The Infamous EVE Online Bank Heist | The Stuff of Legends

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  • @UnreasonableOpinions
    @UnreasonableOpinions Рік тому +2846

    Eve Online is the best game to have other people play and tell you stories about.

    • @r6scrubs126
      @r6scrubs126 Рік тому +126

      Yeah this and dwarf fortress

    • @brendankendall41
      @brendankendall41 Рік тому

      @@r6scrubs126 You hear all of the amazing stories of fortresses that worked, but not of the countless fortresses that die from non-preventable issues and mistakes. One time, there was an unstoppable undead siege on my fortress, so I ordered everybody to hide in the residential block and seal it off. One of the last dwarves, Zan, decided to fall asleep perfectly inside of the door that connects the residential block to everything. His personal bedroom, with a nice cozy bed, was mere meters away. Everybody died 💀

    • @H1LOL
      @H1LOL Рік тому +33

      EvE is the best videogame about which to tell stories, hopefully he continues with telling stories about eve. Example: the judge, the casino wars ...

    • @csblakeley
      @csblakeley Рік тому +18

      I'd happily read the novel or the comic book of Eve Online.

    • @H1LOL
      @H1LOL Рік тому +19

      @@csblakeley there is a book, called empires of eve I think, (it's about player driven events, aka war...)

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf Рік тому +1317

    _EVE Online_ is the most believable depiction of humanity's future among the stars: The same old drudgery and exploitation, only now there's pretty nebulae to look at.

    • @kin-3877
      @kin-3877 Рік тому +24

      @@SimuLord it's not the best choice. it's SPACER'S choice!

    • @everythingsalright1121
      @everythingsalright1121 Рік тому +23

      And even then not that pretty cause real color photos of space are relatively boring. Most pictures of space are false color images because real color photos arent that helpful for research.

    • @theunexpectedua
      @theunexpectedua Рік тому +6

      ​@@everythingsalright1121Yeah, it's all dull and dark out there.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 Рік тому +6

      @@SimuLord EVE Online is even more capitalistic than the Outer Worlds tho lol

    • @dean_l33
      @dean_l33 Рік тому +1

      @@LordVader1094 The outer world is mid at beast anyway

  • @TheKeeperofChaos
    @TheKeeperofChaos Рік тому +490

    Can I just say I love how the little black imps have gone from being Yahtzee's canon fodder to an actual race of... things that apparently matter enough for other Escapist employees to have to babysit

    • @theescapist
      @theescapist  Рік тому +153

      We've had a lot of fun expanding the art style into new formats!

    • @TheKeeperofChaos
      @TheKeeperofChaos Рік тому +23

      Lore across youtube videos: the first step towards the great Escapist Cinematic Universe

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 Рік тому +4

      @@TheKeeperofChaos The ECU 2.0. 1.0 had MovieBob, LoadingReadyRun, Jim Sterling, Miracle of Sound, Lisa Foiles, I think MatPat (the Game Theory guy), and so many other contributors whose names escape me now and don't appear on the new site now.

    • @xgoodvibesx
      @xgoodvibesx Рік тому

      @@theescapist I'm trying to work out if you were re-using assets or that was a genuine Jeremy Goodsex easter egg... 🤔
      Actually I don't want anything to do with anything Jeremy might call an easter egg. Ew.

    • @nikobitan7294
      @nikobitan7294 Рік тому

      I feel like they're supposed to be equated with little devils that is children that you have to take care of.

  • @xbox1445
    @xbox1445 Рік тому +373

    EVE online, fascinating to discuss, listen to it's stories and invest on its community's lore and yet I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole since I don't want a second job, but kinda still would want to "play"

    • @TJ-vo3rv
      @TJ-vo3rv Рік тому +51

      This reminds me of a running joke in the EVE community. The only way to win at EVE is to not play. I was losing for years, but have a pretty solid win streak going on the moment.

    • @gautambudidha1110
      @gautambudidha1110 Рік тому +59

      So what I'm hearing is that you would value a guided tour of EVE online without having to sully yourself in its realities. Sounds like a business opportunity.

    • @TJ-vo3rv
      @TJ-vo3rv Рік тому +47

      @@gautambudidha1110 Spoken like a true EVE player.

