7 biggest dick moves in the history of gaming

[MadBurgerMaker]

The fact that he was giving out loans with interest and repayment plans probably made a lot of gullible people feel safe.

People are retarded with their isk (and in general) in EVE.  Jita local is constantly spammed with "Send me isk and I'll send you double back!!1!  I promise!!1"  type shit, along with the standard "Sell something for 100,000,000 instead of 100,000" trick, among other things.  If that stuff didn't work, they would have stopped by now, I would think.  The EVE Bank thing was just a bigger, more slick version of the former.  "Invest your isk in us, we'll pay out interest."  Let it run for a while, pull in as many retards as you can, then shut it down and buy a Fuck You dread or ten.  Nice.  Only thing I have to complain about is I didn't think of it first. 

Most I've been involved in, aside from the occasional small time scam, was a "hostile takeover" of a small industrial corp.  A few of us joined this corp, took all the shares, voted one of our guys in as CEO in the middle of the night so he could remove roles from all the sleeping directors (and give them to us heh), then stole and blew up everything we could ("Hey you mining?  We've got a mining op going, join our fleet!" *warps everyone to zero, vaporizes "friendly" ship*) before kicking everyone else out.  I just checked:  He's still the CEO. 

Edit:  Interestingly, there used to be way to use the in game contract system for loans, but....uh....you had to give isk for collateral, so it was only good for ships and stuff.

[Monoriu]

Before UO was launched, people formed many different guilds in anticipation.  One that caught my attention was a "Bank of Britannia".  My first reaction was that it was really cool, because I genuinely wanted to run a bank.  But I also realized that there were too many problems.  Someone has to hold the treasury and there is just no way to prevent that person or persons from running away or simply quitting the game...I talked with the founders on how to solve these, but all I got was "things will work out".  So I quickly quit. 

[Josquius]

Before UO was launched, people formed many different guilds in anticipation.  One that caught my attention was a "Bank of Britannia".  My first reaction was that it was really cool, because I genuinely wanted to run a bank.  But I also realized that there were too many problems.  Someone has to hold the treasury and there is just no way to prevent that person or persons from running away or simply quitting the game...I talked with the founders on how to solve these, but all I got was "things will work out".  So I quickly quit. 

A real world contract?

[JonasSalk]

I miss the ultimate freedom of UO. You could be a murderer, a thief, a mage, a shopkeeper, build your own castles, etc.

[Sophie Scholl]

I miss the ultimate freedom of UO. You could be a murderer, a thief, a mage, a shopkeeper, build your own castles, etc.

http://inporylem.com/

[JonasSalk]

Yeah, I played on a few large free servers for a while after the real game. The last time I did that was about three years ago with some RL friends. We had a lot of fun and there were about 400 people on the server, which was nice, since you had people who had real personalities (such as a totally awesome dickbag Robin Hood-type mage PVPer who would fuck with people all the time.)  One time my friends and I were able to sneak into somebody's house and rob him blind. He got so pissed he started posting about us on the server's forums complaining, blah blah blah. It was epic.

[Ideologue]

The EVE Bank thing was pretty amazing though.  I can't believe there were so many people who were willing to just give their money away because he started a corp and called it a bank.  Then again, people still get nailed by recruitment scams, despite the "Joining Goonwaffe" page specifically saying that if you're paying isk to join, you're getting scammed.  In large red letters.

The fact that he was giving out loans with interest and repayment plans probably made a lot of gullible people feel safe.

I still don't fully understand how he wasn't sued.

[Monoriu]

I miss the ultimate freedom of UO. You could be a murderer, a thief, a mage, a shopkeeper, build your own castles, etc.

I ran a pretty profitable shop before I quit.

[grumbler]

I still don't fully understand how he wasn't sued.

Does the game even have a court system (and if it does, isn't it clogged up with tens of thousands of cases of piracy and murder)?

Plus, the guy can escape jurisdiction just by cancelling his account.

[Ideologue]

I still don't fully understand how he wasn't sued.

Does the game even have a court system (and if it does, isn't it clogged up with tens of thousands of cases of piracy and murder)?

Plus, the guy can escape jurisdiction just by cancelling his account.

Ha ha.

[Razgovory]

What the internet needs is a service where you can hire large men to beat the shit out of other users.  In the real world, if you are an asshole, people will respond to you negatively.  They may shun you, or call the police, or simply kick your face in.  Sadly, these options really exist in cyberspace.

[Martinus]

What the internet needs is a service where you can hire large men to beat the shit out of other users.  In the real world, if you are an asshole, people will respond to you negatively.  They may shun you, or call the police, or simply kick your face in.  Sadly, these options really exist in cyberspace.

You can shoot up a camp full of kids if people are mean to you in the internet.

[Razgovory]

What the internet needs is a service where you can hire large men to beat the shit out of other users.  In the real world, if you are an asshole, people will respond to you negatively.  They may shun you, or call the police, or simply kick your face in.  Sadly, these options really exist in cyberspace.

You can shoot up a camp full of kids if people are mean to you in the internet.

See, I don't hate Muslims.  So shooting kids is really more your kind of thing.