How the Grinch Stole Christmas EVE

"Curzon Dax stole Christmas." Words I never intellection I'd be writing here, but there it is. EVE Online player and forum personality "Curzon Dax" -- perhaps prizewinning famous for his many strain parodies of the mettlesome and its players -- has undraped his in-game commercialism for what it really was: a multi-billion ISK certainty scam. Curzon made the declaration on Christmas, no less, and settled the cheat at 374.4 1000000000 ISK raised.

While the players who were condemned for those zillions module sure be inferior excited by this news, Curzon realised something that's decent inferior and inferior ordinary in the game. For every player that uses cunning to acquire in New Eden, there is a multitude of player alts who resort to copy-paste scams in topical chitchat at most any mission and change hub in EVE. As these players only try to acquire from mislabeling items in contracts or spam topical chitchat with the present "I'm quitting EVE. Send me ISK and I'll send you 10x back!" garbage, Curzon aimed such higher and cultivated an ikon which he utilised to entertainer his marks in.

He was already famous for flying pimped battleships with pricey tar modules, but his resources were farther inferior than what most assumed. He said, "To be honest, I've never been worth hundreds of zillions of ISK, as most folks conceive I was. I've been a billionaire, but never the fantastically flush mortal that I've made myself discover to be. It was meet an image."

Once Curzon had secured 50 1000000000 ISK with his IPO, he utilised it to rope investors into giving him modify more ISK. He revealed how he pulled it off: "My initial 50 1000000000 ISK offering got me a itemize of investors. Over the following weeks and months, I got in contact with most of them in mortal (in constituent to other people) and worked discover clannish deals, where apiece mortal intellection they were feat to privately fund a 'shortage' in my commercialism in mercantilism for one of my officer-fit ships. The bulk of my fund-raising came from that."

"There's a aggregation of folks who intellection that they're getting an officer-fit Golem, or a Paladin, or a Guardian-Vexor today," he expressed on Christmas. Clearly, this was not meant to be.

Ironically, unlike the small-time scammers who always verify to be leaving EVE, Curzon actually is leaving the game. Perpetrating a cheat was one thing he'd never finished in the nearly sextet eld he had played EVE Online -- his 374 1000000000 ISK haul is also his swan song.

Beyond what he's already given absent to players, Curzon is expiration on this riches to another player (who he hasn't named). He said, "While I'm leaving EVE, and the parodies module disappear, every the riches and tar equipment I've acquired isn't feat to squander - an unnamed acquirer who knows who he/she is already is feat to get... well, everything. They've worked hornlike to make EVE a great game, and my riches are feat to be a salary for them that is long overdue, although they're probably flush sufficiency already to attain it pointless."

Curzon Dax's statements inform that he acted alone.