    • @thesollylama130
      @thesollylama130 Рік тому

      @@TJ-vo3rv Just come to Delve. We offer hugs and free Quafe Zero. I promise.......

    • @Jerberus
      @Jerberus Рік тому +5

      The 'second job' meme although Extremely true is usually attributed to joining an alliance with the intent to be a part of the big fleet battles. You can absolutely be successful playing solo. Otherwise it's the discord ping sound playing in your dreams.

  • @ThisAintAStupidName
    @ThisAintAStupidName Рік тому +74

    I love EVE Online stories. That community is so dedicated and intense, I don't think there is another one like it on earth.
    Every story that makes it out of EVE is always spectacular and absurd in equal measure, because the community takes it so seriously it approaches farce, but never quite makes it.

  • @Loydthehighwayman
    @Loydthehighwayman Рік тому +229

    Ever since then, EvE Online player banks have been classified as one of the text books scams in the game. There is a whole guide on what kind of scams exists, and how t avoid them in EvE Universities wiki.

    • @MrProthall
      @MrProthall Рік тому +41

      Eve players better ready for banking fraud than all the crypto bros combined, lol

    • @anorouch
      @anorouch Рік тому +1

      Yeah thanks but no thanks. Eve is the kind of game that is no longer fun with the amount of bullshit that goes on. From corps owning whole categories of materials, to folks scamming newbs out of their first ship for the lols, to folks being able to blow up others in high sec and escape like nothing happened, it's not for me. I'll take a Westworld over the actual Wild West any day.

    • @nikobitan7294
      @nikobitan7294 Рік тому

      Are there any legit ones?

    • @Loydthehighwayman
      @Loydthehighwayman Рік тому

      @@nikobitan7294 Yes.
      Your own pocket.
      Player banks are not safe.

    • @bilateralrope8643
      @bilateralrope8643 Рік тому

      @@nikobitan7294Maybe there were some that were intended to be legit. At first.
      Until someone with access to the banks wallets gets tempted to empty them. A few clicks later and all that ISK is in their personal wallet.

  • @psyxypher3881
    @psyxypher3881 Рік тому +666

    What I find fascinating is that what Cally did would be considered a felony if done in meatspace.

    • @The_Jovian
      @The_Jovian Рік тому +170

      You try prosecuting the guy with the biggest, baddest warship on the server

    • @StaffordMagnus
      @StaffordMagnus Рік тому +58

      The funny thing about Titans in EvE is they're very good at killing other capital ships, but terrible at dealing with anything smaller.
      EvE has no ship that is the best at everything, instead every ship class has something of a rock/paper/scissors dynamic.

    • @kiba_the_lucky
      @kiba_the_lucky Рік тому +26

      he committed a felony but he also has a nuclear bomb so really what could you do about it

    • @psyxypher3881
      @psyxypher3881 Рік тому +21

      @@SimuLord Under ANY interpretation of Libertarianism lying and deception on a contract is considered criminal.
      Please don't spew crap. It makes my life a lot harder.

    • @cheddarssalad1230
      @cheddarssalad1230 Рік тому +16

      It’s an interesting dilemma. The game lets you steal and kill. Conning feels different but I can’t say it is with any empirical evidence. Just another fictional crime in a fictional world.

  • @DanGamingFan2406
    @DanGamingFan2406 Рік тому +299

    Frost delivers once again, he could narrate anything. If I had an Interstellar Kredit for everytime the word "space" was said in this video, I'd be able to built Cally's spaceship. Also, pretty wild how Cally didn't technically break any rules and got away with it.

    • @watershipup7101
      @watershipup7101 Рік тому +12

      The Final Frontier is basically the Wild West in that regard.

  • @blueshift502
    @blueshift502 Рік тому +26

    The Escapist could do a standalone series just about the legendary moments in Eve Online. From scams to wars that spread to every corner of the game, multi year hunts to destroy a specific ship, or the backstabbing and coups that happen at an alliance level. So many stories.

    • @theescapist
      @theescapist  Рік тому +7

      We won't be doing that, but we do have a big documentary airing at EVE Fanfest in September!

