Eve online scam $170,000 in real money

[RelaxTheMind]

I wonder if anyone cried or lost sleep over this... I want to know if I should laugh histerically or not.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

love it

 

[LordMorpheus]

I remember reading about the GHSC heist (wasn't the perp a member here or somesuch) and though it was hilarious.

If I played an MMO, it'd probably be eVe for the amount of freedom it offers.

 

[altonb1]

I don't get it...how does game money become real money?

 

[Fingolfin269]

So, if someone gets scammed in an onling game, where the items are worth $$$, how long until someone finally sues a person irl?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Oh, and in Eve's case, I would roll back everything to last week personally. That game is doing okay but pissing off a few scammers vs. pissing off the majority of the player base is a bad move.

 

[newParadigm]

I'm cosidering starting to play eve, is it the best space based mmo, or are there better ones?

 

[brxndxn]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: brxndxn
That sounds hardcore.. Good stuff..

I played a freakin' sh1t ton of Shadowbane.. an mmorpg where you pvp almost always, build cities, tear enemy cities down, etc. The first thing you did when you wanted to take huge guilds down is get characters in your guild infiltrating into their guilds. You gotta have spies to form a good offense.. Sometimes you could take a guild down just by gaining the trust of the guild and having city assets 'friended' to the spies and the spies could assume control without even having to siege... or it would allow a vantage point for a successful siege (ie.. a guild friends a spy to a house in the city).

There's nothing wrong with spies and dishonest people in mmorpgs. They're open-ended enough that they can emulate real-life and the player base can punish them..

unless of course you're playing a totally pussy-@ss game like WoW where you can't have open pvp and the player base cannot continually punish the crap out of a person with a bad reputation.

What you describe doesn't sound like it emulates real life. In real life there are ways to identify spies. How do you identify a spy in an online game? All communication between the spy and his teamates can occur outside of the game, so there's no way to catch the guy. Or am I totally off-base (I don't play MMOs)?

For one, you start to recognize the voices of certain players.. Also, you can secure communications in your ventrilo or teamspeak server and require your guildmates to log in - and you can see if more than one person is logged in under the same login.

Also, spies don't always know things that guildees should know.. When I ran a guild, I ran a tight ship. It was very easy for me to knock out spies and identify them.. sometimes I would even leave them in the guild and use them to feed false information to the enemy. I set it up once where we were attacking two cities at the same time. The enemy was certain we'd go for city A and we sieged city B.. all because the spy in my guild was fed the wrong information (by almost everyone in my guild). The spy didn't realize we do the majority of our communications on our online forums.

It was a fun game.

 

[Kyanzes]

Originally posted by: altonb1
I don't get it...how does game money become real money?

You put it on ebay. When ppl pay for it, you send them the money ingame. Take a look at ebay and look for ISK. Just like selling characters. Or rare ingame objects. One can make a VERY nice living doing this.

 

[edro]

That's not a scam... that's ingenuity and playing the game with the given set of rules.

 

[rstrohkirch]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
How is a scam like this innovative or so infamous? It seems like doing this would be on everybodies minds that runs a bank in a game like this...?

I've seen better scams on diablo.

I still don't get it. If it's this easy, why hasn't it happened before? And why do people use these banks knowing that it's this easy?

Most RPG include player unique inventories/banks so there would be no need for this...unless you were trying to make interest off your investments...which isn't exactly something I'd be doing in a rpg per the reason you gave