Largest MMO Heist to date!
Well we've all heard of countless instances of MMO drama concerning the theft of in-game goods. Standardly I simply smile and tell those who were victims to stop crying and go eat a sandwich, because if you were dumb enough to level your Ranger in FFXI to 75 and let someone in your linkshell "borrow" your E-Bow you deserve to have your heart ripped out as you strangely never get it back.
According to a new article from QJ.net there has been an even larger case of thefting, which also gets my Idiosyncratic Stamp of Approval. Apparently a fellow in EVE Online going by the name "Cally" opening a corporation called "Eve Intergalactic Bank", which functioned as a real world bank, complete with interest, loans, and insurance. Cally ran this corporation for 4 months until he decided enough was enough, he opened the vault of money players had willingly given him, loaded up his space ship and set off into the wild blue yonder (just pretend space has a wild blue yonder). Apparently the total money present in his account was 790 billion in game credits, which on the RL market would sell for roughly $170,000. I believe this one will ring in now as the single largest MMO scam in history, and assuming Cally has the appropriate location to fence said in game credits *cough* ebay *cough* he can make out like a bandit. zing
The best thing about the whole thing, outside of Cally getting to take a few years off of work (you know, unless he's 12) is that he later revealed his prior status as the pirate with the highest bounty in the game. That's like letting Jeffrey Dahmer babysit your kids, and well children, I'm a fan of irony. Well played cleric, we salute you.
\\drew
According to a new article from QJ.net there has been an even larger case of thefting, which also gets my Idiosyncratic Stamp of Approval. Apparently a fellow in EVE Online going by the name "Cally" opening a corporation called "Eve Intergalactic Bank", which functioned as a real world bank, complete with interest, loans, and insurance. Cally ran this corporation for 4 months until he decided enough was enough, he opened the vault of money players had willingly given him, loaded up his space ship and set off into the wild blue yonder (just pretend space has a wild blue yonder). Apparently the total money present in his account was 790 billion in game credits, which on the RL market would sell for roughly $170,000. I believe this one will ring in now as the single largest MMO scam in history, and assuming Cally has the appropriate location to fence said in game credits *cough* ebay *cough* he can make out like a bandit. zing
The best thing about the whole thing, outside of Cally getting to take a few years off of work (you know, unless he's 12) is that he later revealed his prior status as the pirate with the highest bounty in the game. That's like letting Jeffrey Dahmer babysit your kids, and well children, I'm a fan of irony. Well played cleric, we salute you.
\\drew
posted by Drew at 2:23 PM
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