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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".
I "beat" EVE Online on day zero.
My goal was to never play that game.
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.
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.