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$9,000 Video Game Ship Destroyed


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That game is serious business for people who play it. I know a guy who supposedly has 20k worth of shit in it...

 

Whatever makes you happy, just caught me off guard. People think I am bat shit crazy because I spend money on cars and racing.

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Whatever makes you happy, just caught me off guard. People think I am bat shit crazy because I spend money on cars and racing.

 

To be clear, he didn't drop $9k to buy that ship. He more than likely bought it with in-game money he earned by playing. Or he won it in a tourney. I don't remember that supercap from when I was playing, and the article said there were only 3. So it could have been a giveaway from the devs as a prize. Or built from the new resources/blueprints they've been adding to the game. In which case, it was built entirely from in-game time.

 

That's not to say he doesn't have a pair of $4.5K gaming rigs....

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I read an article about this but it read nothing like that, the owner of the USS 9K Turd typed in the wrong shit and wound up in the wrong place.

 

That was another battle. I think the converted value of the battle that triggered was something like $120K.

 

The gaming media loves to report on huge EVE losses because the in-game value is easily found and can be converted directly to real-world currency. Additionally, unlike most other games of this scale, when something in EVE blows up, it's gone for good.

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As a non-gamer, this story has opened up my eyes...

 

I shouldn't be surprised that real money is being "invested, won, or lost" in online gaming. Short of cheat-codes or God-codes, if the physics in a game are definable and unalterable, I see a lot more games using bit-coin or whatever currency to make the play seem more real to the players.

 

Intadesting article. Thanks for posting it!

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Really, the Eve players are way worse than the players wasting their life playing WoW. To be successful in Eve takes knowledge and skills that can be applied to the real world. All the virtual trading and investing could make them a fortune in real life markets. I'm sure some do.
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I worked with a finance comapny about 8 years ago, who's owner use to build up characters in online games. He would then sell them on craigs list. He made $60,000 doing this one year. However, he sucked as a person and his finance company went under becasue he was never taking care of business.

 

Funny note: saw him last week at the casino in the High Limit room playing one on one Black Jack with the dealer.

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That was another battle. I think the converted value of the battle that triggered was something like $120K.

 

The gaming media loves to report on huge EVE losses because the in-game value is easily found and can be converted directly to real-world currency. Additionally, unlike most other games of this scale, when something in EVE blows up, it's gone for good.

 

I thought it was more like $18k. Either way it's pretty insane. Dude hit one wrong button and cost he and his company or whatever they're called thousands.

 

Edit: found a link to that one... http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/29/one-accidental-jump-later-one-of-eves-biggest-battles/

 

400-700 billion ISK. 700 billion ISK = about $25k.

 

Guy hits one wrong button and 3,000 people almost instantly jump into battle. Amazing.

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Guy hits one wrong button and 3,000 people almost instantly jump into battle. Amazing.

 

Heheh... Asakai. *THAT* was an accident; the titan pilot attempted to create a bridge (artificial wormhole) for his support fleet to get into that system and cut down on travel time, but clicked jump by mistake, leaving himself high, dry, and utterly alone+defenseless.

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I played a browser based game couple years ago. One of the guys in my group had spent close to 40k dollars on the game. He had his account setup to buy 1k dollars in coins auto deducted from his account every month. He was a lawyer from New York.
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I played eve for years, shits way to real. So much so that losing something like a battleship literally takes weeks to financially recover from and I was in a rich corp. Most guys just sit around making more money. I gave up and got hardcore into the real stock market like mentioned above. Much better use of my time.
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