EA Takes 15 Trillion Out Of Ultima Online

EA has removed 15 trillion gold pieces from the MMORPG Ultima Online, alongside over 180 player accounts associated with the (dirty) money. The money comes from in-game checks, which weren’t meant to exceed 1 million gold pieces. However, EA never monitored how much money players actually had. EA posted the following message on the official UO website:

“Recently, we discovered a large number of checks for amounts over one million gold pieces. Checks were never intended to exist in denominations of more than a million. Unfortunately, these inflated checks have been used by exploiters to store extremely large amounts of gold. These checks have now been removed from the game.”

Players are selling the gold pieces on eBay for around $2-3 per for one million. 15 trillion gold pieces is worth anywhere from $15 to $60 million.

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