Yet another example of how stupid and greedy people are.

A fellow gamer on RuneScape (Hmm.. I've been plugging this site too many times) was hacked. I knew him from NeoPets (I really need to stop plugging like this) where he got hacked once before. There he got hacked when he reached about a million NeoPoints, the money-like item that everyone there is striving for. He knew who did it and quit the game seeing how it was his second time he got hacked; the first time being when he had only a few hundred thousand NP. This time around, it was different. Not only did he lose all his game money, he lost about 3 million worth in items in the game. He mostly lost potion and armor that he worked so hard for. Unlike his previous time, he kept playing the game. Why? Cause RuneScape (Damn, another one) is a game about skill. Apparently the skill of deception is one of the skills you can use in the game. Like I said before, the ones that play by the rules are the onces that get cheated.

This may be a streach, but this "being hacked" thing in online games isn't a new thing. Know anyone getting robbed before? It's the same idea. Someone somehow gains access to where you hold your valuibles, be it your house or the bank, and runs off with them. In the game, everything can be gained again in time. Not in real life though. When you are robbed in real life, you lose memories, heirlomes, one-of-a-kind jewels or artwork, investments like TVs and computers. These kinds of things can't be regained. While new ones can be bought, some times it won't feel the same way. Nothing new can replace the feel and comfort of the old. Money is not really important sometimes. When you're robbed, that's when it shows how much you've taken it for granted. It also shows just how greedy and low some people can be.

I must be lucky. I have yet to be hacked in either RuneScape or NeoPets.... (DAMMIT! There went two more plugs!)