  • @skyfiresage5980
    @skyfiresage5980 Рік тому +69

    I gotta say, The Stuff Of Legends is quickly becoming my favorite Escapist series.

  • @The1Trollmonkey
    @The1Trollmonkey Рік тому +179

    I think this has become my new favorite series on The Escapist! Well done, Frost and team!

  • @spenceduggs
    @spenceduggs Рік тому +28

    I'm loving this format!
    I honestly adore that Yahtzee's art style has kinda become the defacto Escapist look, it's simple & versatile enough for expressive storytelling

  • @EXiLExJD
    @EXiLExJD Рік тому +41

    This series is great. Even though I've already heard most of the stories before, with Frosts narration its like hearing them for the first time.

    • @rushi5638
      @rushi5638 Рік тому

      Man's voice is buttery smooth, like getting diddled by a guy wearing a velvet glove.

  • @avpguy11
    @avpguy11 Рік тому +16

    EVE online had a player operated bank complete with loans and interest and repayment plans and yes this is a game that people actually play for fun.

    • @thesollylama130
      @thesollylama130 Рік тому +4

      @@SimuLord That is only one aspect of Eve. I have played since 2011 and never once opened a spreadsheet. Simply repeating memes you've heard is no way to go thru life.

  • @GloomRng
    @GloomRng Рік тому +39

    You've hit solid gold with this series, first thing ive wanted to watch consistently since zero p ❤

  • @gogauze
    @gogauze Рік тому +47

    I wouldn't say Elite: Dangerous falls squarely into the MMO category. But, it had enough similarities and players, years back, to have a few thriving player factions.
    Jetsetting between neutron stars to bail out pilots who'd gotten themselves stuck in the black, as a Fuel Rat, was definitely one of the most positive online gaming experiences I've ever had.

    • @Sevik07
      @Sevik07 Рік тому +13

      o7 My heroic little rats, wouldnt make it to the beagle point without you.

    • @StMargorach
      @StMargorach Рік тому +8

      Ive had 1 exerience with the fue rats, and it was quite amazing
      utting in my request and having a real life player showing up to rescue my sorry ass.
      because i had accidentally clicked on the wrong type of stars while jumping between systems and running out of fuel.
      I had the rebuy costs, but i didnt want to loose all my exploration data when i was less than a 1000 LY away from the bubble on my way back XD
      Dude showed up with refueling limpets and got my exploration Anaconda enough fuel to jump to a star where i could refuel :)

  • @stripes9386
    @stripes9386 Рік тому +23

    Having never heard of Eve Online before, this is an INSANE story. Not because of the heist but because of the amount of freedom and community-driven content in this game.

    • @rushi5638
      @rushi5638 Рік тому +12

      Used to be really, really cool. It's still amazing, don't get me wrong, but like.. man... EVE back in 2006 when this happened was a wholly unique beast. There was an in-game web browser because the devs knew your ass was going to be googling. The skill curve stuff he mentioned at the start of this video was extremely true back then. Still pretty true, but it's become more accessible as the decades crept on. Like, experience used to be *experience*: something you can only gain with dedication over time. If you wanted to fly the ship this guy bought with his scammed proceeds, your only option was that your character had to study for it. For literal real world years. That's still how levelling and progression works today I think, but they added "skill injectors" which made it so you can skip a lot of the wait... for a price.
      I'd probably still be playing if they hadn't done that. Not that I think it destroyed the game or anything - I think it's probably for the best if progression moves a little faster and is actually correlated with playing the game (which skill injectors do, since you can earn money mining or whatever and buy one with the ISK you earned and speed up progression). It's just, EVE's thing from day one has been PLEx - the Pilot License Extension. Pretty sure they *invented* the whole "buy a month of subscription as an in-game item you can sell to other players" method for players turning $ into in-game currency. Meaning my ass can't play anymore without being sorely tempted to spend hundreds of dollars buying PLEX, selling those to other players for ISK, and then buying injectors from them to skip the boring waiting bits. Skill issue on my part. As long as you have the self-restraint to not dump an entire paycheck into skill injectors, the game's better than it's ever been.

