Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land

[Wotan]

A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG).

[wombatt]

[Regular]

I miss being a virgin.

[BUG_EAF322]

well

[Kirin]

Hmm - maybe he is not as stupid as it sounds first :

Earlier this year economists calculated that these massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have a gross economic impact equivalent to the GDP of the African nation of Namibia.

Deathifier will make money from his investment as he is able to tax other gamers who come to his virtual land to hunt or mine for gold.

Almost 200,000 people are registered players on Project Entropia.

Sounds like some good economic potential! Already today there are HC gamers that level characters for cash and can live by doing that!

[RTSigma]

Ummm, most likely Almost 200,000 fat, sweaty, jean shorted and black D&D shirt clad men will be going to his island. No chicks.

Money sorridly blown.

[JB73]

T3H Funn4Y:

Earlier this year economists calculated that these massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have a gross economic impact equivalent to the GDP of the African nation of Namibia.

[stiehl]

Originally posted by RTSigma
Ummm, most likely Almost 200,000 fat, sweaty, jean shorted and black D&D shirt clad men will be going to his island. No chicks.

Money sorridly blown.

So..if you add "old" to that description it would fit most flight-sim players

[storch]

The very first and arguably worst economic depression on record occurred in holland and it was caused by the collapse of an economy based on......the inflated value of tulip bulbs.  This occurred between 1634 and 1637.  Tulips had been recently introduced from Turkey and the novelty of the flower made it valuable.  A non fatal virus attacked the bulbs causing an unpredictable but spectacular outburst of flaming color further increasing the value of the product.  The economic damage is hard to calculate in modern US$ but at it's peak otherwise sane people traded estates, land, homes, life's savings, you name it for a single tulip bulb.  At the bottom of the cycle tulips could be had for less than a potato.  When a few people (who probably soon thereafter moved to America, speculation on my part) wised up and started selling and capitalizing it started a selling trend and soon there were few buyers.

Ahhh the whimsical nature of our european cousins.  

[Swoop]

Nah Storch, it's just the Cloggies.  No-one else could be that daft.

[AKIron]

Can The Matrix be far behind?


~Embrace the shadow~

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Originally posted by RTSigma
Ummm, most likely Almost 200,000 fat, sweaty, jean shorted and black D&D shirt clad men.

Funked comes to mind.

[rod367th]

hey these things pan out. I use to play poker at web site just to sell chips to guys who wanted to play in bigger free games. I use to get 200 dollars for every million of fake chips I sold. Cost me nothing to get play money but made good bucks for free lol.....



 Think about it they would pay me real money for free game chips. these chips had no value except to play larger free games.

[Widgeo]

I say we take some 24s and bomb that castle. Either that or storm it and take it by force.

[fman74]

RTSigma says:

"Ummm, most likely Almost 200,000 fat, sweaty, jean shorted and black D&D shirt clad men will be going to his island. No chicks."


You forgot, the jean shorts would be around thier ankles.