Player steals billions in EVE Online, trades it for real money and buys house
EVE Online has a reputation for having in-game crimes happen left and right. Most of it’s even condoned since crime is an inherent part of the game’s virtual economy. It’s a different ball game when players actually take the virtual cash they steal and sell them for real world money, however.
EVE Online has a reputation for having in-game crimes happen left and right. Most of it’s even condoned since crime is an inherent part of the game’s virtual economy. It’s a different ball game when players actually take the virtual cash they steal and sell them for real world money, however.
That’s what a player known as Ricdic did. As a chief executive of EBank, one of the game’s largest financial institutions, Ricdic embezzled about 200 billion’s worth of ISK. Eve Online developer CCP decided he stepped over the line when he went and traded the ISK for actual cash amounting to over US$ 5,000.
Ricdic, now known to be a 27-year-old Australian who works in the technology industry, was thrown out of EVE Online for going against the game’s terms and conditions, but not before he used the cash to put down a deposit on a house and to pay medical bills.
“I’m not proud of it at all, that’s why I didn’t brag about it,” Ricdic told Reuters. “But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would’ve chosen the same path based on the same situation.”
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Via BBC