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Virtual Island Sells For $26,500
Aziphirael writes "The MMORPG Project Entropia has just announced that its first treasure island sale via Auction has gone for a grand total of US$26,500. Project Entropia's unique selling point is the ability to convert real money into ingame cash and vice versa. The owner is Zachurm "Deathifier" Emegen who intends to develop the island into a place for the community." From the article: "A large island off a newly discovered continent surrounded by deep creature infested waters. The island boasts beautiful beaches ripe for developing beachfront property, an old volcano with rumors of fierce creatures within, the outback is overrun with mutants, and an area with a high concentration of robotic miners guarded by heavily armed assault robots indicates interesting mining opportunities."
SUCKER!
From the "I have more money than sense department"
Jeez, I hope they down shutdown the game's server. Then his island may as well be called Atlantis.
can move out of their parents basement!
but who in their right mind would spend $26K on a virtual world
I've got a virtual bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn.
It's sure to generate lots of revenue. It's for sale by auction, I expect to get at least $100,000FUD (equal to $100,000USD).
Seriously though, good luck to all the virtual real-estate agents out there.
Man Shoots himself in the head after realizing he wasted his entire retirement account savings on an "island" in a game which he now thinks is boring as hell.
More at 11.
... there is a sucker born every minute.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
...you are eaten by a grue. Game Over.
How much for just one island girl?
sounds like a wonderful place for me to open up my lemonade stand.
Virtual or not, if that's not a selling feature, I don't know what is.
Well when you say it like that, I think this purchase is starting to make sense...
Wait a second...
Nope, still makes no sense.
Let me see if I have this right:
(Virtual) Remote Island Location + Monster Infestation + Mutants + Active Volcano + Heavily Fortified Automated Mine = Prime Real-Estate at $26K USD
Only in a game.
I'd hate to see what the burned-out inner-cities of Entropia look like.
"The island boasts beautiful beaches ripe for developing beachfront property...<snip>"
Mr. "Deathifier" Emegen went on to describe his computer desk from which he does his online business. It is a large desk with newly discovered space underneath a pile of computer gaming magazines. The upper desk boasts a monitor rest with beautiful stacks of Mountain Dew cans ripe for recycling, an old arm lamp with rumors it once worked, and behind the desk described as an "outback" that is in desperate need of cable tying which is overrun with mutant horse flies, The house he inhabits has an area described as the "kitchen" in desperate need of the girlfriend who left it two years ago that indicates excellent penicillin mining opportunities.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
Right, but in order for him to realize a profit, there would have to be at least one person in the world dumb enough to pay thirty grand for a virtual plot of land. Oh, wait...
The comapny decided not to run the game any more.
well, of course PT Barnum never said that, mr pointdexter.
His lesser known brother Brad did, hence... BT Barnum.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Virtual island, meet hurricane Slashdot.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I bet it was Bill Gates.
Yes, Bill "Zachurm 'Deathifier' Emegen" Gates.
I need to start using a full name as my nickname.
While this whole real cash game economy seems like a really interesting experiment, I'm not sure how eager I'd be to invest that much money into something so ephemeral (I welcome all luddite allegations hurled my way... just because). I hope there's a user-friendly EULA with this game.
Honor Among Slackers. A veri
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I think it's more accurate to say he'll possibly make several customers look as foolish as he looks.
In the words of some comic I saw the other day:
Starving people in Africa, yeah, yeah...
We have deserts in the US too. WE JUST DON'T LIVE THERE!!!! MOVE OUT OF THE DESERT!!!
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AC, are you advocating cannabalism? I'm shocked. Shocked! I say.
See what I've been reading.
... to buying virtual wives from virtual Russia.
These aren't the sigs you're looking for.
I'm going to buy a virtual hurricane and wipe his island out...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
" Listen, lad. I built this virtual kingdom up from virtually nothing. When I started here, all there was virtual swamp. Other virtual kings said I was virtually daft to build a virtual castle on a virtual swamp, but I virtually built it all the same, just to show 'em. It virtually sank into the virtual swamp. So, I virtually built a second one. That virtually sank into the virtual swamp. So, I virtually built a third one. That virtually burned down, virtually fell over, then virtually sank into the virtual swamp, but the fourth one... virtually stayed up! And that's what you're virtually gonna get, virtual lad: virtually the strongest virtual castle in these virtual islands."
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I don't see this as much different than ETrade.