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Actually, I am surprised no one has been sued in court because they stole an object or slew someone close to attaining said object based on the loss of the income potential of said object on Ebay.
You know something like this is coming one day. A person will form a company into which people invest real money in order to pay and outfit the person and their employees to attain objects that are sold on Ebay for a return on investment.
They will reason that even though one of the design elements of the game allows you to play a thief, the fact that theft has in game reprecussions equivalent to the real world based on laws developed in game signifies that it is viewed as immoral in the game as it is in real life.
As a result, either the thief should pay resistution as if they stole a real item of value (vs one comprised of 1s and 0s) or the game authorities, having apprehended the thief, should extract items and gold from the thief and sell them transfering the equivalent money to the stock company.
While the first of such cases may not get any traction, you know that eventually someone with enough money will get into a situation where the right lawyer with the right prescendent will argue in the right court.
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