killed IRL over virtual property

[AkMan]

This is scary shit:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=11&u=/nm/life_china_sabre_dc



Online Gamer Stabbed for Selling Cyber-Saber

Wed Mar 30,10:23 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters



BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily said 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 saber," used in the popular online game, "Legend of Mir 3," the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told 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.


"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him," the court was told.


The newspaper did not specify the charge against Qiu but said he had given himself up to police and already pleaded guilty to "intentional injury."


No verdict has been announced.


More and more online gamers were seeking justice through the courts over stolen weapons and credits, the newspaper said.


"The armor and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them," Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing's Renmin University of China, was quoted as saying.


But other experts are calling for caution. "The 'assets' of one player could mean nothing to others as they are by nature just data created by game providers," a lawyer for a Shanghai-based Internet game company was quoted as saying.

[StrayRogue]

There's been times in Warcraft 3 where I probably would kill someone if they were in the room with me.

[Alfster]

Wow. Killing someone over a video game, whenever I hear about shit like this it makes me wonder WTF is wrong with society today.

[StrayRogue]

Oh so theres things WORTH killing people over. Gotcha.

[Alfster]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Oh so theres things WORTH killing people over. Gotcha.

There are times that I believe killing someone can be justified.

One of which would be the instance during deer hunting season where a man shot and killed 5 or 6 people less than a mile from where I hunt. Had he done that to anyone in my hunting party, my scope would have been on him.

So yes, there are instances where I could see the justification for killing someone.

[Apotheosis]

wow.. this happened in china, and it really illustrates to marketers what goes on in the mind of people who are 'fanatically' attached to a game......

[Showal]

i cant wait to see a pizza man being killed for delivering a pizza to a Everquest person's house using "/pizza" because the pizza boy laughed at the person dressed in full EQ apparel and the player was in complete EQ mode.

[Hulkein]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Oh so theres things WORTH killing people over. Gotcha.

Yes.

Killing someone because they aggro'd a room in WoW isn't one of them.

[Edited on 3-31-2005 by Hulkein]

[Artha]

Aggro'ing a room in WoW isn't worth it, sorry.
Depends on what quest you're doing.

[StrayRogue]

Shame WoW isn't Warcraft 3 either. But then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to read, jut someone with more intelligence than Hulkein.

[Apotheosis]

Originally posted by Showal
i cant wait to see a pizza man being killed for delivering a pizza to a Everquest person's house using "/pizza" because the pizza boy laughed at the person dressed in full EQ apparel and the player was in complete EQ mode.

On a side note, I was on campus, when a group of people were dressed up in flimsy armor and carrying fake swords.. I was like ... 'defending the campus from trolls' and they just stared at me :(

[Hulkein]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Shame WoW isn't Warcraft 3 either. But then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to read, jut someone with more intelligence than Hulkein.

Oh gnoes! I scanned over the game name, what a tragic flaw which shows my lack of intelligence!

When I see Warcraft in a post, I think WoW, sorry, not everyone plays computer games 10 hours a day, jerkoff.

[Betheny]

I'm scared of Grah now.

[AnticorRifling]

He didn't kill him for the sword. He killed him for the 720 bones. I'd probably only tin snip a thumb for that kind of bread. Add a few zeros and I might be looking at some concrete shoes in your size.

[Showal]

I'd kill someone over a kobold's short sword, IRL too. Fuck reasons, I'm a fucking killer.

[AnticorRifling]

Originally posted by Showal
I'd kill someone over a kobold's short sword, IRL too. Fuck reasons, I'm a fucking killer.

For some reason I see you having the flight responce vice the fight.

[Showal]

That's because you're a fat man wearing a kilt like in that picture.

[SpunGirl]

Amusingly enough, I was just discussing something similar tonight with a friend. We said that if a certain GameHost ever had the 'nads to show up at Simucon, we might drown him in the pool.

After poking his eyes out with chopsticks.

Non-fatally, of course.

-K

[Farquar]

This kind of strange mmorpg related stuff happens in Asia more often than you'd think. Some dude actually died playing an MMORPG, at an INTERNET CAFE. Apparently, he was taking coke to stay awake, and was playing for three days straight when his body gave out.

[Hulkein]

That's awesome.

Those whiley Asians.

[Warriorbird]

Ha ha ha. Crazed.

[Edaarin]

Stupid [Asians inferior to me].

[Edited on 31-3-05 by Miss X]

Apparently, I'm not allowed to poke fun at my own race.

[Edited on 3-31-2005 by Edaarin]

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by Showal
That's because you're a fat man wearing a kilt like in that picture.

Yea.. because that picture is really him.

OR WAIT A MINUTE.. MAYBE IT'S YOU!!!!!

U R A FAT MAN IN A KILT!!!

[Atlanteax]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
Amusingly enough, I was just discussing something similar tonight with a friend. We said that if a certain GameHost ever had the 'nads to show up at Simucon, we might drown him in the pool.

After poking his eyes out with chopsticks.

Non-fatally, of course.

-K

Who would that be? :wow:

These guys are really hard core power games. ph34t th3r3 l33t sk!llz

- Arkans

[SpunGirl]

Originally posted by Atlanteax

Who would that be? :wow:

That's classified.

-K

[Sean of the Thread]

Originally posted by Alfster

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Oh so theres things WORTH killing people over. Gotcha.

There are times that I believe killing someone can be justified.

One of which would be the instance during deer hunting season where a man shot and killed 5 or 6 people less than a mile from where I hunt. Had he done that to anyone in my hunting party, my scope would have been on him.

So yes, there are instances where I could see the justification for killing someone.

I can't wait to see how that case turns out. From all accounts they initiated a hate crime on the man and the rest is history.

[SnatchWrangler]

Originally posted by Xyelin

I can't wait to see how that case turns out. From all accounts they initiated a hate crime on the man and the rest is history.

Really?! If it's the story I'm thinking of, I only heard the initial part of it, not what you're referring to. Any idea of a link to what you're referring to?

[Sean of the Thread]

I'll try and find it. It may be two different cases. The one I'm talking about all the hunters got pissy with the guy who was hunting on their lodge property or somin.

[Alfster]

Yeah, thats the one that I'm thinking of as well. I'm not sure about the hate crime aspect of it, but I do know that the man is also being charged with 2 murders during 2 other hunting seasons...

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by SpunGirl

Originally posted by Atlanteax

Who would that be? :wow:

That's classified.

-K

You haven't been very good at keeping that information classified. Hell, I haven't played in 4 months and I know who you are talking about.

[Snapp]

I thought this was gonna be another story about those crazy Alaskans. :(

[AkMan]

Hah I don't think Kranar has enough bandwidth for me to post every story about crazy alaskans. I'll do my best though.

[Warriorbird]

Don't be so mean to Quabu.

:P

[Atlanteax]

Originally posted by Parkbandit

Originally posted by SpunGirl

Originally posted by Atlanteax

Who would that be? :wow:

That's classified.

-K

You haven't been very good at keeping that information classified. Hell, I haven't played in 4 months and I know who you are talking about.

Yea, I know who it is now too, and I agree with it. :smug:

[SpunGirl]

See, I knew I liked Atlanteax for a reason.

-K