Don't Steal From Your Family

Its really sad reading something like this but im not surprised, not the first time something like this has happend, and if any of you are doing similar and havent been cought please stop, totally doesnt make you cool to steal from family members to enjoy the game.

If this story gets published, more families will be conscious of this happening to them. With media coverage there is a chance someone might give free medical treatment to the grandfather.
Just tossing in the dark..

Sick Sick Sick if anyone would ever steal from there Grandma or parents at all are sick Fricken ppl and they should get banned from all MMOS ppl like that make me realy sick and should be in jail, spoiled demented kids, whatever happend to haveing respect to elders idk but its realy disheartening to see that there are kids out there that would do that, hope ppl like that rot in jail, no more MMOS for you idiot! its say hello to bubba and his friends and make you squeal like a pig.

This is a sad story, but it is also sadly reflective of many issues that young gamers have yet to realise.

Gaming can be an addiction, but it is not a common problem. What makes cases like this become reality is the availability of money. Everyone -- not just kids -- has something they want. What makes people different from each other is how they manage their money, and this is where the distinction between adults and minors is clearer than anything. A young person can show maturity, but until they begin working and begin understanding what the value of money is, money is just a figure to them. When there's no attachment to the figure, there is no responsibility. Money, and in some cases life, is just a game to people.

What complicates the problem is the development of online transactions. Before the internet, the best a kid could do was pickpocket their parent's wallet. Now that many services charge via credit card, some parents trust their kids with their credit cards for apparently legitimate purposes. The problem is simple: you never give someone else your credit card. It's easy to point the finger and laugh, but some parents are naive enough to trust their kids with a responsibility they cannot comprehend. If kids want to pay for an online game, I'd hope they're working for it, and I'd hope the parents pay themselves instead of trusting their kid to do it. Sadly, parents tend to be clueless to the change in technology and the way things work in the 21st century, where the younger generation can adapt quicker to changes than their elders.

The issues shown in this case have many facets. Gaming addiction may be part of the problem, but the greater issue is how we entrust children with responsibilities they cannot yet understand -- and some that the elders cannot understand.

^That's exactly the sort of thinking that leads to incidents like this. If you "can't believe" this sort of thing could happen, you'd better believe it. This is what our kids will do if give them the chance.

OMG you have to be a completely heartless creep to steal money from an old woman with a sick husband, and even more so when its your own grandmother. I hope in the very least that the jerk gets banned, but he should probably seek some sort of counseling as well, anyone that repeatedly spends that much money for a game has got some problems, not to mention a serious lack of morals for stealing from a little old ladyb:angryb:angryb:angry

b:cry i'd wish i could get my hands on that guy b:angry

(btw darthpanda, i nicked your sig for my msn avy )

Yea stealing from your grandmother, low thats just low....... I'm 15 and I dj for $8 a day (Only is 45minutes) and thats how i earn my cash, BUT to steal from family for a GAME....thats just low....hope his account got the ban hammer.

That...actually made me cry...=( Poor Old Lady. I just wanna hug her up now. Sorry to the GMs for having to go through this, you all are people too with feelings...People don't see that though. I hope that kid gets bent over his grandma's knee and gets a few swats with a tobacco switch.

To me, the saddest thing is the betrayal of trust. You know, I've been seeing people calling for crimnal charges, etc etc but the worst part of it, IMO is regardless of what happens and whether or not he "deserves" the punishment or not, whether the grandmother gets the money back or not, and even if she forgives him, the pain and sadness that she got the from the entire incident, not to mention the fact that she cannot trust her grandson anymore is perhaps, the worst part of it.

brovar wrote: »

Well.. shouldn't the PWE be happy about that? I mean, its money, yay!

Stealing from others in such a way is not okay. PWE does want to grow which is only possible by getting money into the company but not through such ways! The GM's are humans too and do you really think they would have liked that done to their grandparents? Just put yourself in reverse position here what if it were you in the same position as the "old lady"? Getting betrayed like that from your own family hurts. It is not just the money but the lose of trust!

shnuggles wrote: »

And we read the forums too :P

Woah....another GM I've never seen before, this time on the forums. b:laugh