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This happened in Eve Online. Some guy acted as a defacto bank, built trust over several years, then blew all the credits on a flagship. Held legally accountabl

• fixermark 9y ago
  That'd have been a hilarious court case though. "But your honor, ISK is part of the EVE Online game, and it's in the nature of the game to build up a bunch of in-game assets and then get screwed out of them by other players. Players find this fun and continue to come back to it. "Exhibit A is the relevant value-lost-per-day in dumb territory disputes and ultimately meaningless fun-fights. As our expert witness, we're calling a psychologist who can explain the sort of masochism that factors into a person's enjoyment of this experience..." ;)