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EVE Online Rocked by 700 Billon ISK Scam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-space-tobacco dept.

Martin Spamer writes "The space MMOG EVE Online, where mining rock plays a big part of the economy, has recently been hit by a huge in-game scam. The aftermath of the EIB scam... was 700 Billion ISK, which might raise some $119,000 USD if sold on Ebay. (The current conversion rate is 100M ISK to 18 USD.) These events have prompted claims of player deaths, death threats, and speculation about What Would You Do With 700 Billion ISK?"

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  1. Apparently.... by kinglink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's like 30 forum posts I can find googling about the EIB scam. but I can't find anyone talking about what it is. Just some dude named Cally screwed a lot of people, and apparently it was legit because of voting or something?

    All I have to say is kudos for getting this story on slashdot since I don't even believe we can call it news. Let's try to at least explain the random stuff we are putting together, or at least keep the topics on stuff a little more mainstream then Eve if we don't want to spend the time actually putting an explination of the facts together.

  2. Re:I love it by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If you are smart enough to scam people and you do it using the ingame restrictions (eg not using any bugs) CCP will not step in and crush you
    What's "smart" about it? Free marketeers think they hate laws, what they forget is that the market is a system of laws, without which there is no market. If there is no contract law in this game, then constructs like banks will simply be untenable, since there's no reason to think the other guy will hold up his end of the bargain. End result, no economy of interest. How is that good?
  3. Re:Perpetrator confessed to it by DDLKermit007 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Man thats just the kind of content developers couldn't hope to create themselves. Theres no way they can touch the guy doing that. This is an example of an MMORPG truley succeding.