I'd understand stealing some super terrific two-handed axe or something in a game, for better cleaving of your foes.
Stealing a peace of furniture? That just seems strange to me.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I'm with you Xavier. I couldn't stand playing 2nd Life more than 20 minutes, there's now way I would even bother playing a game about having a hotel room, let alone pay real money to buy furniture for my fake hotel room, let alone go to jail for stealing someone's virtual hotel room furniture.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
quote: The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money.
I'm still trying to figure out who would buy nearly $6000 worth of virtual furniture. Heck, from what I can tell it's not even decent looking 3D furniture. It's just some pixelated artwork that looks like it's 15 years or so out of date.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
<blink> You're critiquing furniture that doesn't even exist?
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
Lisa wins.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I think he's actually wondering what kind of person would spend that much money on "furniture" that doesn't even exist.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
I'm critiquing furniture that doesn't exist [b]and[b] people payed thousands of dollars for.
Anyways, as far as the my comments on the furniture itself go, I would kinda understand if people payed a bit (maybe a few bucks tops) for some decent looking models in a game like second life or something. While anyone paying that kind of money for fake furniture is really crazy too me, it seems even more crazy that the furniture graphics looks so out of date technologically.
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
I think Lisa's comment was at least mostly tongue-in-cheek.
But I could be wrong.
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
This might put things in perspective a bit. The game in question is actually targeted at young children. I did see this on the TV the other night, but not in the 'grown-up' news. It was aired as an item in a kids version of the news. It seems the Habbo Hotel game is even used in schools to teach children how to use a computer and also give them a safe virtual environment to play in. They let some of the victims speak in front of the camera, and in most cases the value of the furniture stolen was about 10 to 20 euro's in all. Though apparently there was one girl who had spent 300 euro on her hotel room. No one person actually spent 4000 euro's. Basically the average price for a couch in the game is about 30 eurocents. Furthermore there is no way to transform the stolen furniture back into valuta, so monetary gain wasn't the motive for the culprit.