Online gamer killed for selling cyber sword.

[IRON CHEF]

I've had my share of frustrations over video games, but I've never taken it to this level. I knew that gamers were pretty hardcore in Asia, but to lead to death???

[Superman in Training]

When i first read this topic i thought it was a joke or something fake.. not a real killing!

That is totally insane! Man I get mad when I drive sometimes, but that is seriously totally freaking insane!

[Kensat30]

I used to play Diablo II online, and there was a huge eBay market for those items. Don't know if anyone here played, but I remember playing with people who said they had just bought their Stone of Jordan. Of course, I ask how much in-game gold did it cost them? Sadly, they answered in dollars...that's when I knew some people were too obsessed.

Yup, I played Diablo II online also. When I quit I was giving some of my items away when my friend told me how valuable it was on Ebay. So I start selling items and I made a couple hundred bucks. Then I get back into the game simply to make money and I ended up walking away from that game with like 2,000.00. Considering I spent probably over a thousand hours playing the game.... hey I still got paid a buck an hour to play video games

[deluxe_247]

I used to play Diablo II online, and there was a huge eBay market for those items. Don't know if anyone here played, but I remember playing with people who said they had just bought their Stone of Jordan. Of course, I ask how much in-game gold did it cost them? Sadly, they answered in dollars...that's when I knew some people were too obsessed.

Yup, I played Diablo II online also. When I quit I was giving some of my items away when my friend told me how valuable it was on Ebay. So I start selling items and I made a couple hundred bucks. Then I get back into the game simply to make money and I ended up walking away from that game with like 2,000.00. Considering I spent probably over a thousand hours playing the game.... hey I still got paid a buck an hour to play video games

thats insane. i never even knew that people were earning and selling items won in video games how did i miss that

[awwchrist]

not only items, but in-game currency.

http://www.ige.com

This site alone offers fifteen massively multiplayer online game currencies to be purchased.

So do the math:

15 unique games X approximately 15 - 30 different servers per/game. That's how many unique worlds they're offering to sell currency to.

It's a HUGE market.

And IGE isn't the only "company" that does this. There's definite competition in each game.

These company employees that rake in all the gold/platinum to sell online are generally referred as "farmers".

They'll sit in an area and repeatedly kill the same creatures if they know that they'll get nice items/currency to sell.

It's a definite pain in the ass to players. And it's something that Game publishers and mangers are constantly at war with.