    • @snoozbuster
      @snoozbuster Рік тому +4

      About 10 years ago I used to get rides home from a guy in his mid 20s who spent a lot of time on eve. I loved hearing his stories about that game. It was sort of like hearing stories about someone’s epic D&D campaign but on a massive scale. Always awed me.

    • @snails6997
      @snails6997 Рік тому

      Yeah its cool. But just in real life, you need to join with other people to enjoy being part of the space news.
      Without it, you will lost on what to do since there is just insane sheer amount of options to do. Just like in the real world.

  • @espio87
    @espio87 Рік тому +181

    Did the players eventually take revenge on him? Seeing as he put a bounty on himself, there must've been at least one attempt to raid his ship.

    • @landencarr5443
      @landencarr5443 Рік тому +30

      he had a 170,000 dollar ship
      i doubt anybody made good on the bounty

    • @rushi5638
      @rushi5638 Рік тому +48

      @@landencarr5443 Sounds impressive, but ISK was really valuable back then. Plenty of guilds (in EVE they're called Corporations, but same concept) had capital or supercapital class ships of their own, and they all cost something with a real world equivalent value in that ballpark. The little guys probably weren't gonna be making good on that bounty, but that's what the proceeds gained from selling off the remaining bank resources were for. The bounty was for the corps: if they wanted to recoup their losses, they were going to have to work for the privilege.
      (Although at the same time, it wouldn't surprise me if the corps that were banking with him were banking up for their own capital/supercapital - lord knows if I was planning on scamming people to buy a Titan, I'd probably only be taking investments from corps that didn't have a fleet that I'd need to be worried about.)

    • @DaLiJeIOvoImeZauzeto
      @DaLiJeIOvoImeZauzeto Рік тому +6

      @@rushi5638 I'm not an Eve player, but wouldn't attacking the supership incur substantial enough loses to a company so as to make it vulnerable to (other companies') attack? Seems the only way to get him is to make an alliance, though can corporations trust one another in that world, I wonder.

    • @IgottwormmS
      @IgottwormmS Рік тому +6

      Probably not. You can just buy a trained character with isk in the character bazaar. Cally probably had multiple characters already and some were probably not known to anyone he could transfer the stolen wealth. He had plenty of money to just buy a new character and sell his. Something similar happened to an alliance I was in at one point by a guy named Lumpynurse. Players did want to take revenge on him and he had already sold his character to someone before any damage to Lumpy could be done.
      The most powerful ship in the game is a Titan. It was likely stolen and he knew he would have a hard time getting the ship out of alliance controlled territory. If he did put up a fight in that titan, he knew it would be destroyed and did not care, especially if he put insurance on the ship before it was destroyed, he probably made a profit from getting the Titan destroyed whether he had insurance or not. In 2011, a titan may have cost around 30--50 billion isk. Nowadays they cost quite a bit more I think.
      Eve is a very unique game however, the game has turned into the worst offender for pay to win games in existence. It used to be where you had to train skills in real time to increase skill levels, which still remains but, now you can just buy skill boosters on the market sold directly from ccp games and as long as you got deep pockets, you can add years worth of skills in a day or sell the boosters yourself for in game currency and buy anything you want. It does take some knowledge and experience to fly expensive ships well and not get destroyed immediately after undocking but if u have the real life cash to invest, knowledge and experience will follow eventually.

    • @thorveim1174
      @thorveim1174 8 місяців тому +1

      @@landencarr5443 you'd be surprised. In this game, no ship is immortal especially when its almost the norm to gang up on players. And he willingly painted a massive target on his back. Still he could have well never undocked and this risked himself on that character.

  • @RobertStoll
    @RobertStoll Рік тому +44

    I can see why Yahtzee's so grumpy if the gremlins have an Iron Maiden lol. The implications of that is tiring enough

  • @samadams8533
    @samadams8533 Рік тому +10

    The Falador Massacre would be a great one to go over, it’s a hilarious RuneScape legend that spread like wildfire

  • @hanniballahr94
    @hanniballahr94 Рік тому +31

    Only just noticed the Adventure is Nigh plushies around the kids' room.

  • @Brusanan
    @Brusanan Рік тому +28

    I spent 11 years as a space psychopath. At its peak Eve Online was the greatest game ever made, and no other game will ever come close to matching it.

