The EVE Online universe is comprised of all the elements you would expect: outer orbit pirates, spaceship battles with lasers and photons, and anything else that might appear in a circa 1990s film starring Harrison Ford.
What you might not expect is that the denizens of dark, those griefers looking to ruin another players good time or fortune who exist in all MMO games, are far too common in EVE Online and sometimes it is even encouraged!
Who knows if the atmosphere that the GMs or others in charge created in this game was part and partial to the cause or not, but one player recently has been seen to have bilked their fellow gamers out of over $45,000 in real life currency (ISK translated into real money)
The scam, not too unfamiliar, was to make copies of a highly coveted and secret set of blueprints for the MMOs largest Battle Cruiser, and sell them as a limited-run. This guy even went so far as to try and get investors to penny-up more dough for this corporation inside the game - that was later dumped in the end for 850 Billion ISK (in game currency).
You guessed it, real life value: $45 grand! Not bad for a year and a half of gaming work :)
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