Gaming Gifts For the Obscenely Rich

An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money's Game Over column offers suggestions for what to buy the obnoxiously rich gamer on your shopping list this year. Among the items mentioned are a $300,000 motion simulator and a 5.5 yard long monitor." Re: The Monitor - Gaaaaaaaaaah...

Comments

Might be pushing it a bit but...

[chaoaretasty]

How about a PC that can run Doom3 on maximum settings? Shouldn't cost more than a small Third World country.

"Obscenely Rich"?

[kasper37]

How rich does someone have to be to be "obscenely" rich? Better yet, where is the cutoff? At what point does the amount someone makes start to offend your sensibilities?

Here's a thought

[Anonymous Coward]

How about the obscenely rich buy their own goddamned luxury items?

You got that backwards

[mcSey921]

These are things an insanely rich gamer should by /me/. I'll buy him the same tie I got him last year.

Re: The Monitor

[Teh Suq]

From the About page on the L Store's website:

However, we are no longer in a position, from a financial standpoint, to continue doing business, meeting each of the high standards we have continually set for ourselves and for you, and are regrettably forced to suspend our operations and liquidate our assets in support of our financial responsibilities. Through our best abilities we are striving to fulfill all current orders, but we are no longer accepting new purchases for any of products.

TechStyle Keyboards

[sesshomaru]

Are partly wood and much cheaper than the wood contour stuff:

Techstyle

Sure the keys are plastic, but not all of us are Scrooge McDuck.

Wood? Stone?

[Otter]

Those things look godawful, anyway. Natural materials should be used in context; having an LCD glowing out of a wood frame is jarring, not natural. Cherry and granite are great, but in their place.

Geez, I sound like I've escaped from The Fountainhead...

Links to the gifts

[Numeric]

cherry, mahogany or sycamore wood PC
Stone PC
racing simulator
Motion Simulator
19200 x 2400 Pixel Monitor

How about a pre-modded Xbox

[Anonymous Coward]

complete with games preinstalled.

Not really for the super rich, but it will cost you for a lawyer and bail.

Re:How about a pre-modded Xbox

[captaincucumber]

moderately related story:

I spent Christmas with my girlfriend and her family a few years ago, and her older brother's gift to her younger brother was CDs full of pirated software. Probably a few thousand dollars worth. It was a seriously surreal moment, their mom made the usual noises, "oh, now isn't that a nice gift, be sure to say thank you", and the boy's face lit up with excitement as he read the titles that had been written on the CDs with a permanent marker.

Generosity like that brings tears to my eyes...

Richy Rich

[Aggrazel]

You know, i've found that the truly wealthy who actually earned their wealth would more than likely shun the idea of spending $300k on a monitor.

Probably most of the people buying this crap are either trust fund babies or lottery winners, in other words, people who have no real idea of the value of money.

Thats obscenely rich.

Re: The Monitor

[LordStraun]

From the front page of the L Store's website: (posted 11-16-2004 4 days after the information above)

As we have passed today the 1 million mark of support emails sent to us by all of you, Liebermann Inc. would like to announce it is entering final negotiation stages for possible borad large scale funding for a complete re-structuring of its corporate structure and product line that includes plans for the simultaneous re-launch of both North American and European operations and the possible opening of three retails stores in the cities of Los Angeles, New York City, and London, UK in the months ahead. Liebermann Inc. will soon be opening a global forums space that can be accessed directly via our homepage to collect your ideas, opinions, input and comments and serve as a worldwide area of discussion to all of what you want us to become and the products you would like to see developed. Equally Liebermann Inc. will be posting updates as to the terms and results of it's current funding negotiations and would like to state that no matter the result and possible new large scale corporate entity it may become, it will unshakably remain and improve upon the unique spirit that millions of you have learned to love and admire. ....

Re: The Monitor

[DeeFresh]

I'm pretty sure Go-L.com has never been in a position to do any business. From what I have read, the company is a complete fraud. Here's a message board discussion with some more links about it: http://armbrustconsulting.com/forums/viewtopic.php ?p=603#603