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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.
...you are eaten by a grue. Game Over.
sounds like a wonderful place for me to open up my lemonade stand.
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.
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
AC, are you advocating cannabalism? I'm shocked. Shocked! I say.
See what I've been reading.
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