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At the end of 2025, a guy who had been playing notorious space MMO, spreadsheet-in-disguise, and corporate espionage sim EVE Online for just six months basically got a $7,000 ship out of nowhere⁠. After a brief, agonizing period in which he might have been lowballed or otherwise thwarted like a Coen Brothers character sitting on a hot score, this player sold the goods. He's now living like a dark future king, even paying for his own subscription to EVE with his instant fortune.

As a dumb guy, I can best understand EVE Online's Titan-class Molok as a classic car that's too valuable to drive, the EVE equivalent of a priceless Ferrari you'd see in Jay Leno's garage.…