    • @Jaigarful
      @Jaigarful Рік тому +1

      For sure. I learned a lot from EVE.

  • @RigsyB
    @RigsyB Рік тому +3

    Nowadays there is an EVE streamer called OzEVE who runs an honest to god investment fund. He just used some of his riches to start a new show which is an EVE incarnation of Shark Tank for people to pitch investment proposals.

  • @mho...
    @mho... Рік тому +3

    never went into the EVE rabbithole, but the storys coming out of that universe over the decades are just golden!

  • @TheOnlyGM
    @TheOnlyGM Рік тому +14

    Great Series - I love hearing you retell these old stories! Have my comment and like as an algorithm booster!

  • @ironwolf5802
    @ironwolf5802 Рік тому +3

    I'm so glad these kinds of stories are around. They're modern-day legions that I would never have known.

  • @mobibobobobobobobvobobo
    @mobibobobobobobobvobobo Рік тому +6

    I felt compelled to rewatch this video today. I really like this stuff! More plz!

  • @Supermac97451
    @Supermac97451 Рік тому +29

    God, this series is fantastic.

  • @T1ggles
    @T1ggles Рік тому +3

    Oh man I had heard of this even as someone who has never touched the game. nice to have a video detailing it!

  • @Lex-LutherS
    @Lex-LutherS Рік тому +4

    I remember watching a long ass video about this exact heist and couldn't believe it.
    Ever more I fall down the Eve online rabbit hole

  • @loganusher591
    @loganusher591 Рік тому +9

    I am absolutely loving this series

  • @ryodark
    @ryodark Рік тому +4

    I am SO glad you're continuing with this series! What an absolutely wild story!

  • @diegofloor
    @diegofloor Рік тому +47

    I could never get into MMOs, but this is what makes them special. It pains me when new MMOs try to railroad the players into specific behaviors, because it negates the entire point of having a community driven system. Embrace the criminals! rob banks! become law enforcers or detectives! that's how interesting narratives are created.

    • @YourBlackLocal
      @YourBlackLocal Рік тому +10

      Honestly, this is very rare in MMOS in general. EVE was more the exception than the rule. Once WOW came out, most MMOs realised people simply like railroading more than they do freedom that requires personal investment.

    • @MaztRPwn
      @MaztRPwn Рік тому +1

      Community driven games are cancer, especially when there's an economy for sociopaths to ruin and take advantage of.

    • @willowbarrelmaker8269
      @willowbarrelmaker8269 Рік тому

      The problem with community driven games is that you need to very carefully build the systems that facilitate engaging player interaction, and while much more interesting to talk about, they are also significantly less engaging to actually play and will always have smaller communities, and thus numbers, than a railroad game of the same status

    • @thesollylama130
      @thesollylama130 Рік тому +1

      @@willowbarrelmaker8269 It's largely cultural, not game mechanics. For example the greatest sin you can commit in Goonswarm is 'Goonfucking'. Take advantage of a fellow bee and the boot of justice will quickly find your backside out of the alliance. We don't care what you do to the pubbies, but fuck with a fellow Goon and it's a wrap for you. Same mechanics apply, but we have a tight knit culture within the alliance, and we back that up with an overwhelmingly negative response to shenanigans.

  • @GeminiOrion9
    @GeminiOrion9 Рік тому +4

    _hear people talk about Frost and his narration_ Oh, that's cool, another guy named Frost that has a nice voice, reminds me of the one from Smite- IT'S THE SAME ONE? FROST ON THE ESCAPIST?
    Well shoot, the Escapist really picked up a good one, way to go Frost! Can't wait to see more of your content on here!

  • @ZatomiAwake
    @ZatomiAwake Рік тому +6

    Old MMO stories are the peak of "you had to be there".

  • @mmcmullen8543
    @mmcmullen8543 Рік тому +8

    This series is amazing. It's good enough to rival zero punctuation

  • @deadcard13
    @deadcard13 Рік тому +3

    It's just like watching DBZ Abridged when they tacked "Space" in front of everything.

