people man.
this is what he bought:
"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."
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged...190533986.html
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07-10-2013, 10:12 PM #1Registered User
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man saves $9000 to buy videogame spaceship...gets destroyed soon after rofl(serious)
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07-10-2013, 10:15 PM #2Og of retards
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lol thats ****ing bruuuuutal
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07-10-2013, 10:15 PM #3Registered User
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I imagine it went down something like...
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07-10-2013, 10:15 PM #4Registered User
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i remember a bunch of those nerds signed up to work for some company and stayed there for like months or a year and then turned on the company and murdered people and destroyed it
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07-10-2013, 10:17 PM #5Registered User
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/pwned
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07-10-2013, 10:17 PM #6
reminds me of when i would get bs'ed in the wildy
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07-10-2013, 10:18 PM #7My Couch Pulls Out I Dont
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Dude couldn't Alt + F4 quick enough or what??
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07-10-2013, 10:18 PM #8Registered User
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wow
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07-10-2013, 10:20 PM #9
just a bunch of losers, whoever wrote that is the biggest loser ever.
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07-10-2013, 10:20 PM #10Registered User
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rofl
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07-10-2013, 10:22 PM #11McClutchin
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lets start a misc. community on EVE and just troll people
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07-10-2013, 10:23 PM #12Registered User
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Think of all the furniture he could have rented
I respect wood.
The sloots were jocking.
Perfect human misc standards.
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07-10-2013, 10:25 PM #13Registered User
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Strong misleading title OP. I'm pretty sure he didn't spend $9k on the ship. He played till it got that good and it was worth $9k theoretically, but he didn't actually spend that much money.
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07-10-2013, 10:26 PM #14Patel Bateman
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inb4 all miscers lie about how big their ship isOriginally Posted by aStRoRdInArY
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07-10-2013, 10:26 PM #15
He couldnt just disconnect from the internet?
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07-10-2013, 10:26 PM #16Registered User
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trololololol, oh lawd brings me back to the Runescape days. Good memories lmaoOriginally Posted by ChorizoFit
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07-10-2013, 10:27 PM #17Registered Alpha
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$9000 to a few thousand pixels on a screen displaying a space ship..
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07-10-2013, 10:27 PM #18Sci&Tech
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****ing Eve I love hearing stories like this.
Game is crazy as fuk“We pay too much tribute to a few human insects when we let their wrong-doing paralyze our faith in humanity. It is a lie of the cynics that says ‘all men are ungrateful,’ a companion lie to ‘all men have their price.’ We must trust humanity if we would get good from humanity. He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.”
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07-10-2013, 10:28 PM #19McClutchin
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just imagine the misc. being taken over by EVE questionsOriginally Posted by CurryTech777
inb4 "Just captured biggest ship in game wutdo?"**Sicilian/Russian Crew**
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07-10-2013, 10:29 PM #20Registered User
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bye bye e-penor
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07-10-2013, 10:29 PM #21unregistered user
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He didnt spend 9k on it
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07-10-2013, 10:29 PM #22Registered User
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wtf, blueprints? I've never heard of games like this.
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07-10-2013, 10:29 PM #23Registered User
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I actually play this game and i can tell you he almost certainly did not spend 9000 dollars of real life money for it.
The ship is valued with a system known as PLEX. PLEX is game time you can either buy with real money or in-game currency you made through various methods. Each plex costs on average 500 million isk.
In RL money a plex is about £17. So they divide the total cost of the ship by 500m, then apply the £17 (pound, not dollars. work it out.) to each plex the ship was worth.
He's getting alot of chit for it though, but he will go down in the games history as the first guy to lose one of those.Insert motivational quote here
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07-10-2013, 10:30 PM #24Dr since 117BC.
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Fkin lol. Wasn't there a corporation in EVE that got taken over cos some dude became CEO but was actually a spy?
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07-10-2013, 10:30 PM #25Registered User
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and u know this how?Originally Posted by Fozzy13
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07-10-2013, 10:30 PM #26Registered User
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he's probably the guy that bought it.Originally Posted by comore07
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07-10-2013, 10:31 PM #27Registered User
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I always feel bad for that kid. Just trolling and people took his video seriously. Got bullied and all...Originally Posted by leafs43
As for the above, how much did he actually pay then??
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07-10-2013, 10:32 PM #28Registered User
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I read the story, and I don't completely get it, but it said it doesn't actually have any real-world value? They're just paralleling it to real money... so he really just spent a lot of TIME and lost it that quickly... I'm sure he enjoyed it, though... you'd have to to play that much
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07-10-2013, 10:32 PM #29Registered User
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His stupid level, it's over 9000
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07-10-2013, 10:34 PM #30Sci&Tech
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http://www.pcgamesn.com/eve/eve-onli...omms-goes-wild
This article actually has a audio clip of the aftermath“We pay too much tribute to a few human insects when we let their wrong-doing paralyze our faith in humanity. It is a lie of the cynics that says ‘all men are ungrateful,’ a companion lie to ‘all men have their price.’ We must trust humanity if we would get good from humanity. He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.”
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