MMO Players Take Over Company, Loot $20,000 Worth Of Stuff

, a pair of players recently planned—and successfully pulled off—an enormous heist, netting them control of one ofcorporations, and as a result possession of some in-game items valued at over $20,000. The thing is it wasn’t really a heist at all, since everything the duo did was entirely by the book.

The game has rules, like actual corporations, where anyone with shares can trigger a vote for a new CEO. So they bought some shares, called a vote and waited to see if anyone would notice. After a 72-hour waiting period, instituted by developers CCP to prevent this kind of thing from happening, the “minimally active” board hadn’t responded or seemingly even noticed the election, and so—

its not an actual company.... Corporation in EVE is equivalent ot clan or guild in fantasy MMO click bait.

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MMO Players Take Over Company, Steal $20,000 Worth Of StuffRules are rules, and this heist followed every single one of them LOL Love them! Folks are missing the entertainment value that could be had here It could be easy to track down IRL the folks who do these heists. Just get them and the person they stole $20,000 stuff from into a room alone and just... see what happens.
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