Eve Online, one of the biggies in online MMO gaming, has just banned Ricdic (AKA Richard), one of the CEOs of the game’s in-game Ebank from the game.  And not entirely for why one would think.

Yes, it’s true, he embezzled some 200 billion odd Intersteller Kredits from the bank.  But that wasn’t why he was banned.

No, Ricdic was banned for selling the in-game money to other players for real money, in this case about AU$6,300 (he is an Australian tech worker).  It comes to about five grand in US dollars.  But the amount isn’t all that important.  It was the selling of in-game money for real money which breached Eve Online’s terms of service, forcing them to give him the boot.

So why’d he do it?  For fame and profit?  Nope.  Nothing so easy to hate him for.  He did it to cover some of his son’s medical expenses.

Right then.

There are just so many things wrong with this picture that it’s really hard to make heads or tales of this scandal.  Proof once again that the world is rarely black and white, no matter how old your monitor is.

Faithful InsanIT.net readers may have noticed that there haven’t been any new blogs in over a week.  Sorry about that.  I really meant to do better, but I’ve been working a lot of overtime and simple things like email and web comics fell to the wayside.  Blogging went right out.  Sorry.

The good news is I just finished the project and hopefully will not be needing to put in overtime anymore.  And I even have a three day weekend.  I might almost be sane for my 4th of July blog entry. 

The bad news is that I really am quite mentally wiped at the moment, so until I’m back up to speed, blogs may not be quite as interesting as usual.  Sorry.