Kotaku Brian Ashcraft writes:
It all started with a gothic Lolita dress. A 16 year-old Japanese gamer has been arrested by cops from Tokyo Metropolitan Police's "Hi-Tech Crimes Control Center" for stealing 36 million yen (US $325,000) worth of virtual currency that's used in online RPG Mabinogi. The teen obtained the ID and password of an employee at the Tokyo branch of Korean game company NEXON. With that info, he accessed the company's servers and filled his virtual pockets with in-game money. He allegedly converted amount 600,000 yen ($5,500) into real cash, which he spent on books and software.
"Today, leading game publisher Nexon announced its venerable free-to-play fantasy MMORPG "Mabinogi" will be celebrating its 14th anniversary on March 27th, 2022." - Nexon.
"Leading game developer Nexon today announced that they have just released the second update to the "Stardust" saga for their F2P fantasy MMORPG “Mabinogi." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"Leading game developer Nexon has announced the newest Stardust update for its free-to-play fantasy MMORPG "Mabinogi". Beginning today, Milletians will be introduced to the latest non-playable character (NPC) Melwyn, who will award players with materials to unlock mystical Stardust skills. Players will also be able to participate in the challenging Shadow Missions and new Intermediate Dungeon Levels." - Nexon
This looks good, and the studio was created by the original Arkane Studios head, so it should be in good hands.
The lengths people will go to get certain items in games, lol
wow he bought books? anyways great job just to bad you didn't got away with it
it sounds like some teenaged cross dressing hacker gone wild. Great stuff.
Great, another horrible Law & Order episode in the making