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EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."
I thought Ultima Online was unforgiving back in the day...jeebus.
Living With a Nerd
6 years of someones life has just been gained?
I'll pay back Jabba with THIS shipment, I swear!!!
This must be what developers mean when they say pirates ruin gaming.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times:
First pillage, _then_ burn.
It's a shame they blew up with the ship, if they'd dropped then we'd now be reading the headline "eve pirates legally steal $1200".
Sounds familiar. Bond movie plot?
This is sort of like robbing Fort Knox with a nuclear weapon.
The idea isn't so much to take the loot, but to destroy it and in the process make your OWN all that more valuable.
If Viktor and slickdog are PLEX dealers, this might actually work in their favor. Well...judging by their mugshots, they probably just blew up the most money they will ever see.
Or...maybe slick and vik are CCP employees with a specific task. Gives the term "corporate raiders" a whole new meaning.
Ah! The wonders of Alternate Universes! The Drama!
I "beat" EVE Online on day zero.
My goal was to never play that game.
I wonder if any of his insurance packages would cover it?
maybe he can hire some lawyers and sue?
Or he might be able to get a grant from one of the many Obama economic stimulus funds.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
meaning 1 Million dollars worth of money ends up in CCP's pockets without anyone gaining anything out of it.
Now why would CCP allow that to happen?
This is not a game for pussies.... a pussied out game
Wow... You sure must hate pussy. Fortunately, being a hardcore EVE player, you'll never have to worry about encountering it.
Not any more than usual. I don't play EVE or other online games, so it's not personal in that sense. It's just that overvaluing goofy things that other people don't is pretty much the definition of being a geek. I'd hazard a guess that most people here are pretty obsessively into something that most normal people would consider "nothing of value."
The meme is basically a slight against all geek-kind.
Not all geek kind. Just those specific geeks that are slightly different from us. :P
I play Warcraft so I'm NOTHING like them
Oh, I see what you did there.
Lazy
A word used by the obsessed to describe the sane.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Should that viewpoint be applied to any/all video games then? Should ./ not post a video game story?
Especially in the games section. I mean, wtf?!
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
By the time you got 80% of the universe together in one big united alliance, people in that alliance would get bored and double-cross like crazy, stealing everything not bolted to the deck plating along the way.
Sounds like what you really need is a proper reign of terror. Blow up a few civilian planets at random to set an example, that'll keep the rest of them in line.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
And to complete the trifecta...
Dedicated
A word used by the obsessed to describe the method to their madness ;)
What risk is there to Eve, I have never played, is it like WoW?