A fine example of how to play online games • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

FiniBOOM 1 Mar 2005 17:08:17 40 posts
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A bit long, but a fabulous story anyway

Edited by FiniBOOM at 17:08:47 01-03-2005

Deleted user 1 March 2005 17:53:13

*phew* I kind of skipped to the end during the second half. Very good read which convinced me once again not to bother with online gaming. I liked the last part:

""ENOUGH OF THIS DAMNED GAME!!" I shouted, my booming voice causing a freshly awoken dog to begin howling at the day. I jogged to my computer and started Eve Online. I flew my starter ship out to the closest asteroid field and struck up a conversation with a player named Frosttt.

Me: Hi. What would you say if I were to offer you 300 million isk?

Frosttt: id say it was pretty kool lol

I wired the credits to him and logged off.

I never logged back in again."

KingOfSpain 1 Mar 2005 18:18:45 5,344 posts
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can someone sum this up for me, i really dont have time to read all that, but i like Eve so i want to know.
i know im lazy

Epitaph 1 Mar 2005 18:23:53 860 posts
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It's like an amoral psycho Richard K Morgan character scammed a few Eve players.

Fun reading.

hulahoops 1 Mar 2005 18:26:42 2,311 posts
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From the first few lines I assumed Errol had written it.

Edited by BlankOBlank! at 18:27:22 01-03-2005

WoodenSpoon 1 Mar 2005 18:29:36 12,360 posts
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Someone mind summing up why he gave the money he'd gotten fro the scam to the guy he met at the end?

LaundroMat 1 Mar 2005 18:30:34 1,443 posts
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Bah.

/blows off dust.

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Edited by LaundroMat at 18:31:13 01-03-2005

FiniBOOM 1 Mar 2005 18:31:13 40 posts
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sheer disillusionment with the game...I did the same thing on the German Puzzle Pirates server...

FiniBOOM 1 Mar 2005 18:33:20 40 posts
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LaundroMat wrote:
Bah.

/blows off dust.

D'oh!

I searched and everything....

mal 1 Mar 2005 18:58:53 29,326 posts
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Some guy called Nightfreeze wrote:
With this in mind, I set my alarm for 6:30 AM and woke with a new purpose in my day, to make as much virtual cash as possible.

He scammed the game? Not, perhaps, the other way round? Bizarre.

/understands people who stay up late playing games. Doesn't understand people who get up early to play them.

CyberClaw 1 Mar 2005 18:59:01 2,085 posts
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WoodenSpoon wrote:
Someone mind summing up why he gave the money he'd gotten fro the scam to the guy he met at the end?

Basicly because a MMO game's purpose is to spend your lifetime developing a character, and it's wealth.
His character was "level 1" after deleting the old one, and all that money wasn't good for anything in the next months.
Basicly, he experienced what I call mourning after character death. You know when you are hooked on a game, playing it non stop, and somehow you loose your savegame, or you loose your character in a RPG? Most people usually just put the game asside, unwilling to retrace their steps.

I think that was the biggest reason he quited the game.

Deleted user 1 March 2005 19:01:50

Frosttt was a pirate on EVE ONLINE that basically stole people's money. After he was found out, he never came back. Actually, there was a story about it in a recent edition of EDGE.