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November 29, 2005 at 12:18 pm
· Filed under Games, Yuna
If you think this whole pixel business is crazy, wait until you see what this dude did. Jon Jacob just spent $100,000 on a virtual space station in a game called “Project Entropia” (Teleporters map shown below). Earlier this year, David Storey spent $26,500 buying Treasure Island , a private piece of virtual land in Project Entropia.
I have never heard of this game, but I know for a fact that a lot of people are spending handsome cash on the virtual armors and weapons to advance in “World of WarCraft” or “Final Fantasy XI”. You can get 2 million Gils (currency in FF series) for 38 bucks and 500 pieces of World or WarCraft gold for $47.
I don’t exactly know how these businesses work by selling virtually nothing in exchange for real currency. But whoever gets the ins and outs of the business such as IGE.com can truly make themselves rich instantaneously without invest much.
Too many of us are working days and nights for a tiny paycheck while there are those creative thinkers breaking new grounds of economy everyday.
There are billions of possibilities on the Internet! I am curious to see what’s gonna happen 10 years from now. Maybe we would all have two different lives, one in a real world and another in a virtual reality world! Good God! Finally the guys can test the water to see how it is like to live as a woman!
Thanks to RJ for the link.
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Kris said,
November 30, 2005 @ 11:22 am
Some of the folks in my office actually paid people to play (level up) their characters on Warcrack. Buying virutal gold wiht real money is halarious, but I doubt nothing beats actually paying people to play your video games.
Yuna said,
November 30, 2005 @ 2:31 pm
oh my gosh.. for real? HIRE ME! I can kick major ass in the fighting games!! I dont charge much, just my usual consulting fee…like.. umm… 250 bucks an hour??
chalk abuser said,
December 1, 2005 @ 8:20 am
NPR just did a feature on spending real money for virtual goods…it’s pretty interesting what people will do with their disposable (or not) income. It also brings to light the new market for real fraud to be perpetrated via the virtual world. I’m not a gamer, so it’s absolutely astounding to me that such markets and schemes exist, but if i think about it in terms of what choices I make regarding my hobbies and income (gear gear gear!), I can see how lucrative the market is.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5032947
Yuna said,
December 2, 2005 @ 12:07 am
The MMORPGs community is getting so big that people do actually have a separate identify on the Internet now. And like in real world, they will do anything to gain a territory and advance ahead of others. I probably would be really tempted to spend real money if I am ever into WoW. I am glad I rock climb instead.. but … wait.. our gears are costing us hundreds if not thousands… That’s way more expensive than buying 300 gold pieces…
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