Biggest battle in EVE Online's history leads to an estimated $500,000

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A skirmish over an unpaid bill in CCP Games' spacefaring MMORPG EVE Online escalated to a battle of epic proportions on Monday, costing its participants an estimated $500,000 in real-world cash so far, according to a USA Today report.

When a missed payment left a contested area of space unprotected, the biggest battle in EVE Online's ten-year history erupted, involving more than 4,000 players. The fight saw the destruction of over 100 prized Titan vessels, which take months of gameplay to build and are worth around $3,000 each.

A series of animated .gifs capture the carnage as it unfolded, documenting hundreds of destroyed ships and untold losses for players caught up in the action.

Posted: Jan 29, 2014 5:36 pm
Related Forum: PC Gaming Forum

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/29/biggest-battle-in-eve-onlines-history-leads-to-an-estimated-50/

Comments

-SignedPosted: Thu. Jan 30, 2014

Haha. I think this is a proper moment to say "shit got real."

EthicsPosted: Thu. Jan 30, 2014

it sucks that thet lost so much money but looks like one hell of a fun battle haha

GT-RPosted: Thu. Jan 30, 2014

Things like this are the reason I dislike playing these types of games.

MattRyanPosted: Thu. Jan 30, 2014

Remember watching some of the live stream of this, it was pretty crazy.

grunt987654Posted: Wed. Jan 29, 2014

Can someone explain to me how this cost actual money? Never played so I don't understand.

-CPPosted: Wed. Jan 29, 2014

Jesus Christ, that is just ridiculous!

MaggardoPosted: Wed. Jan 29, 2014

That's an insane amount of money...

-DeanoPosted: Wed. Jan 29, 2014

I saw the original post about this whilst browsing reddit earlier. It's absurd to think so much money has just been blown to smithereens.

It makes you laugh to see that all this money-blowing happened because one payment was missed.

TRSNPosted: Wed. Jan 29, 2014

I was hearing about this from one of my teachers like five minutes ago. Insane.