Yep. Since it doesn't represent any actual physical goods (regardless of its theoretical sale value on MMO currency exchanges), scamming for MMO currency is nothing actively illegal and this particular game is all about the player economy....which includes scams. And armed robbery, for that matter.

yeah, and you Dune freaks are the epitome of normalcy.

At least I don't have an EVE Tattoo...

1) We don't KNOW that it was just Dentara Rast. He's taken responsibility, and the evidence points to him, but as it was multiple characters, saying that multiple in game bankers committed the fraud is perfectly acceptable.

2) Game Time Cards are a legitimate way of converting isk to cash, and even at a significant discount, would net the perps over 70k if the market would support it.

Go back to 1.0 mining, leave the analysis to those better suited.

Well, if you think about if from a microeconomic standpoint, it makes some sense. In Game Currency requires time to generate, but rarely less time time the equivalent amount of Out Of Game Currency requires. If I want to generate 200,000,000 isk in Eve, it would require say, 20 hours of gametime. Yet it only takes me 20 minutes of billable hours out of game to buy the same amount of In Game Currency.
So, if what I want to do in game requires 200,000,000 units of in game currency, it makes considerably more sense to spend 20 minutes out of game to generate that money than it does to spend 20 hours in game.

Don't disrespect THE Wil Wheaton, man. He was flying spaceships since before you were born.

um, Scopitone wrote the article. still, he's pretty damn cool too.

Dammit, I suck.

LOL

No offense, and I'm not really familiar with the world of Computer D&D, but doesn't the author of the piece work for one of EVE's competitors?

and, yes.

If i wasnt wierd, Id be boring.
plus Id lose my +1 insanity rating.

its is said that "truth is often stranger than fiction"

in this case it's funnier too.

i heard it was nearer 916 billion isks. which is still a crapload of real money. well done that man. people stupid enough to give it away in a game may learn to not give it away so easily for real

True. I am not the Wil Wheatons. Though I have worked with that short haired blonde woman that was on Trek Next Generation when it first came out.

OK, by "worked with" I meant wanked to when I saw her on Red Shoe Diaries as a teen. Point being; can you fucking believe David Duchovny hosted that show?!