Or if you want to get truly recursive, we had at least one person in our Eve corporation who played Eve to make Eve money which he sold to get real money which he then used to buy Eve time cards which he used to pay his subscriptions to play Eve so he could make Eve money to...
People also sell rare Eve ship modules (or even ships) or experienced characters for realworld cash - totally against the game's user agreement (and they crucify anyone they catch doing it) but it does happen.
There are also rumours of people (mostly Russians) using (in-game) illegal macros to do absentee-mining and selling the ore to make in-game money which they then sell to make worthwhile amounts of real money. Again, they crack down on them if they catch them, but with 10k people on line at a time, it must be hard to get them all.
Of course one could also claim Eve money - "isk" - *is* real money - if you doubt me, go look up the list of currencies available in MS Excel... (*grin* and yes I know the actual reason it's there!)
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People also sell rare Eve ship modules (or even ships) or experienced characters for realworld cash - totally against the game's user agreement (and they crucify anyone they catch doing it) but it does happen.
There are also rumours of people (mostly Russians) using (in-game) illegal macros to do absentee-mining and selling the ore to make in-game money which they then sell to make worthwhile amounts of real money. Again, they crack down on them if they catch them, but with 10k people on line at a time, it must be hard to get them all.
Of course one could also claim Eve money - "isk" - *is* real money - if you doubt me, go look up the list of currencies available in MS Excel... (*grin* and yes I know the actual reason it's there!)