Real Life Cash Card Launched To Access Your Virtual Money

Izeickl writes "The BBC is reporting that "A real world cash card that allows gamers to spend money earned in a virtual universe has been launched. Gamers can use the card at cash machines around the world to convert virtual dollars into real currency. The card is offered by the developers of Project Entropia, an online role-playing game that has a real world cash economy.""

Comments

Wow...

[kitsunewarlock]

This is...just...horrible... The fact people would waste real money to go to a "virtual club" to waste time in a game that could be spent doing stuff like hunting animals for real money (another enjoyable experience of the game) is just...sad...

One word:

[Spy der Mann]

Bubble.

Now we are all in trouble!

[Anon-Admin]

So let me get this right, real money and game money are interchangeable.

So you knock up your virtual girl friend, she gets pregnant and has a kid, costing you $25,000 real dollars for a virtual hospital, virtual delivery room, and virtual doctors. Then they slowly drain your bank with virtual housing, virtual food, virtual birth days, virtual college, etc. Pretty soon you are broke, mowing your virtual lawn, around your virtual house and listening to the virtual wife bi*ch at you about what a looser you are. All the time sitting in your real apartment with no money because it virtually vanished right before your eyes.

This is what the future will be like:

[Anonymous Coward]

1000 years from now. A customer inquires of a merchant:

Customer: Do you take visa?

Merchant: Visa hasn't existed for 900 years.

Customer: Do you take American Express?

Merchant: American Express hasn't existed for 750 years.

Customer: Do you take Entropia?

Merchant: We don't take Entropia.

Re:Form 1040 VR

[dietrollemdefender]

I'd expect the real reason notice is being paid is the potential for money laundering.

What would be cool, is a virtual underworld that can create real money. Then, I can use my flight simulator and become a virtual smuggler! Of course, I'd have to get the "Drug runner/Smuggler" add-on package for Flight Simulator.

Already been done ...

[operagost]

We already have fantasy worlds where one plays games for funny money and cashes it in for real money-- it's called a casino! And most of the women are actually female! And attractive!

Here's a bet nobody will hold

[Opportunist]

I bet it doesn't take a day before the first virtual hooker offers his (yes, HIS. NO matter what sex the avatar has) service.