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1 Billion Worth of In-Game Assets Stolen From Albion Online Guild by Player

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  • MagikarpsGhostMagikarpsGhost Member RarePosts: 689


    Sounds to me like someone played the game harder. Suck it up, buttercups.



    Actually if you look in to it the reason he did this was because HE took an expensive mount in to pvp and list it. Had a melt down and took it out on the guild funds. But the guild received way more in donations then it lost. So all in all the guild is better off due to it and that player is on a black list with most guilds and groups now.

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  • AsheramAsheram Member EpicPosts: 5,072
    over a certain amount of withdrawal should require at least 2-3 other guild members approval.

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  • Krynt0kKrynt0k Member UncommonPosts: 256
    Wow. I haven't thought about this in a long time. But something similar happened to my guild in darkfall. We were a tight group and had lots of land and wealth and one day the least likely to do it, stole everything from us. I never did recover from that experience and ended up quitting all together not long after........I miss those times.
  • DiscordsOfElyriaDiscordsOfElyria Newbie CommonPosts: 8
    GOT EM
    No, we are in pre-alpha right now. There is no release date for neither beta nor alpha. Given the track record of the studio, they can't help but being over optimistic on release dates... so I think it is the right move not to make their own estimate public.
  • Haki88Haki88 Member UncommonPosts: 233
    Thats why i always say, in mmorpg game there SHOULD be even split between players in guild after your territory/fortress recive taxes and i mean between players in guild who participated in attacking/defending and it should be game feature. This way, guild leader can do whatever he/she wants with it, take everything or give someone else permision to use guild storage.

    But no.... lets keep old way so you can farm, send items to guild storage while guild leader is not doing any farm tasks for guild.
  • RawizRawiz Member UncommonPosts: 584
    edited September 2020
    This is an example of stupid guild management as well as overall shit game design.
  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534
    edited September 2020


    Reminds me of Archage or Global Agenda days.



    reminds me of early neocron beta, appartement raids actually were a legit thing back then... if you were not THAT much of a legit and nice clan ofc ;)

    uh and incase you want a legit answer, that is why you don't have random clan member access the clanbank, no matter the game
    no fail in game design, more a fail in playing behaviour, stupid hopper mentality

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  • TweFojuTweFoju Member UncommonPosts: 1,236
    Rhoklaw said:
    Oh look, Albion Online is trying to be like Eve Online with made up monetary equivalencies. The game launched in July of 2017 and you mean to tell me someone acquired 1 billion in assets? Bwuahahah.
    People in Albion is so rich, they can actually afford premiums that will last them longer than the game would.

    So What Now?

  • AstropuyoAstropuyo Member RarePosts: 2,178
    We used to burn down entire corps in eve...for actual damages..


    Dude steals 1 to 2k and getting news.


    What a time we live in.


    My old group in entropia got ganked pretty hard once. I think the actual real life damage was a ballpark of t 30 grand or so.

    Then again one day I logged out with a 70 dollar sniper rifle and never logged back in lol
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    edited September 2020
    It's one thing to crush the opposition, take their castles and so on. It is quite another to try to destroy guild from within. It only leads to bad faith and players not wanting to be in guilds.

    My advice to guild leaders, act on your suspicions especially when that individual can cause so much damage. A life lesson for some perhaps, just because someone you think is a friend tells you something does not mean you can trust it is true.
  • BrokenSilenceBrokenSilence Member UncommonPosts: 321
    Stealing from a guild that's main focus is helping new players is pretty shit.
  • AalamrAalamr Member UncommonPosts: 98
    Was it really worth it to basicly get black listed from any even half way decent guild in a game that heavily revolves around guild related content as well as put a massive target on your back. Oh well. To each their own I suppose.
  • SpiiderSpiider Member RarePosts: 1,135

    ancn said:

    1 billion worth of what?



    Exactly. In-game gold??? Peanuts!!!

    No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.

  • TweFojuTweFoju Member UncommonPosts: 1,236
    Stealing from a guild that's main focus is helping new players is pretty shit.
    Hate the game, not the player. He did something that was allowed in the game, i would say that guy is pretty awesome..
    CrystallineNMBrainy

    So What Now?

  • CrystallineNMCrystallineNM Member UncommonPosts: 45
    TweFoju said:
    Stealing from a guild that's main focus is helping new players is pretty shit.
    Hate the game, not the player. He did something that was allowed in the game, i would say that guy is pretty awesome..
    I would say that tells us enough about your character as well.
    Brainy
  • sumdumguy1sumdumguy1 Member RarePosts: 1,373
    While I feel for the people who were scammed, this is an all too common occurrence in gaming.  In FF14 when the servers merged, we had a guy in our "newly" formed guild that brought in a ton of stuff to the guild.  I later found out he cleared out his previous guild of all its stuff.  We easily had over a couple of million worth of items probably more.  I would think precautions would be taken in any guild in this day and age.
  • jazz.bejazz.be Member UncommonPosts: 962

    Asm0deus said:

    Worth 1 Billion of what?

    Irl money or just in game gold?

    If it in game gold who give's a crap.... really!



    ingame money = time = real life money :-)
  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    Well if it was Gold, the best store exchange on that is $50 USD for 10,000. So a Billion Gold would be 5,000,000 USD


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  • tearl42tearl42 Member UncommonPosts: 4
    Mmm, This young buck might have a future in Eve Online. LOL!
    strawhat0981
  • Mackaveli44Mackaveli44 Member RarePosts: 717
    Gotta love both PvP games and people! Both that don't mix well!
  • koldmiserkoldmiser Member RarePosts: 353
    I read this and thought, "The company that runs the game isn't worth 1 billion!"
    cheyaneUngood
  • TiamatRoarTiamatRoar Member RarePosts: 1,688
    Krynt0k said:
    Wow. I haven't thought about this in a long time. But something similar happened to my guild in darkfall. We were a tight group and had lots of land and wealth and one day the least likely to do it, stole everything from us. I never did recover from that experience and ended up quitting all together not long after........I miss those times.
    You miss those times, and yet times like that is what caused you to leave Darkfall in the first place, permanently.

    This is why most games don't have systems that allow players to do that sort of thing these days.  No matter how much you might look back at it with nostalgic rose colored glasses, it was the thing that caused you to quit and leave the game in the first place.

    Still, the fact that most games don't do it anymore does leave an open niche for the players that like games that do, such as Eve and Albion (and hopefully won't leave the game when/if such an incident happens to them)
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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,385
    It is all good if the people playing the game enjoy this sort of thing.
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
    edited September 2020
    Yea but he's the only one playing the game so does it really have any value?
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  • AldersAlders Member RarePosts: 2,207
    Brings me back to 2004 where we used to see this stuff all the time.
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