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Like many serious gamers, he began routinely purchasing virtual gold pieces and other desirables from Chinese gold farmers-young professional players in Asia who accumulated virtual weapons and armor to sell to busy American and European buyers.įor Richard, the game was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin his own high-tech start up-a venture that has morphed into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Corporation 9592, with its own super successful online role-playing game, T’Rain.

With plenty of time and money to burn, he became addicted to an online fantasy game in which opposing factions battle for power and treasure in a vast cyber realm. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune. Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft.