Game Police
 

From Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird (.819)

www.newsoftheweird.com

WEEK OF OCTOBER 19, 2003

LEAD STORY

According to a September BBC report, police in South Korea are investigating some of the 22,000 complaints made already this year by computer gamers that characters and property that they have acquired in such all-consuming games as "EverQuest" and "Ultima Online" have been stolen by hackers and sold to other gamers to make their own playing more successful. Experts say such theft of "intangibles" should be punishable by law, but the value of the stolen property might be inconsequential, except to those players whose entire lives revolve around a game and for whom the acquisition of a character or property might have involved hundreds of hours of playing. [BBC News, 9-29-03]

That's just retarded :-d, prolly 12 year old kids complaining too

Yeah... People take this seriously... I mean it's stupid to hack someone else's account...

and its pathetic to cry over a lost one

It's also pathetic to spend the time to steal one.

Weeded and moved to announcements.

Somewhat interasting this is -- but dont worrie, ole' tacos not worried at all. I may move my operation over to Everquest soon... accounts are worth more... heh.

EDIT: Nothing to see here.

Well I know penguin has already started on Ultima Online accounts...

Game accounts to hack/scam:

Runescape
Ultima Online
Everquest
Ragnarok Online

I will post more once I see game accounts that go for quite a bit on eBay.

Who would want to buy anything for any computer game. Honestly, If I buy something, that isn't real, what the fuck kind of person does that make me.

I think it does these people some good to lose their accounts, maybe they can play an instrument, get a job, quit sitting on their asses playing on the 'puter.