EVE online hilarity (was forum=22)Follow

Well as many of you know, eve is an online game where you can actually pay for the game with in game money. For those scratching their heads, let me explain.

CCP, the company who made eve, will let people buy GTC (Game time codes) which cost 30 (US) dollars. You can either apply this to your account, or you can turn them into an in game item called a PLEX (Pilot License Extension.) You are given 2 30 day plexes for 1 GTC. At this point, you can turn around and sell it in game for about 300 million, give or take a few mil.

The point of this, is to give you a little insight as to what recently happened in eve. Around the middle of July, CCP made it to where you can undock from stations with PLEX in your cargo hold. Before you could not do this. You could only turn GTC into PLEX in a station, and sell the item in the station. You could not undock with this item, nor could you redeem the code in space. Basically CCP used to make it to where the PLEX was indestructible. Until now. Now you can undock, redeem codes in space, and use PLEX in space. This sounds all fine and dandy until you read this.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7309710

IF you look at the bottom of that killmail, you will notice that the person destroyed, had PLEX in his cargo hold and they did not drop. Look closely. he had SEVENTY FOUR PLEX in his cargo hold.

(74/2)*30=1110

This guy spent over one thousand US dollars so that he could make a total of 22 billion isk in game... and he lost them all. The really messed up part is the fact that none of them dropped when he died.

Six years of prepaid game time will no longer be redeemable... Well played.

I realize I'm late to this thread, but there's more to the story than him spending real life cash on it. He had withdrawn almost all of his alliance's funds to purchase these PLEX of the ingame market, in order to move them to Jita (a tradehub) where the prices were higher, so he could sell them for profit. It's been estimated that he spent approximately twenty-one billion ISK in order to make approximately one hundred million ISK profit, not taking sales taxes into account.

Unfortunately, he did this during a wardeclaration, so he could be targeted by the hostile corporation anywhere and any time... and he flew a practically untanked frigate with no capability for escaping nor winning a fight.

The stupid was strong in this one.

With twenty-one billion ISK I would easily have made several hundred mill profit a day without undocking once in a tradehub. Instead, he was a dumbass who decided to make far less, by doing something utterly and completely stupid, like flying his untanked frigate with 21 billion ISK in the hold right into a system where you just know there'll be wartargets waiting for you.

In short, CCP just made about 1100 bucks from various people turning real life money into PLEX, then never having to redeem them for game-time. And an Alliance just lost their entire wallet due to a dumbass who thought he could make some money through being utterly retarded.