{"id":6312,"date":"2009-07-03T17:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T00:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6312"},"modified":"2013-05-28T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T03:55:13","slug":"another-eve-online-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/another-eve-online-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Another EVE Online Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8773\" alt=\"eve_online_logo-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/eve_online_logo-S.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"170\" \/>JULY 3, 2009 \u2022 EVE Online suffered another scandal when 200 billion kredits were stolen from a player run financial institution, and later sold for $5,104. The heist was carried out by the bank&#8217;s chief executive, a 27 year-old Australian who needed the real-world money for a down payment on a house. Although stealing roughly 8% of the bank&#8217;s deposits was not against developer CCP&#8217;s end user agreement if the cash has been used in-game, selling it online for actual currency is, and the player has been expelled from the game.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: This circumstance is another reason why EVE Online operates in an anomalous fashion compared to other MMOs. Outright in-game theft would not be tolerated by mainstream consumers, yet the niche EVE Online user base accepts their MMO is an anything-goes experience with some grumbling. The question is whether these players have a threshold for these kinds of shenanigans if they continue to occur.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 3, 2009 \u2022 EVE Online suffered another scandal when 200 billion kredits were stolen from a player run financial institution, and later sold for $5,104. The heist was carried out by the bank&#8217;s chief executive, a 27 year-old Australian who needed the real-world money for a down payment on a house. Although stealing roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}