$9,000.00 space ship???!!!

[John Connor]

Are you kidding me! There are starving people in Africa and they spend money on this crap?!

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugge...p-worth-9-000-destroyed-ambush-190533986.html

 

[jaedaliu]

doesn't say if he spent $9k on it. just the in game value is equivalent to $9k.

Guess he could have donated a virtual spaceship to starving kids in Africa instead of getting it blown up?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Funny how people always refer to starving children as being located in Africa. There are children in AMERICA who are starving.

 

[John Connor]

How the fuck do you starve in America with food stamps and welfare and food banks??? There are plenty of programs. It's not North Korea!

 

[SaurusX]

Funny how people always refer to starving children as being located in Africa. There are children in AMERICA who are starving.

No one in America is starving. You may find some idiots who trade their food stamps for crack and force their kids to go without a few meals, but no one is starving.

 

[PottedMeat]

One player of the long-running online game EVE Online experienced that horror Sunday, when an ambush destroyed his supercarrier valued at a whopping $9,000.

zero fucks given

 

[NikolaeVarius]

They don't spend money on it, though you can.

Its all bought with in game money. The in game money has a real life conversion value of about 20 dollars per 500 million isk give or take.

This is why scams and shit happen in the game, people can come out with hundreds of dollars with some work. And its all perfectly legal.

Gotta love stealing thats legal.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

people spend much, much more than that on recreation. where is the outrage over vacations in hawaii or weekend benders at casinos?

 

[IronWing]

When people in Africa learn to build $9000 spaceships they may also discover that they are no longer starving.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I think it's brilliant that companies can do "in game products" and I think people are fucking stupid for ever even playing such games.

Pretty much killed it for me with BF3 with all the DLC crap....screw all that.

Purchase of a game is slowly becoming equivalent to a free demo from 10 years back.......once you buy it, they got you by the balls. And if you choose to not purchase DLC, you will be stuck playing on one empty server hehe

More power to companies.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I think it's brilliant that companies can do "in game products" and I think people are fucking stupid for ever even playing such games.

Pretty much killed it for me with BF3 with all the DLC crap....screw all that.

Purchase of a game is slowly becoming equivalent to a free demo from 10 years back.......once you buy it, they got you by the balls. And if you choose to not purchase DLC, you will be stuck playing on one empty server hehe

More power to companies.

But you don't buy it with real money.... its all in game currency that you get in game through the market.

Eve has NO microtransactions, there was actually a player run riot some time ago when details leaked that Eve was planning microtransactions.

 

[Kenazo]

Follow up question - why is there a news source that covers events that happen in Eve?

 

[jaedaliu]

Follow up question - why is there a news source that covers events that happen in Eve?

follow to the followup - why does it seem like all the half-interesting articles on www.yahoo.com's main story slider show up in ATOT as a topic?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

EVE Online?

*click*

EVE Online.

Fuckers.

 

[nehalem256]

No one in America is starving. You may find some idiots who trade their food stamps for crack and force their kids to go without a few meals, but no one is starving.

In fact I think America's poor have a bigger problem with obesity than starving.

 

[alkemyst]

How the fuck do you starve in America with food stamps and welfare and food banks??? There are plenty of programs. It's not North Korea!

You have to have an address and also be located nearby these things usually to make them practical.

However; usually those that bring up foreign nations aren't donating much to begin with.

 

[John Connor]

I'm poor and weigh 333 pounds. Prof! LOL!

In fact I think America's poor have a bigger problem with obesity than starving.

 

[Vdubchaos]

But you don't buy it with real money.... its all in game currency that you get in game through the market.

Eve has NO microtransactions, there was actually a player run riot some time ago when details leaked that Eve was planning microtransactions.

My time is worth more than acquiring money in game.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

In fact I think America's poor have a bigger problem with obesity than starving.

Of course, part of the reason for that is food insecurity. If you don't know where your next meal is coming from, when somebody hands you $3, you buy the biggest bag of potato chips you can, and you eat it NOW, before somebody else finds out you have it.

Candy bars are way easier to shoplift than whole wheat bread and organic spinach.

If you're dumpster diving: sell by dates on produce are usually... optimistic. I've had dairy go bad before the timestamp too. But if you find pie or cookies past their sell-by date, they're probably fine.

Getting regular exercise is more difficult for poor people too. (Gym memberships? Biking in crappy neighborhoods where your bike gets stolen? Whenever-your-sadistic-boss-wants-you-to-work work schedule plus single-parent commitments...)

 

[Jaskalas]

Are you kidding me! There are starving people in Africa and they spend money on this crap?!

Money does not fix Africa.

 

[AstroManLuca]

follow to the followup - why does it seem like all the half-interesting articles on www.yahoo.com's main story slider show up in ATOT as a topic?

Nearly every post started by one particular member here is pulled straight from the Daily Mail. Good way to troll.

 

[IGemini]

Value was based on ISK -> PLEX. OP must be having a slow rage day.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Further in the article it links to a virtual space station that sold for $350k!

 

[T_Yamamoto]

No one in America is starving. You may find some idiots who trade their food stamps for crack and force their kids to go without a few meals, but no one is starving.

Okay, maybe not starving, but hungry

link

 

[Fritzo]