  • @ThatFanBoyGuy
    @ThatFanBoyGuy Рік тому +2

    I love how Adventure is Nigh characters are making into The Stuff of Legends 😃

  • @s.g.3898
    @s.g.3898 Рік тому

    One of the best quote I heard someone spout was "School taught me nothing. Eve Online taught me to lie, cheat, steal and kill. Real transferable life skills"
    Never played a game quite like Eve. Sank a number of years into it and still have some contact with a number of guys I flew with

  • @theokid2000
    @theokid2000 Рік тому +1

    I was so excited for an EVE online story, made 100x more giddy when I heard it was you narrating!

  • @tonimaunde
    @tonimaunde Рік тому +2

    The story, the delivery: both sublime.

  • @necrovarius225
    @necrovarius225 Рік тому +5

    I could listen to this guy read the ingredients of a shampoo bottle and be entertained. I love the cold grit and flat sarcasm. I need moar!!

  • @Razruer
    @Razruer Рік тому +1

    I'm glad I stopped by to given this a listen. Think I'll start watching more than ZP

  • @carbide4458
    @carbide4458 Рік тому +9

    Fascinating story, but a prime example of why EVE is not in my wheelhouse of game

  • @mattkent4397
    @mattkent4397 Рік тому

    One of the operators who died in Benghazi was an EVE online player, his last message was “they’re shooting again. Be right back.”

  • @OtherMomo
    @OtherMomo Рік тому +18

    Damn I can't imagine ever allowing my in-game assets to be stored or used by another player. I don't care how trustworthy the rest of the universe thinks they are

    • @thesollylama130
      @thesollylama130 Рік тому +5

      It's a matter of who your friends are. Within the established corps and alliances we don't even blink at trusting your mates. For example I routinely transport billions of isk worth of ships for my alliance mates to battle fronts or PvE content. I'll happily lend out expensive ships to people so they can participate in something rather than sit it out. The worst sin you can commit is to screw over a corp or alliance mate.

  • @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462
    @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Рік тому +1

    Got to respect the guy for sticking an space bounty on himself and throwing down the space glove for people to get their space money back.

  • @chadjones1266
    @chadjones1266 Рік тому +1

    Love these video game history videos.
    Do the one where the guy kites a group of giants to get revenge on high level players.

  • @breakkid144
    @breakkid144 Рік тому +2

    I love this series. this is something really good. reminiscent of the old escapist days in quality

  • @ah_dan6572
    @ah_dan6572 Рік тому +1

    More of this! Love hearing about stories from games with long and crazy histories

  • @DrDoggoat
    @DrDoggoat Рік тому +3

    every time I watch one of these I am reminded how much I need a plush of Grinderbin and also Dabarella and also Sigmar and also Mortimer to complete the whole set.

  • @ThomasWinget
    @ThomasWinget Рік тому

    I didn't think carefully about the "bank" part of the title and came in thinking this was gonna be about the infiltration job with the Guiding Hand Social Club that got a good bit of notoriety. I now know of *two* fun Eve stories! Seems like a crazy fun game that I do *not* have time for...

  • @MegaChickenfish
    @MegaChickenfish Рік тому

    I had heard of this debacle but never saw the actual footage. Brilliant. To literally have an evil monologue of himself on a low res screen as he flies off in his space deathstar. If you're going to be evil in the real world and commit massive bank fraud, *up your game.*

  • @ronjohnson6916
    @ronjohnson6916 Рік тому +1

    Man I am loving this series.

  • @DrJigglebones
    @DrJigglebones Рік тому +1

    escapist, this is a fantastic series. do more of this for sure

  • @jcohasset23
    @jcohasset23 Рік тому +2

    I haven't played EVE Online since about 2010. It was both the most fun and the dullest time I've had with an MMO. If you're willing to treat it like a second job you can do some pretty amazing things in the game and certainly some of the battles that have been fought in EVE Online are legendary in the video game community for including thousands of players and ships. Because of ship destruction and avatar death being permanent it's one of the few games that will actually make you feel a wide range of emotions. It's probably the closest you can get to a real life space sim without actually being in one.

  • @TheBreadbear
    @TheBreadbear Рік тому +1

    EVE seems like the type of game that you don't want to play but want to hear about.

