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

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MMO players take over company, steal $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 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—

 

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mercanaree

Gotta love EVE.

You know I actually thought they did a real crime, but it was just..a crime inside the game. Now I think about it, this is just RL when some crummy guy buy a company and then gut it for all its worth.

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.

Love them!

LOL

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