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Pointless? They got 1 trillion ISK.

• yllus 15y ago
  In exchange for 8 months of at least moderate effort. Two people couldn't have come up with $21,000 in earnings over 8 months? (The $21,000 figure taken from the comment above me.) And they could have made that money in non-virtual currency that they could have used outside the game. If this was to run an experiment about greed or investor naivety that would be another thing, but that doesn't seem to have been the case here.
  • Fargren 15y ago
    They did it while playing a game. And there's a certain thrill in scamming people, certainly.
  • anigbrowl 15y ago
    You're assuming that their goal is real-world cash. A lot of people play MMORPGs seriously as a hobby; 8 months of graft in return for (almost) total in-game economic freedom is a great payoff.