  • @ChenAnPin
    @ChenAnPin Рік тому

    10:18 Missed out on the chance to put in the pun "pull yourself up from the space-bootstraps..."

  • @OfirFatal
    @OfirFatal Рік тому +1

    I absolutely love this new video series!!

  • @joshm3484
    @joshm3484 Рік тому

    "I died" is as original as "That wasn't me, that was my cousin."

  • @Pjs-ge7gk
    @Pjs-ge7gk 8 місяців тому

    paving the way for EVE online's first detective agency, bank regulators and thieves guild

  • @GreyfauxxGaming
    @GreyfauxxGaming Рік тому +1

    This series is amazing keep them coming!

  • @D4narchy
    @D4narchy Рік тому

    When i first started playing in about 2009 i was recruited by some random corporation about two weeks into playing. They were just hoovering up newbies and teaching them to mine and run missions with small fleets, taxing it, standard stuff. Though i quickly became friends with another guy in the corp, we got along and had the same timezone. When we were wardecced he was excited about it, not afraid like everyone else, showed me how to fit my ship so it looked like garbage but was made for tackling and destroying. Then i was fucking hooked. After doing some PVP with my new friend in the corp he told me to create a new character and add them to another random corporation.... which is when he let spill that he was only in the original corp to fleece them. It wasnt much later that he managed to steal a bunch of towers and all the kit for a lowsec mining setup and take it himself. Once this occurred i left the corp and joined his small operation and got into highsec ganking, and then the money started rolling in lol. And once my sec status was so bad i ended up in lowsec the proper PVP started and i then spent 4 years addicted to eve participating in large scale nullsec wars and fucking nail biting fleet battles.

  • @robd9413
    @robd9413 Рік тому

    In the middle of a video about an EVE Online scam was... an advert for EVE Online. Timing, as they say, is everything.😆

  • @JustFollowingOrdersYT
    @JustFollowingOrdersYT Рік тому +1

    Hey kids, take a shot everytime Frost says Space!

  • @briankrebs7534
    @briankrebs7534 Рік тому

    Surely I can trust this person who named themselves after Kali, the goddess of time, death, and doomsday.

  • @mariuspuiu9555
    @mariuspuiu9555 Рік тому

    20 years and counting of incredible Eve Online stories. o7

  • @Ultracity6060
    @Ultracity6060 Рік тому +1

    Stories about EVE Online could be a series in itself.

  • @snoozbuster
    @snoozbuster Рік тому

    They’re stories that’ve been told many times but I’d love to see an episode about the infamous WoW plague, or even runescape’s Falador Massacre.

  • @Zylock
    @Zylock Рік тому +1

    I absolutely love this series.

  • @VicStrange9
    @VicStrange9 Рік тому +2

    Man, that definition of EVE Online is also accurate if you want to describe Path of Exile, specially the part of second thankless job and useless degree on a made-up economy.

  • @LelouDX
    @LelouDX Рік тому

    This was a very accurate depiction of a thing that has happened in real life. Only difference is that the normal folks got recompensated and it was the richer folks that were left holding the bag. It's usually the opposite.

  • @haywardmiller7144
    @haywardmiller7144 Рік тому +1

    Another great video. Love this series.

  • @Philip_Taylor
    @Philip_Taylor Рік тому

    He apologised with less care than a friend knocking your pint at the pub would.

  • @CuriousMind477
    @CuriousMind477 Рік тому +1

    I remember hearing about this when it happened, and it still blows my mind

  • @ibuprofen-noodles
    @ibuprofen-noodles Рік тому

    the escapist more like the best channel

  • @ATakTakTak
    @ATakTakTak Рік тому

    I'm going to copy and paste the coment I left on the previous episode yesterday:
    I didn't realize there was a new episode of this series, I'm really really liking it but I think the thumbnails so far kind of blend in with most of the channels' videos. Whereas Zero Punctuation stands out with all the yellow I feel all the other series keep fighting each other for the purples and blues and greys. Maybe you could give this series, say, a green or an orange?
    Really really liking this series and today's episode, I'm looking forward to more stories I didn't know about.

