Top 6 Online Gaming Incidents. Just Wait Until Organized Crime Moves In.

I’ll never understand why the media and gaming outsiders are surprised by anything that happens in-game or by the weird game-related incidents that happen out-of-game. Especially as games get better and move toward open world exploration and open-ended invention (like scripting new events and motions in Wow or Second Life) people are going to do everything in-game that they can do outside of it.

That’s why this list of the 6 most unusual online gaming incidents doesn’t surprise me at all. Kidnapping and real-world murder happen for all sorts of bent reasons. Why not for in-game “theft” or to steal an valuable game account ($8,000 is almost three times Brazilians’ average annual income of $2,830)?

As for the Belgian police investigating an in-game crime … the police make all sorts of dumb mistakes too. I can’t wait to see what happens when they have to take on the “virtual” Russian mafia or other international organized criminals. Keep checking Fark to see how that goes.