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#1 Feb 03 2004 at 9:57 AM Rating: Good
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Logged onto EQTools to look at maps, and what do I get? - An IGE pop-up ad across the top. Grrrrrrr.
#2 Feb 03 2004 at 10:39 AM Rating: Decent
Wait till you get their first message over main chat:

"You seem to be the impatient type that's why I wanted to contact you discreetly. Talk to Buymuyplat inside the Felwhite Keeper for further instructions...."

relax - just kidding!
#3 Feb 03 2004 at 3:02 PM Rating: Good
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My post dissappeared. I'll do it again.

What you say may be "just kidding" but I dont think it's too far-fetched. I saw an OOC in the bazaar that went something like this: Do you need an item that you cant find anywhere? Send me a tell and I can get it for you in 24 hours. It doesn't ateer waht it is.

Now that does sound an awful like like IGE is starting to operarate openly in the game. This was on The Rathe about 10:30 CST.

EagleFlight/Dyciere
#4 Feb 03 2004 at 5:48 PM Rating: Decent
I play on Ec'i and have seen about the same msg in bazaar
"send me a tell what ya want I'll do my best to get it for ya"
I didn't think anything of it at the time. now I wonder
#5 Feb 03 2004 at 6:46 PM Rating: Decent
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"send me a tell what ya want I'll do my best to get it for ya"


I saw the same EXACT message in the bazaar on Stromm, I also took it for nothing until just now!
#6 Feb 03 2004 at 7:23 PM Rating: Default
I just can't imagine that there is some large scale business behind that for 3 reasons:
1.) NO player is so stupid to pay in advance.
So 2.) getting the desired piece for someone after an agreed price puts the seller on the risk that the buyer is logged out changed his mind or whatever - so he's sitting on this piece now.
and 3.)NO large scale business takes the risky side! ;-)

If there's a scam behind its probably some kind of "market research" because geting 100 tells a day on each server makes quite a reliable popularity list so IGE&Co know better what to farm :))
#7 Feb 04 2004 at 2:16 AM Rating: Decent
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Perhaps IGE is simply coming out of the closet, so to speak. Why shouldn't they? SOE has proven to us their unwillingness to take significant action against IGE. Banning a few hundred accounts was more a PR stunt than anything else.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to keep my peepers out for this /ooc when in the bazaar. Not that I think anything will come of it.

Perhaps SOE or Sony should just get it over with and sell EQ to IGE. To date they seem pretty content to operate in a symbiotic relationship.

It's all a bit disgustipating.
#8 Feb 04 2004 at 4:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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What we really need is a benevolent yet slightly eccentric billionare willing to fund sting operations against IGE. The pirates all but dissappear when the q-ships come out to play. It would work, it has worked in the past, there's just no one with the means to do it.
#9 Feb 04 2004 at 9:53 AM Rating: Good
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I don't know bout that "no player is stupid enough to pay before getting thier stuff" bit. Maybe on your server. On The Rathe, Ihave seen numerous times, over the 3 years that I've played this game, numerous OOC's about some one took my money and didn't give me my stuff. Not too much of that since the bazaar opened - but a bunch when all auctions were in the EC tunnel.

Also IGE also sells high level gear for RL money on thier site - so why not recoup thier plat that they sold by selling gear in-game for plat. Makes sense to me.


EagleFlight/Dyciere
#10 Feb 04 2004 at 10:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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Kaolian, sorry to show my ignorance but what is a "string operation"?

And can I use it crack into pay **** sites.

jk about the **** thing, well mostly kidding.
#11 Feb 04 2004 at 1:47 PM Rating: Decent
http://eqlive.station.sony.com/news_section/communitynewsview.jsp?story=56915


The reason I am linking this here is I want to show proof that Sony does not care, because THEY ARE IN ON IT. This link is to an article that EQLive put out back last June, about EQ Platinum. They said it was a database of 10,000 articles to help out the EQ community. Sounds nice, huh? Problem, is that Yavis and SuperSales OWNS IT, has links back to their BUY PLATINUM RIGHT THERE. EQ is supporting these guys, and wouldn't it be a trip if they were the ones doing the price fixing in hopes to settle the market. Also, FYI, it is against the law for two opponents to use price fixing for a certain item. This is a FEDERAL OFFENSE, Punishable under the Anti-Trust Laws. I hate to sound like a barracks lawyer about what should be just a freaking game (as Woodlandmaster keeps telling me), but if there is something to this or not, I would like to hear something official from Sony and EQ.
#12 Feb 04 2004 at 2:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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A bit of board history 101 here for you. This:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/ubbnew/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=018062
is a sting operation. Basically you scam the scammer.
#13 Feb 04 2004 at 2:25 PM Rating: Decent
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That is freakin hilarious Kao... well done
#14 Feb 04 2004 at 2:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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Wow that was great Kaolian. Thanks for the info.

Now let's talk **** sites. jk, really jk
#15 Feb 04 2004 at 3:19 PM Rating: Decent
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Kao, that was too funny. I have read many of your posts before, but seriously, your going to get me fired. That was too funny! Keep the goods coming and the n0wbers in check!

/bows
#16 Feb 05 2004 at 5:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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Hehe, thanks.
#17 Feb 05 2004 at 9:23 AM Rating: Decent
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That was awesome, Kao...will come over to my server? Please? Smiley: yippee
#18 Feb 05 2004 at 9:29 AM Rating: Good
Better than any revenge movie I've ever seen - RL can be SOOO F*****G cool :)))

THX Guru Lord!
#19 Feb 05 2004 at 9:40 AM Rating: Good
I'm clueless...but please tell me the program is fake kao? (I play on bert too)
#20 Feb 05 2004 at 12:06 PM Rating: Good
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I'm clueless...but please tell me the program is fake kao?


The whole point of the post, was that the guy was tring to pass off a nasty trojan, as a program used to raise stats. It really did nothing but steal your user name and password.
#21 Feb 06 2004 at 8:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yes, unfortunatly quite real. Note how he asked me to delete my username and re-type it? It was a variation of the "Perfect Keylogger" Info: http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/p/perfect_keylogger.asp
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