Gaming Billions Stollen in Online Robbery

[Kveldulf]

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As much as I love EVE-Online, am I the only one who finds it a little sad (or amusing) that its being reported by the BBC?

Glad I never invested in this bank.

 

[Ark]

Gah, I knew they shouldn't have given Bernie Madoff a cell with internet access...

 

[Unstung]

At least not much real money was taken, approximately 4,000 USD.

 

[Kaito]

Wow...amazing how many scandals go on in that game..
Thats what I love about it

 

[Nerull]

No real money was 'taken' - in game money was sold for real money, since people will pay for it. That's the only rule he broke, and part of the way the game economy works. If you can pull something like this off, and not get hunted down by bounty hunters or caught by the factions you've pissed off - nice job.

It's the same way it would happen in reality - there is no universal law that prevents you from stealing things, it's up to the people in the game to do something about it. When you sell currency for money - essentially taking the cash 'out' of the game world, you 'break' it, though. The economy is no longer purely in game, and that's why it's against the rules.

 

[Ghostrider]

It's not the first time sometimes like this happens. There has been virtual property theft in another game whose name I can't remember, and bomb attacks in Second Life, not to mention valuable items theft inWoW.
No surprise, any metaworld with enough humans in it will inevitably become a mirror of RL...

 

[simonpro]

So..why is this newsworthy?
Looks to me like the BBC has just fallen another step down the slope to becoming a trashy tabloid style news provider rather than the serious and informative provider that it once was.

 

[Ghostrider]

Looks to me like the BBC has just fallen another step down the slope to becoming a trashy tabloid style news provider rather than the serious and informative provider that it once was.

Serious information providing died the day TV became fully commercialized. News todays are classified as "entertainment", just like everything else.

 

[Notebook]

Serious information providing died the day TV became fully commercialized. News todays are classified as "entertainment", just like everything else.

What day would that be? The start of Sky Broadcasting, or the start of ITV? I ask, because ITN had a good reputation for news reporting, and some ITV companies did do news/current affairs programs, World in Action, and some others I can't remember...
I do agree that 'news' reporting on tv generally in the UK has become infantile, with the exception of CH4 News, and maybe Newsnight; though that sometimes degenerates into a shouting match.

N.

 

[Pilot7893]

How long now until a suicide bombing in FSX multiplayer, I wonder?

 

[Artlav]

I wonder, what "good" news program should look like?

 

[simonpro]

What day would that be?

Well it didn't start in the UK. It started with the American news networks and was slowly taken up elsewhere. Generally I'd hoped that the public broadcasters (BBC, SVT etc) wouldn't follow the same route, seeing as how they're not commercially funded, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

 

[Hielor]

How long now until a suicide bombing in FSX multiplayer, I wonder?

Considering that there are no weapons, a proper "bombing" is impossible. There are, however, already plenty of kids who fly around in multiplayer trying to hit people.

 

[Ghostrider]

How long now until a suicide bombing in FSX multiplayer, I wonder?

Happened all the time in Tribes 2: kamikaze runs on the Shrike fighter were common.

 

[Pilot7893]

Considering that there are no weapons, a proper "bombing" is impossible. There are, however, already plenty of kids who fly around in multiplayer trying to hit people.

The very reason the O-F server is pretty much the only one I fly on. FSX Multiplayer is worse then Xbox Live at times.

 

[RangerPL]

The very reason the O-F server is pretty much the only one I fly on. FSX Multiplayer is worse then Xbox Live at times.

Good way to practice evasive maneuvers though
I have to get FSX....

 

[Notebook]

Well it didn't start in the UK. It started with the American news networks and was slowly taken up elsewhere. Generally I'd hoped that the public broadcasters (BBC, SVT etc) wouldn't follow the same route, seeing as how they're not commercially funded, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

The irony is not lost, the BBC were once the best of any broadcasting company, to Entertain, Inform, and Educate. In no particular order. They had a guarnteed income from the licence fee.
They where a reference that other broadcasters could compete against, What they are doing now just beggars belief. I have a slight vested interest, as I used to work for an old ITV company.
Why they competed against commercial television beats me.

N.

 

[Hielor]

The very reason the O-F server is pretty much the only one I fly on. FSX Multiplayer is worse then Xbox Live at times.

Not that you're ever on the O-F server anyway

The trick is to not just try random gamespy servers; odds are they'll be terrible. I've found IFlyOnline to be a very nice group ( www.iflyonline.com ), and they often have tower controllers on. It's a lot less casual than we are (ie, they'll get annoyed if you buzz the tower at 600kts), but it's also a lot more casual than VATSIM so a great chance for flying with a controller.

 

[RangerPL]

Xbox live is a jungle. I accidentally killed a friendly on CoD 4 and he tried to hunt me down to kill me back.

 

[Ghostrider]

I accidentally killed a friendly on CoD 4 and he tried to hunt me down to kill me back.

Well, just like in real life.