How the Grinch Stole Christmas EVE

"Curzon Dax stole Christmas." Words I never intellection I'd be composition here, but there it is. EVE Online contestant 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 confidence scam. Curzon prefabricated the declaration on Christmas, no less, and settled the cheat at 374.4 1000000000 ISK raised.

While the players who were taken for those billions module certainly be inferior agog by this news, Curzon accomplished something that's becoming inferior and inferior ordinary in the game. For every contestant that uses guileful to acquire in New Eden, there is a multitude of contestant alts who use to copy-paste scams in topical chitchat at most any assignment and change hub in EVE. As these players only try to acquire from mislabeling items in contracts or email topical chitchat with the present "I'm quitting EVE. Send me ISK and I'll beam you 10x back!" garbage, Curzon aimed much higher and cultivated an ikon which he utilised to draw his marks in.

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

Once Curzon had secured 50 1000000000 ISK with his IPO, he utilised it to rope investors into gift him modify more ISK. He revealed how he pulled it off: "My initial 50 1000000000 ISK substance got me a list of investors. Over the mass weeks and months, I got in contact with most of them in mortal (in constituent to added people) and worked discover clannish deals, where apiece mortal intellection they were feat to privately money a 'shortage' in my commercialism in mercantilism for digit 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 effort 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 ever verify to be leaving EVE, Curzon actually is leaving the game. Perpetrating a cheat was digit thing he'd never finished in the nearly six years he had played EVE Online -- his 374 1000000000 ISK haul is also his swan song.

Beyond what he's already presented away to players, Curzon is expiration on this riches to added contestant (who he hasn't named). He said, "While I'm leaving EVE, and the parodies module disappear, every the riches and tar gear I've acquired isn't feat to squander - an unnamed recipient who knows who he/she is already is feat to get... well, everything. They've worked hard to make EVE a great game, and my riches are feat to be a salary for them that is long overdue, although they're belike flush enough already to make it pointless."

Curzon Dax's statements indicate that he acted alone.