  • @rodrigogarofalo7814
    @rodrigogarofalo7814 Рік тому

    Ooof frost climbing up that Escapist tier list....
    So glad to see the site found a groove and is no longer carried by Yhatzee (visual style excluded, but its a cool thing to borrow)

    • @theescapist
      @theescapist  Рік тому

      Whole video team has been trained on using it and it’s a lot of fun. Big unique selling point for us now

  • @Donishiwatheone
    @Donishiwatheone Рік тому +1

    I wish you could just read me bedtime stories. Love it

  • @MaztRPwn
    @MaztRPwn Рік тому +7

    I hope Eve players stay on the game and never get let loose into the real world...

  • @louisduarte8763
    @louisduarte8763 Рік тому +1

    1:17 Waitaminute, I've seen that ship in a totally different MMORPG: STAR WARS: The Old Republic! I haven't heard about anything unseemly in that game (which I haven't played in a few years).
    I also recall reading about this in an old CRACKED article about Dick Moves in Video Games (they have at least 7 of those), many entries of which happened in EVE online, strangely enough.

  • @AvianSavara
    @AvianSavara Рік тому

    Absolutely loving this series so far. Will you be covering other crazy moments like the Death of Lord British? (Richard Garriott)

  • @Lou-Mae
    @Lou-Mae Рік тому +8

    This series is reminding me of all the bizarre things I marvelled at as they were happening, in a bitesize format. I am enjoying it.
    Related note: I freaking *hate* EVE Online. What a horrible, depressing game.

  • @PolarBear543
    @PolarBear543 Рік тому

    Love the art on these videos

  • @bentobias737
    @bentobias737 Рік тому +1

    Oh my god he did an Enron.

  • @dragonfrog23
    @dragonfrog23 Рік тому +1

    I love this new series

  • @ReaperTheRager
    @ReaperTheRager Рік тому

    This would make one hell of a movie.

  • @thelazy0ne
    @thelazy0ne Рік тому +1

    Ah, yes! Paranoia Online best game ever. Chasing iskies, blowing stuff up and becoming fireworks yourself can be fun if your expectations are tailored to it.

  • @fissionphoenix4995
    @fissionphoenix4995 Рік тому +4

    I am curious whatever the detective went on to do after all that.

  • @Krushak8888
    @Krushak8888 Рік тому +1

    This was new one. I was around and helped with planning on getting a mole into anther corp and having them get enough power to disband their claim and their outpost went cold lol

  • @MrT3a
    @MrT3a Рік тому

    Love this format

  • @john-wiggains
    @john-wiggains Рік тому +1

    These are amazing. More please 😂

  • @The_Brainsturgeon
    @The_Brainsturgeon Рік тому

    There was another EVE Online story about a disgruntled guy who scammed one of the largest corporations out off billions of ISC, with the promise of the scematics for the (at the time) one of the largest warships. I could remember that in the story he and a friend set up a chat session with several alt accounts asking al kinds of critical questions to make the whole ruse more believable, and the guy giving that corp CEO the land line number of a local library phone to talk to him directly.

  • @Ev1lsp00n
    @Ev1lsp00n Рік тому +1

    EVE is full of these stories! :D That's what makes it so great...... even if CCPs new overlords are dragging it down with Pay-to-play mechanics.... overall, the massive player base fight back, and make new stories!

  • @KhalainBear
    @KhalainBear Рік тому

    Great video but one bit at the beginning was a bit misleading for people not yet familiar with EVE you cannot "build your ship from the ground up" you cannot design the hull in any way whatsoever, only decide what fittings (weapons, armour, shields etc) will go onto a ship.

  • @brez642
    @brez642 Рік тому +2

    hope one day we get one of these on the classic Falador Massacre. never forget 6/6/06

  • @parmesanzero7678
    @parmesanzero7678 Рік тому

    What surprises me is that he didn’t just cash out.

  • @Beutimus
    @Beutimus Рік тому +1

    That was amazing on a level I didn't even realize.

  • @DMBLaan
    @DMBLaan Рік тому

    Another AMAZING internet speaking voice! Right up there with Cinema Snob!

  • @emmetthill6964
    @emmetthill6964 Рік тому

    I didn't realize Frost was working for this channel until today... but I guess I have to subscribe now.