Cyber sword leads to real death

[Texsox]

msnbc link

 

BEIJING - A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily said on Wednesday, creating 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, "Legend of Mir 3", the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told on Tuesday.

 

"Legend of Mir 3" 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 (US$870), the newspaper said.

 

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

 

More at the link.

 

Remember a while back someone in Australia bought a virtual island in a RPG.

[mreye]

msnbc link

More at the link.

 

Remember a while back someone in Australia bought a virtual  island in a RPG.

Geeks!

[T R U]

Geeks!

 

Damn you, I was gonna say what a bunch of nerds

[mreye]

Damn you, I was gonna say what a bunch of nerds

[Kalapse]

http://www.mir3europe.com/index.asp

 

Really f***ing weird.

[Texsox]

You just try and take 25,000 posts from Southsider and heads will roll . . .

[Spiff]

I guess it's like spending a long time on a painting or something and then having someone destroy it. There's gonna be some anger involved. It's not justification for murder, but I can definitely see the frustration arising from something like that. I don't think it matters whether a cyber sword is property that can stolen, that's kinda stupid. But there must be some kind of retrobution for f***ing with someone's life like that.

 

Edit: Really, though, people need to look at the big picture in a situation like this.