9000 dollars gone in minutes

[Ain't That Something]

Yahoo!

Imagine spending years devoting your time and your finances to acquiring an impressive video game spaceship, one of the biggest and most valuable the gaming world has ever seen.
Now imagine all of that work being destroyed in minutes.
One player of the long-running online game EVE Online experienced that horror Sunday, when an ambush destroyed his supercarrier valued at a whopping $9,000.
The massive world of EVE Online is all about buying, piloting and blowing up spaceships. It’s not for the faint at heart, in part because its in-game currency, called ISK (Interstellar Kredits), carries a real-world value. The Revenant -- one of only three ships that big in existence -- carries a value of 309 billion ISK, making it among the priciest bits of code in the game.
That also made it quite the target.
The ambush played out with plenty of intrigue. Players in the Pandemic Legion received an SOS and assumed it was a player in distress. It turns out the player they had put in charge of leading their fleet was actually a spy for an opposing group, who led them directly into a bunch of dreadnaughts and supercarriers. The owner of the Revenant, a player named TSID, could do little to stop the virtual bloodbath, and the rest is EVE Online history.
The economy in EVE Online is a living thing. CCP, the game's developer, actually has an economist in-house who monitors the virtual world, working to curb inflation or introducing new types of technology to absorb currency. It’s like a virtual Federal Reserve, selling bonds to shrink the money supply.
Technically, players cannot exchange ISK for real-world cash, but CCP does let them use that in-game currency to buy real-world objects (such as graphics cards) and 30-day game time codes.
This isn't the first time the game has seen major losses. Eight months ago, a ship carrying valuable blueprints worth $6,000 in real-world money was destroyed by other players. And while losing a $9,000 spaceship is a serious bummer, the Revenant is still a far cry from the most expensive video game object, an honor held by a $350,000 space station in fellow online world Project Entropia.
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350,000 motherfukking dollars

Which one of you nikkas is this out here losing money like that!

 

[One4Deuce]

LOL, this is classic. And how can you be surprised that having the most expensive sh!t makes you a target?? If there was no punishment in real life, of course people would be breaking into the most expensive house on the block and just taking their shyt.

 

[Slystallion]

if you spent 9000 dollars on something that doesn't exist and has no real value outside in the real world...you deserve to lose it

but if that ship is something that can be sold virtually and you can say sell it down the line for 15000 for real cash then i can see the point of it

but somehow i doubt it works that way ...people are really sinking money into virtual objects that can't be sold in a real marketplace?

At least stocks have an active trading market that can be sold instantly for the most part...don't see that working for a video game ship lmao

the ambush reads like a plot from game of thrones though...nice betrayal lmao...feels like the red wedding and shyt

 

[Ain't That Something]

LOL, this is classic. And how can you be surprised that having the most expensive sh!t makes you a target?? If there was no punishment in real life, of course people would be breaking into the most expensive house on the block and just taking their shyt.

Imagine getting ed out of 9k after years of savings

I would be mad than a motherfukka

 

[Egomaniacal1]

Just utter and absolute dumbness

I'm gonna assume this ship took alot to bring down for that type of money but a basic a law of the universe/life, no matter how strong one may be alone there is always greater strength in numbers.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Imagine getting ed out of 9k after years of savings

I would be mad than a motherfukka

At that point, dude HAD to have logged off and gone outside.

You know dude was

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

EVE Online is really about that life. Reading shyt like this makes me want to jump back into MMOs. Gonna get an all new rig at the end of the year and get back into it.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

But you can tell it's mostly kids that play this game. If it were me, I would have captured the ship and sold it.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

But you can tell it's mostly kids that play this game. If it were me, I would have captured the ship and sold it.

EVE is a very complicated game. Read up on it. The pimply faced dweebs who use shyt like "herp derp" would be food in EVE.

 

[Melt_Man]

EVE Online is really about that life. Reading shyt like this makes me want to jump back into MMOs. Gonna get an all new rig at the end of the year and get back into it.

Is this the game that had a virtual equivalent of Bernie Madoff?

Some player ran an investment fund and ended up stealing everyone's money buying a massive ship and put a huge bounty on his head like

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

game looks but who has time for all that

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

playing MMOs just doesn't work unless you're younger with a lot of free time.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

Dude spent a few years saving up for his Deathstar only to have it destroyed in minutes...

 

[HookersandIceCream]

I love stories like

Mainly because

 

[jackswstd]

I'll be watching the news when whoever dude is hunts down them cats and goes on a rampage.