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« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2005, 10:55:11 PM »
This one dude not far from me blew his brain's out because  his so called buddy in EQ 1 killed him and took his gold in  a PVP server. Was on the news at the time.

I was a wussy playing on those non PVP servers. hehe.

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« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2005, 12:42:07 AM »
I have over 3K fighter perk points... do you think this can get me to be  popular with chicks? (Like a virtual set of BMW car  keys?)
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« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2005, 12:50:54 AM »
wait wait wait wait just wait-a-minute folks....

There's one question that we're all forgetting to ask:

Was it a nice sword?
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« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2005, 12:57:50 AM »
two lessons from this,
chinese cops are stupid. The 870 proves it has value.
and notice that even totalitarian gun laws didnt save the geek.

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« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2005, 01:06:09 AM »
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One gaming company in the US recently banned close to a 1,000 of these players over a course of 9 months. It was later figured out that this group made close to $500,000 (US) in selling rare loot and credits.

Who are the idiots that actually buy virtual goods with real money ?!

On second thought I know exacly who they are. I recently tried and quit several MMORPGs. I found them to be increadibly repetative and the players had 14 years olds mentality and no life. I wish my computer could run AH so I can come back :(

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« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2005, 01:17:17 AM »
I imagine they sell these on Ebay or something like it?  I used to play a stupid online RPG for which I can't remember right now.  Anyway, people would build accounts one way or another and then they would actually sell them for $100+ on Ebay.  The ones that sell are pathetic, the ones that buy should be shot.
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« Reply #21 on: June 09, 2005, 03:44:27 AM »
What a moron, someone breaks into his house with murder on their mind, and he puts his pants on.
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« Reply #22 on: June 09, 2005, 04:04:46 AM »
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I have over 3K fighter perk points... do you think this can get me to be  popular with chicks? (Like a virtual set of BMW car  keys?)


Send me your password and i  promise you that all catholic chicks from the district will knock on your doors :cool:

We are friends... right ? ... so you probably know that im not kidding :D

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« Reply #23 on: June 09, 2005, 06:47:43 AM »
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Who are the idiots that actually buy virtual goods with real money ?!

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Hmm there are quite a few people right here that pay $14.95 a month for virtual fighter planes.:p

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« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2005, 08:39:28 AM »
Pretty crazy stuff

Few years back EQ1 account  was  going for US$23K on ebay. There were some boots or swords etc.. going for $700+.

Or  that game that lets u buy/trade virtual real estate among other things. I think its called project entropia..Some guy bought  virutal island for about $20K (it was on CNN few months back).
Apparently he resold lots on that island and generated $120K from sales.

Sony online enternatnment  recently accounced they will allow EQ2 virutal stuff be trade by players for real cash..


Those chinese gaming sweatshops might be more profitable then we think.. :)

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« Reply #25 on: June 09, 2005, 09:04:02 AM »
Hell there are even people making a lot of money selling how-to books about getting rich, both virtually and really, from everquest. There's even a casino in everquest. It's the only game online that will order pizza for you, has an alarm clock that you can set, and an mp3 player so that you don't have to run another app. as your playing. A game built around the psychology of progress bars and chatrooms became a video game hyperpower.

EQ took videogaming to strange new places.

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« Reply #26 on: June 09, 2005, 09:26:18 AM »
Hell I used to play Diablo 2 and it's full of spam in games and in the lobbies about stuff like "www.d2items.com" these people run bots to constantly hunt certiant areas for good items and then they sell em to stupid kids for 50 bucks. Hell I had a friend who ran a bot and hunted items for one of those sites. he was making about 3000 a month doing it. i don't make that much at my job. course he had 2 computers on 2 phone lines running 24/7. He invested like 50 bucks to purchase his characters and gear from the very website that he was selling to. It's weird stuff in this world.

Also another MMORPG named Xenimus. I played it for about 3 years. some people team-built characters. 3 people built this one uber super powerful character. was atleast 10-15 levels above everyone else. one lived in oklahoma, one lived in norway, and one lived in australia. they played the character 24/7 in shifts. then turned around and sold that account with a level 57 cleric (next highest was like 41 or so). and afew level 20's-30's that were expierements for $17,000 to a guy in new york. be damned they let the guy play it for about 2 months, then hacked the account back and sold it again for $9,500! Then hacked it back afew months later, brought it up to lvl 61 to put it back above the rest and sold it for another $5,000! so for 4 months total work not counting time they let the buyers play it, they made $31,500. not a bad profit. to boot they made another account and repeted it for i think $27,000 more while the buyers of the first account played that one.

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« Reply #27 on: June 09, 2005, 10:40:29 AM »
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Originally posted by nirvana
I imagine they sell these on Ebay or something like it?  I used to play a stupid online RPG for which I can't remember right now.  Anyway, people would build accounts one way or another and then they would actually sell them for $100+ on Ebay.  The ones that sell are pathetic, the ones that buy should be shot.


Some sell on Ebay but Ebay is pretty good in working with the gaming companies to stop those bids.  The main selling sites are sites like IGE, which only deals in these types of sales.  And since these sites like IGE are off shore companies, we can't touch them for the most part.


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« Reply #28 on: June 09, 2005, 10:47:59 AM »
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Originally posted by Callisto
Pretty crazy stuff

Few years back EQ1 account  was  going for US$23K on ebay. There were some boots or swords etc.. going for $700+.

Or  that game that lets u buy/trade virtual real estate among other things. I think its called project entropia..Some guy bought  virutal island for about $20K (it was on CNN few months back).
Apparently he resold lots on that island and generated $120K from sales.

Sony online enternatnment  recently accounced they will allow EQ2 virutal stuff be trade by players for real cash..


Those chinese gaming sweatshops might be more profitable then we think.. :)



Some dumb bellybutton bought a Jedi on Ebay for $10,000 USD.  I've heard reports of Jedi going for more but that was the highest sale for one that's been confirmed.

The reason why SOE started the trade program with EQ2 was to take some of the money away from the Chinese gaming sweatshops.  And yes, these gaming sweatshops are quite profitable for those that run it.  It's even starting to spread and we're starting to see well organized groups from some of the former Warsaw Pact countries like Romania.

Like Gunslngr said, it would sound hilarious if it wasn't true.


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« Reply #29 on: June 09, 2005, 01:20:40 PM »
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Selling GV perks! $5.00 a point! plz contact at swift@yougotjipped.com



Hey when u advance your pilot to level 876 pimp, and you have level 88 armour plating and cloak of invisibilty installed on your plane, let me know. I'll buy the whole account.:)