__Kanade__ Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 (edited) I just read up on this, check it out. Keep in mind, this happened in a video game Player "Cally" won at EVE Online despite it being a Massively Multiplater game with no victory condition. Other players earn ISK ( game currency ) by mining, completing quests or killing eachother. Cally, on the other hand, simply asked for it. And it worked, and there was nothing they could do about it. Because while other losers went into the economy as honest workers, or corporations, he realized he could go in as a bank. He spent months running the "EVE Intergalactic Bank ( EIB )." This offered loans for start-up EVE corporations and miners who wanted to buy tools, with interest rates and repayment plans and yes, we're still talking about a game people apparently play for fun. Cally certainly had fun: He fulfulled the secret fantasy of every bank manager in history, when one day, he walked in and just took all the money. All the money was 790 billion ISK, about $170,000 in real $, which he used to become the greatest video game villain of all time. He spent a huge chunk of the money to buy a ridiculously powerful warship, another chunk posting a huge bounty on his own head, then sailed off into space just daring people to kill him. The ultimate $&*^ery? He posted a 15-minute video bragging about how he got away with it, mocking his loyal employess at EIB, enemies who failed to stop him and the suckers who basically paid for a second job -- essentially paying for the right to have their money stolen. Understand: Cally is now officially smarter than every Bond villain put together, because he found a way to give an expository monologue without getting killed. In case your wondering, we're still talking about EVE Online tl;dr This player got away with over $170,000 worth of EVE Online's virtual currency using this system and didn't get caught. Want to read more? Check out "The 7 Biggest $&*^ Moves in the History of Gaming" on StumbleUpon. Edited November 10, 2013 by __Kanade__ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychedelicSnake Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPainNoSwol Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 jesus christ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexosaurus Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 +10 to lawsuits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXCrusnik Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 (edited) Old news, but epic nonetheless. Funny thing is this was totally not against the rules or anything. Edit: oh and the 7 Biggest $&*^ Moves In the History of Gaming thing is an article on Cracked.com which is where I first heard about this story lol. Edited November 10, 2013 by AXCrusnik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchemistjkt Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 and to be honest... thats why eve is one of the best and worst games ever... because things like that can happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firetempest Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 (edited) If you want live in a world where sincerity died about 10 years ago, and everyone has a knife behind their back. And you slowly become more and more paranoid. Eve plus a wormhole is that world. Edited November 10, 2013 by Firetempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychedelicSnake Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 If you want live in a world where sincerity died about 10 years ago, and everyone has a knife behind their back. And you slowly become more and more paranoid. Eve plus a wormhole is that world. Sounds more like the real world to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMalachai Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Yeah, that's why I left the game. We're given a malleable new world with pretty much total freedom, and what do we create? A mirror of the real world, only with space ships. EVE has no soul. Can't blame CCP, either. It's the players that did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grodgen Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 So you hate the real world? Nice. I actually like both the real world and EvE's world, alot actually. Lighten up..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaian-a-coel Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Workers: check. Corporations: check. banks: check. Now I'm just waiting for EVE to follow suit and make player-run states, complete with constitution, parliament, government, laws and military force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMalachai Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Nah, I'm cool with the real world. I was commenting more on the big alliances and how they resemble the world powers, only worse. It was part of the reason I left, but not the whole reason. I think that for years I was in love with the idea of EVE, and not EVE itself. There's no point in playing if you aren't having fun. And Kaian, the Null Sec corporations are essentially that. And from what I've been hearing about the new direction the game is going in, it might move out of Null Sec and into Hi-sec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banansa47 Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Cally certainly had fun: He fulfulled the secret fantasy of every bank manager in history, when one day, he walked in and just took all the money. All the money was 790 billion ISK, about $170,000 in real $, which he used to become the greatest video game villain of all time. He spent a huge chunk of the money to buy a ridiculously powerful warship, another chunk posting a huge bounty on his own head, then sailed off into space just daring people to kill him. This player got away with over $170,000 worth of EVE Online's virtual currency using this system and didn't get caught. and became the loneliest player in existence resulting in his account being deleted by him, passed away in his mom's basement due to a clot forming in his brain, or got banned from the game by p!$$#d off Dev's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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