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1 Billion Worth of In-Game Assets Stolen From Albion Online Guild by Player
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1 Billion Worth of In-Game Assets Stolen From Albion Online Guild by Player
In some seriously epic Albion Online drama, it looks like a guild had over 1 billion worth of in-game assets stolen from them by a single player.
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Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
It cannot be decided with this one action. That being said he is aware of the damage caused and will be caused.
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Exactly. "a billion" is a useless description.
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I would lean toward some seriously good roleplay. As you can read he actually messaged them to remove his discord permissions because he had no interest in hurting them outside of the game it would appear. Since all he did to them was steal from them in game like he was hired in game to do, I see it as some proper espionage. Had he blown up their discord and/or sit or forums I could see that being just a real life asshole. He just stole from them in game after gaining their trust. I'd say thats a pretty good roleplay job.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Game money I would assume.
As it turns out... Googling Albion Online Silver brings up a "gold seller" site that shows one billion silver is about a thousand bucks.
Big deal.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
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We do for the entertainment value and hilarity of it all.
In either case, this is exactly why I don't play games like EvE and Albion.
For those of you that do.. Kudos and Enjoy!
On the fence, infiltration of a guild is cool rp of political gaming and spying. However, when the human over discord is pretending to be a genuine friend and helping other humans play... sharing personal stories... they are out of character. I think this really poor gamesmanship and not roleplay whatsoever.
If the person/character got permission without being on discord, I think it would be more cut and dry fine.
”In Dante's imagined descent through hell, he reserved the Ninth Circle—the “lowest, blackest, and farthest from Heaven”—for the sin of treachery. The worst sinners, in his underworld, were the traitors—those who betrayed their loved ones, their country, and their God”
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Be it a leader or officer. If the game has a bank where 1 person could withdraw everything you should NOT use it except for money directly needed for officers to run events with. Holdings should be distributed as evenly as possible among Sr.Officers.
The little annoyance of needing people online is more then worth it then risking that.
Even people you think you trust could 1 day screw you over.
Spliting it between the masses means at most you lose a percentage.
In FFXI my guild was stolen from twice. Once by the original founder who took everything,. bailed, and joined the "Big guild" when they bought enough gear to get into it. 2nd time was long after I became lead one of my officers stold their portion of the bank and rmted it on their way out.
We lost 21mill, but the bank was over 130mill. So splitting it saved over 80% of the bank.
Person who stold is more or less the lowest form of scum. And I would assume anyone who would do that and betray those whose see him as a friend is more or less scum in rl as well.