Biggest EVE Online scam ever recorded nets over a trillion ISK

Wonder if North Korea will be +$50K from this then?

Proving once again my fondest axiom: the real excitement in Eve Online takes place on their forums.

EvE has to be the only game out there where occasionally reading news about it is a trillion times more entertaining than playing it

My favorite part of these so called "sandbox" games is that the only real flexibility that they seem to consistently give you is the ability to rob each other without consequence. If you did this sort of thing in the "sandbox" of real life, a bunch of guys in uniforms would come and rip you out of your home and give you a cell where you could shit right next to where you sleep for some number of years. In EVE, now that all these people have been ripped off, they can't do anything at all of meaningful retribution. The perpetrators can sit in a station in secure space and spend the money/cash it out to people for real cash/delete their accounts and destroy the money for good/buy lots of expensive ships to impress the ladies and that's it, any "meta" involved is over.

I guess what confuses me is how people think developing a system that protects griefing instead of tries to stop it actually makes the game more fun/"real". Does being able to commit white collar crime without even the barest pretense of consequences of any import actually add any sort of tension to playing the game? Is that actually what "hardcore" means?

I can't help but think that if you really had a hardcore sandbox experience, you would be able to put on your jack boots, stomp into whatever space station these guys were hiding in, pull them out of bed, and murder them, which in turn should cause them to lose all skill points and implants. Anything else just seems like making the game open enough to allow for a bunch of cowardly griefing.

Looks like these guys can now buy a monocle!

Yeaaaah, kinda thought when I saw them advertising that scheme "What moron would fall for that?" ...but, like I learned in sales, "there's no one easier to make money off of than someone fixated on trying to make money." They fall for everything, every time.

Honestly, I'm bored with reading about Eve scams. Have CONDORD arrest the douche, and put him on trial, complete with some Eve lawyers, and put him in jail if he can't defend himself. If this game is so "realistic," then let's see some realistic, Bernie-Maddoff/KenLay style perp-walks. THAT would entertain me; this is just "fleecing the newbs," and making us all more paranoid than we are already, if that's even possible.

Another example of CCP devs letting trash ruin an otherwise decent game. Real life fraud to do this, no ingame mechanics to prevent it. One sided exploit. But then its just matter of time before these folks mouth off like the irish chap did and then they will most likely get a taste of real life retribution too. Eve is indeed great drama.

I think people fall to crime in EvE because they are actually trying to play it without getting bored. If you never risked anything and just played by the rules the game would be too boring to play, end of the story.

Everything takes too long and very tedious, this is why taking stupid shortcuts gets players to fall for scams like that.

I think i finally figured this out. EVE is so meta, CCP could literally remove everything from the game, make it a text-based MMO (like in the 90s) and most of the players would still be playing it the same way. Wish there was a way to enjoy an experience like EVE for what it is, rather than the meta game. Of course, waiting days on end for your skills to train, and desperately trying to do something not boring ingame does guide one to the path of the meta game.