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."

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ok i'll say it

[pezpunk]

...and nothing of value was lost.

Re:ok i'll say it

[kiljoy001]

Or rather in the old EVE adage: Don't fly (or cargo) what you can't afford to replace!

Re:ok i'll say it

[Dahamma]

Actually, since these were paid for with real money and are basically "one month subscriptions" to the game they have as much value as any subscription to a service.

Re:ok i'll say it

[Draek]

Another nice thing of Guild Wars was that, if you spent two months building up your pimped-out sword-focused Warrior and suddenly decided axes looked kinda cool, all you had to do was to enter an outpost, take the points you spent on sword specialization and put them in axes rather than spend another two months building up *another* Warrior on your account from scratch, only this time with axes rather than swords.

But then again, Guild Wars has always been focused on 'casual' playing, preventing any 'hardcore' from gaining too much of an advantage over a casual player, while EVE goes pretty much the other way, pampering its hardcore playerbase and encouraging its casual players to become part of it, with PLEX are one of the main ways they do that. I'm not saying either approach is better, but they are different enough that it feels like an "apples vs oranges" comparison.

Re:ok i'll say it

[X0563511]

However there is also no need to ever undock with one PLEX never mind 74.

You've made one error here - prices can vary by location, and buying/selling is location sensitive.

I'm not arguing about anything else, he definitely acted the fool - but still.

Question for EVE players

[hansamurai]

Is there a reason an out of game object is stored within the game like this? Can you buy them in the game?

Re:Question for EVE players

[Lord Ender]

Ever play arcade games? Remember how you got free games if you did well enough? This is that, but you can trade your quarters in-game just like you trade any other game item.

Re:Question for EVE players

[roc97007]

> Is there a reason an out of game object is stored within the game like this?

My guess is because it increases the profits of CCP.

Meme over

[spun]

This is one of the more condescending and snotty memes out there, like "FTFY" it exists only to mock. Basically it is saying "I militantly don't care about this, and neither should you." Value is a funny thing, by definition it means whatever you want it to mean. There is no 'value' outside of the human mind. In your own mind, you are the absolute master of value, you can place whatever valuation you like on anything you like. So, when you say "Nothing of value was lost" All you are saying is that nothing you value was lost. Which is likely just as true of, oh say, those floods in Pakistan, nothing you value was lost.

But obviously, these PLEX were valuable to quite a few people, not to mention a gaming company.

Re:Meme over

[pushing-robot]

It's just that overvaluing goofy things that other people don't is pretty much the definition of being a geek.

Ah, like sports geeks, and beer geeks, and dance geeks...

Maybe "overvaluing goofy things that other people don't" is the definition of being human.

EVE is the dickhead MMO

[Sycraft-fu]

It is designed specially for people who love to make others miserable. It is a griefer's paradise. One of the main things would be the destructibility of so much in the game that takes so much time to get. You can lose nearly everything under the right circumstances. It would be like a single player game that goes and deletes your saves if you screw up. Also there's a real caste type system in that it takes real time to increase skills, as in you set the game to increase a skill and after a fixed amount of Earth time has passed it does. As such those that got in early have a permanent advantage.

It is a kind of game that most people would really hate, however it appeals to a small subset of gamers. Those that derive their pleasure from causing pain to others love it.

I can't explain why people like that kind of thing but there you go. For them, there is EVE. For everyone else, there is WoW :D.

Re:EVE is the dickhead MMO

[DMUTPeregrine]

I find it fun because there is "real" risk. If I fight that guy, and he kills me, I just lost my ship. I have to get a new one, I don't just respawn with on consequences. I got sick of arenas and battlegrounds in WoW where nothing I did mattered in any way to anyone else but myself and there was no real risk. In EVE I can affect the world around me, even if only in small ways. That's a lot more fun than a game where nothing you do has any consequence.

Re:They should made so the only way to lose it was

[frist]

This is not a game for pussies.

This is not a game for you to play so don't try to change it so it is.

People keep writing this. Let me get this straight. EVE is not a game for pussies. So it's a game for toughguys? Given the choice between categorizing players of a sci-fi MMO as toughguys or pussies, I'm forced to go with pussies. You're playing an MMO for crying out loud, you're not engaging in street fighting.

I think the term you EVE toughguys are looking for is "casual player" not "pussy". But whatever makes you feel tough about playing a SCI-FI MMO. From what I hear, EVE is for pussies and UO or Lineage are for toughguys. You see what I did there?