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The Deadly Dollar of Eve Online

Posted by Zonk on from the taking-it-in-the-wallet dept.

The Escapist this week talks griefing and griefers. One of their features delves into the down and dirty economic wars in Eve Online. From the article: "Having transferred the money and placed their trust in these virtual business proposals, the investors realized that they had been duped, but could do nothing to rescue their lost capital. The scam tolled 480 million ISK (EVE's currency), which is almost $1,000 in meatspace money."

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  1. The Escapist is a Pain in the Neck, er, Eyes by poena.dare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm very tired of The Escapist. Their fonts don't scale and they try too hard to make a web page look like a magazine. Somebody throw me the highlights 'cause the site gives me a headache.

  2. The Truth about the "great scam" + clarification by ArachV0id · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here's a topic about the article on the EVE-Online forums; http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topi c&threadID=248136 The "Great Scam" was pretty much entirely fictional, an entertaining story written and inspired by a much more simple scam where someone got investments, paid 50% on top back for a while and then ran off with all the money once he got some publicity and massive investments. Quote from thread: "Haha, oh Nightfreeze. You wonderful "goon", people still think your piece is real." The stuff about the Ubiqua Seraph "job" is for the most part true, apart from a couple of minor points, such as the article writer overestimating the rarity of Mirial's Apocalypse Navy Issue (about 2 billion worth), the Apocalypse Imperial Issue used to destroy it is indeed a unique item in the game, only two of which still exist, and no more of which will be released according to the devs (estimated value 15-25 billion isk). The heist and assassination were extensively covered by PCGamer UK in the september edition and have been all over the news everywhere since, here's a link to online scans of the article: http://eve.klaki.net/heist/ I'm pretty sure that'll stand up to being slashdotted ;p PS. I'm the CEO of GH-SC.