MMO gamers are taking over the company, stealing $20,000 worth of the stuff

eve online It is, for some, the video game they play. For the rest of us, it’s a crime, An MMO we only read about when someone does something outrageousToday’s game coverage is another shining example in this genre.

like computer games a reporta pair of gamers recently planned—and succeeded—a massive heist, leaving them in control of one of their own Eve corporations, and as a result the possession of certain in-game items over $20,000 in value. The thing is, it wasn’t really a heist at all, because everything the duo did was entirely by the book,

the operation-In detail in this post on Reddit By a thief, Flam_Hill – started when players teamed up with the ultimate goal of taking down a corporation, and in their search they discovered that one of them (Event Horizon Expeditionaires) had a board of directors consisting of a CEO and directors who were “minimally active”.

The game has rules, like actual companies, where anyone with shares can cast 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, put in place by the CCP developers to prevent this sort of thing from happening, the “minimally active” board didn’t respond or seem to notice the election, and so on –like Ars point outin scenes similar to Simpsons The episode where Bart loses his class election – After only two votes have been cast, Flam_Hill and his partner win control of the entire company.

They had no intention of running it, of course, just stealing it for whatever they could, and at the end of the process they plundered 130 billion in the game’s in-game currency ISK, and took assets worth 2 more trillion. This adds up, Flam_Hill estimates, to about $22,309 in actual US dollars, although it’s hard to pin down an exact number since there’s no official way to convert ISK into US dollars (however, there are some gray market solutions).

A Heist Pulled Through… Reading the Company Rules may not seem like the most exciting thing in a game like this, but as this shows, why go to all the trouble of going to war and risking everything when you can. Take advantage of the fact that a group of guys haven’t checked their emails for three days.