5 replies to this topic

[blacqmath]

http://imgur.com/zffWzb0

[duktayp]

there are now treatment centers specializing in helping people like this

 

also: http://www.smh.com.a...1862440188.html

 

A Shanghai online game player has stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, theChina Daily said.

 

The incident creates a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.

 

Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his "dragon sabre", used in the popular online game (xxxxx), the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told yesterday.

 

(xxxx) features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords.

Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to Zhu who then sold it for 7,200 yuan ($A1,129), the newspaper said.

 

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.

 

"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great

force and killing him," the court was told.

Edited by duktayp, 29 June 2014 - 01:49.

[blacqmath]

We used to sell Gothador characters and items via paypal.  A couple went for over a grand.  I can only imagine what went on in FallenSword. 

[duktayp]

people used to make money selling virtual items and characters on ebay, before intellectual property laws made them stop about 2007(?)

 

 

 http://www.nydailyne...rticle-1.447608

 

Watch out who you kill in the virtual world, it may inspire someone to attack you in the real one.

That's what happened to one Frenchman, who was stabbed and nearly killed by a fellow "Counter-Strike" player, according to London's Telegraph.

Julien Barreaux reportedly spent six months looking for the person who killed his online character in a virtual knife fight, and eventually found the foe living only a few miles away in Cambrai, a town about 2 hours north of Paris.

The 20-year-old, armed with a real-life kitchen knife, went to the man's house and brutally stabbed him in the chest. The victim, identified only as Mikhael, survived the assault after the blade missed his heart by less than an inch.

"Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character," a police officer testified at the trial, the Telegraph reported.

The overzealous video gamer will spend two years behind bars, and receive anger management therapy.

Edited by duktayp, 29 June 2014 - 03:11.

[Krixous]

omg.. o.o did this ... omg that is horrible

[IzzyDead]

Removed by poster... Language

Edited by IzzyDead, 01 July 2014 - 15:05.