Gamer makes a cool half-million by selling virtual property

gunslingingbird

gunslingingbird

Think the rent is, in fact, too damn high? Then stay as far away from online world Entropia Universe as possible, because its real estate prices will drive you insane.

Take, for instance, what just went down on Planet Calypso, where one of Entropia's wealthier players has sold off his interests in a "resort asteroid" for an eye-popping $635,000.

The seller is Jon Jacobs, also known as the character 'Neverdie'. He originally purchased the asteroid in 2005 -- eventually converting it into the extravagant resort 'Club Neverdie' -- for the then-record price of $100,000. For those keeping score, that's a gain of over $500,000 in just five years. In nerdier terms, that's an ROI of 535%. Match that, Citibank.
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Are you fucking serious?!? Why would you spend that much money on something that doesn't even exist?!? I wouldn't pay as much as the $19.95 monthly subscription charge to play one of these games, let alone hundreds of thousands of dollars for a virtual image on a server somewhere.

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~~whimsy~~

~~whimsy~~

People buy stupid shit that is real every single day. I'd sell something virtual for that much if someone offered to buy something I made. Hell, come on by, I have a bunch of Sims properties I would like to show that I made. Starting prices from $10,000 up to $50,000!
 
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24788

☼LEGIT☼
I hate games more and more everyday that are RPG style. I can only stand to play them for an hour at max now if I even do. I used to play 10 hours a day of Runescape back in the day, but now I haven't gamed in 5 days.

Getting black ops tomorrow.
 
gunslingingbird

gunslingingbird

~~whimsy~~ said:
People buy stupid shit that is real every single day. I'd sell something virtual for that much if someone offered to buy something I made. Hell, come on by, I have a bunch of Sims properties I would like to show that I made. Starting prices from $10,000 up to $50,000!
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Yes, but that's on the selling side. I would sell virtual shit if someone wanted to buy it. Would you pay that much money for something in a game, though?
 
StanScratch

StanScratch

My Penis Is Dancing!
That's a lot of money for something a programming glitch could probably gobble up in a couple of seconds.
 
Spreeuw

Spreeuw

This shows the complete removal of men from his production factors when the homo economicus becomes the norm... Hmm...
Money for the sake of generating more money, sounds like hybris to me...
 
xfire

xfire

New Twitter/X @cxffreeman
I loaded Diablo II up on my old Windows 98 machine a few weeks ago. I can remember playing for hours a day ten years ago. I made it to the second act and pretty much said fuck it. Total time in- maybe five hours. Anyone want to buy a level 23 barbarian? ha.
 
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LukeEl

I am a failure to the Korean side of my family
Yes but understand he had to go to my Virtual Administration for a Virtual Bailout.
 
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