Good friend of Zen, and one of my favorite people to drink with is Dave Weinstein. He left the glamorous job of making games to go on to… scaring the hell out of people who make them. Here he is on CNN:

“Those of you who are working on massively multiplayer online games, organized crime is already looking at you,” said Dave Weinstein, a Microsoft security development engineer at the company’s Gamefest video game development conference.

As if I didn’t have enough problems, I have to worry about nerfing the Godfather’s Paladin.

“For a lot of the customers out there, there is more store value on their MMO characters than there is on the credit card with which they pay for the account,” said Weinstein…”The police are really good at understanding someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of money. It’s a lot harder to get them to buy into ’someone stole my magic sword.”‘

I always love imagining that fictional conversation.