxnumbertwoxx 2009-07-06 16:25:47
Oh, that game gets deep in it, there's spies and ***, people join guild for months, build up trust, then turn on their guild members, assassinate a few peeps, steal their banks, hijack their cargo and dip out, etc...
Plus, there's just one BIG server that everyone plays on, so there's no way to really server hop...eventually people get a bad name for themselves and HAVE to join a pirate guild cause no one else will take them ^^
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-07-06 16:27:16
wow, I bet that "Freak Out" kid plays that game too, I can totally see him smashing his head into the computer screen
Serveur: Fairy
Game: FFXI
Posts: 5645
By Fairy.Xxnumbertwoxx 2009-07-06 16:28:40
Hell yeah, think of how many remotes he'll shove up his *** playing Eve!
Serveur: Bahamut
Game: FFXI
Posts: 31
By Bahamut.Nightcrew 2009-07-06 16:34:10
i know this one isn't going to go over too well, but yeah, he pissed off a ***load of PLAYERS. its not like the poor SoB went out and killed 3 people robbing a bank or a liquor store. if he really had to get that money, he really found the lesser of 2 evils. whats done is done. something that could have ruined many real lives only inconvenienced virtual people.... so oooo, you don't get that upgraded armor as soon as you hoped. if you don't want people stealing your game ***then keep it under your bed, or don't play if you don't like that something can happen cuz of "a flaw in the game system". really, it's a game. if you put soo much into it that you feel someone should be murdered cuz they wanna buy coin for w/e reason or they farm soo much that they can make an extra buck sell their overflow, then dude, you're doing it wrong. the people who do that don't care what you think and no amount of Soap Boxing is gonna change that BS. the best we can do is hope that the Special Task Force can put out the fires as they come up.
anyway, that broke down into something i wasn't expecting. that last part was general and not aimed towards anyone.
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Game: FFXI
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-07-06 16:45:29
THATS WHAT HE SAID!
Midgardsormr.Sammitch
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By Midgardsormr.Sammitch 2009-07-06 16:59:55
Kungfuhustle said: THATS WHAT HE SAID! THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! IIRC people have been ganked IRL over Eve shenanigans gone wrong. Lot of hardcore wackos out there on the ol interwebs...
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Game: FFXI
Posts: 24692
By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-07-06 17:02:32
buncha hardcore wackos here too, they truly think their virtual life is more important.
THAT'S PATHETIC!
Serveur: Asura
Game: FFXI
Posts: 19
By Asura.Kyofooyo 2009-07-06 18:40:38
just adding to the people who were talking about how much he SHOULD have made. he wasn't playing FFXI, so Brogame wouldn't offer $13 or how much per million. their currency is different value, so would pay much less.
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Game: FFXI
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-07-06 19:18:43
VIRTUAL MONEY FTW!
Lakshmi.Rylis
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Game: FFXI
Posts: 129
By Lakshmi.Rylis 2009-07-06 20:36:59
Ghuda said: Kungfuhustle said: thats why I won't marry someone with debt, I don't need the extra ***. for some reason that made me lol, if thats you in your avatar i wouldnt be so picky lmao If that was indeed him in his avatar, I'd marry him.. Could bet he didn't have debt.. And that he'd be pretty funny, too.. Similarly, that's me, in my avatar. Sexy, huh? As for EVE.. It's always been my understanding that the game's motto was along the lines of.. "Do whatever the hell you'd like.." Obviously, not against the ToS, but anything you can get away with up until that point, theft, betrayal, blah blah, you're good to go.. That's why this guy, who had built up a good reputation, was able to access so many credits that didn't belong to him, and thus, screw them over.. So, did he steal? Yep.. So does the general population of EVE..
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Game: FFXI
Posts: 24692
By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-07-06 21:13:33
I've never even heard of Eve till this article, but it sounds like a real twisted game...
TORONTO, July 2 (Reuters) - Facing real world debts, a trusted figure in a popular online game stole money from the virtual bank he ran and exchanged it for cash through the black market.
It happened in EVE Online, where more than 300,000 subscribers pay $15 a month to play. They gain wealth through hard work, manipulating the market, or killing rivals in a distant future where humans have colonized the stars in an online game similar to World of Warcraft and Second Life.
EBank, EVE's largest player-run financial institution which has thousands of depositors, is at the center of the scandal.
"Basically this character was one of the people that had been running EBank for a while. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and traded it away for real money," said Ned Coker, of the Icelandic company CCP, which developed the game.
The CEO of EBank, a 27-year-old Australian tech worker who identified himself only as Richard and used the online name Ricdic, embezzled about 200 billion interstellar kredits, the game's virtual currency.
He broke the rules of the game by exchanging the stolen virtual funds for $6,300 Australian ($5,100) with players who preferred to buy virtual money rather than earn it playing the game.
"It was a very on the spot decision," the married father of two explained in an interview.
He said a spam email for a black market website that traded online money for real cash popped up on his screen, prompting him to exchange the virtual cash for real money to cover a deposit on his house and expenses related to his son's medical problems.
"I saw that as an avenue that could be taken, and I decided to skim off the top, you could say, to overcome real life (difficulties)."
Word of the theft spread quickly within EVE. Panicked customers started a run on the bank, worried that they would lose the money they had amassed by hunting space pirates or mining asteroids.
Ironically, if Ricdic had merely stolen the online money he could have stayed in the game. But exchanging the virtual cash for real dollars broke the rules and CCP banned Richard's EBank accounts.
"It unbalances the game," Coker said.
Players can only buy virtual money with real money, or use virtual cash to pay for playing time, but they cannot exchange game money for the real thing.
"We have never seen ourselves as gods who make the rules of social interaction," said Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, an economics adviser to CCP. "You are able to lose the things you have created. That's what makes the world interesting."
Ironically, Richard had built a reputation as one of EVE's few trusted players -- a rare commodity in a game where repeatedly blowing up a violator's spaceship was the only way to enforce some contracts.
Asked if he had any regrets about the scam, Richard said he felt he let down his fellow EBank staffers, many of whom he considered friends.
"I'm not proud of it at all, that's why I didn't brag about it. But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would've chosen the same path based on the same situation," he said.
EBank survived the crisis. But Richard will not be returning to EVE anytime soon.
"At the moment, we've got our hands full," Richard said about his family responsibilities in the real world.
/Sarcasm -.- Glad to know he would repeat his behavior all over again if given the chance.
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