Sex, Crimes and Video Games....

[Vendrin]

From: Correct Link

An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.

Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.

The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.

But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.

Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris. [Folha Online (portuguese) - Thanks Diego]

[ThinkTank]

maybe he had a heart attack and nobody noticed?

[Souvarine]

to protect a GUNBOUND account??...that's close to rank #1 of the crappiest reason to die.

If you don't know what is gunbound, it's an ugly, older-than-thou concept of canon balls game (worms and older) where you just press arrows and spacebar to land bullets around. I know that because for a guild in Guild Wars, we used Gunbound as a rite of passage (to test the mental toughness of applicants)...if the guy could survive logging in to that game and actually went into the torment of manga 2 bit music and EGA graphics to play with us, that meant he was pretty damn motivated to join our guild.

The first time i actually logged into that game (i had to pass the rite as well), i had a clear printed over my face for the whole hour i've been there. Trust me, after playing that game, you feel unclean.

[Joos]

printed over my face for the whole hour i've been there. Trust me, after playing that game, you feel unclean.

I am sure all involved where all very dirty individuals.

[paazin]

Have a link to the actual story? Want to pass this around.

[NESchampion]

From:http://www.alandfaraway.org/phpbbforum/ ... wtopic&f=4

Your link is horribly wrong sir.

[Vendrin]

From:http://www.alandfaraway.org/phpbbforum/ ... wtopic&f=4

Your link is horribly wrong sir.

Apologies it was late. Correct link in the original post now.

[Souvarine]

Oh and by the way...Gunbound is as far from a RPG a game can be. It's an insult to roleplayers.