This dude was selling Pokemans with modified move sets for up to $80 a pop and could now face up to 5 years in prison.

Is this not insane? Or do you think he could face a much less severe sentence and the 5 years prison and $30k just the upper limit for this particular set of crime?

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlOPM
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    6 months ago

    It’s just a strange situation overall. If you consider a player who meets the following criteria:

    • plays pokemon violet
    • is desperate to cheat in it
    • yet does not have the technical knowhow to do it themselves
    • is desperate enough to pay for it
    • know where to pay for it as a service

    The overlap according to my intuition at least feels incredibly small. Especially considering that you need either an emulator or a hacked and possibly modded Switch to make use of it.

    Yet this guy was committing this “”“crime”“” in enough volume to warrant an arrest. It’s just difficult to wrap the head around.

    I am guessing it was a situation sinilar to what mobile game companies call “whales” where a few players spend an inordinate amount of money for reasons incomprehensible to most people.