$1300 for an in-game item?
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Posted on: 2011-11-25 13:13 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
For an MMO I never heard of, I find the idea of 65million registered accounts to be interresting.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
For an MMO I never heard of, I find the idea of 65million registered accounts to be interresting.
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| when I told one journalist this they said are you really saying that one in every hundred people on the planet is registered to play Dark Orbit? |
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And this is different from the guy that spent $330,000 to buy a virtual space station in 2009?
http://mashable.com/2009/12/31/cryst...-station-sale/
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I forgot about this. And wasn't this the second time that space station changed hands for big bucks? I vaguely recall the first big buyer paid 100K for it, so he made a profit.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And this is different from the guy that spent $330,000 to buy a virtual space station in 2009?
http://mashable.com/2009/12/31/cryst...-station-sale/ |
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Not sure about that but I think they owner of the space station can make money from people that use it's services. I think the virtual money can be turned into real cash somehow.
Virtual properties are only worth something if you can actually live in them. In fact, I see virtual properties being the home of the future. A basic place to live with room for a kitchen, dining room, and bedroom with no luxuries to sustain a person's physical needs and a virtual mansion that is dependent on the imagination of the person. All senses except pain is possible in the virtual world. Pain is possible, but only certain people use it to get a completely realistic experience. I can see this happening in our lifetimes. Also it is the only way for people to exist if we continue our self-destructive path. Can't go to the park in real life so it is necessary to go to a park in virtual life to smell the roses and have a picnic with your loved one.
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Have you ever thought that some people are just happier on-line? That maybe real life has screwed them over so many time's that they would just welcome something like that? I know that I would.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
Virtual properties are only worth something if you can actually live in them. In fact, I see virtual properties being the home of the future. A basic place to live with room for a kitchen, dining room, and bedroom with no luxuries to sustain a person's physical needs and a virtual mansion that is dependent on the imagination of the person. All senses except pain is possible in the virtual world. Pain is possible, but only certain people use it to get a completely realistic experience. I can see this happening in our lifetimes. Also it is the only way for people to exist if we continue our self-destructive path. Can't go to the park in real life so it is necessary to go to a park in virtual life to smell the roses and have a picnic with your loved one.
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Until virtual worlds can replicate the taste and smell of delicious food or be able to smell roses, then they are still inferior to the real world. No matter the person's situation.|
Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Have you ever thought that some people are just happier on-line? That maybe real life has screwed them over so many time's that they would just welcome something like that? I know that I would.
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Also, I believe that most people that play MMOs would welcome such a virtual environment.
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Nah, if I rent it out for virtual money which I can then convert to real world money, it has plenty of value even if I never step one virtual foot into it.|
Originally Posted by starphoenix
Virtual properties are only worth something if you can actually live in them.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
Virtual properties are only worth something if you can actually live in them. In fact, I see virtual properties being the home of the future. A basic place to live with room for a kitchen, dining room, and bedroom with no luxuries to sustain a person's physical needs and a virtual mansion that is dependent on the imagination of the person. All senses except pain is possible in the virtual world. Pain is possible, but only certain people use it to get a completely realistic experience. I can see this happening in our lifetimes. Also it is the only way for people to exist if we continue our self-destructive path. Can't go to the park in real life so it is necessary to go to a park in virtual life to smell the roses and have a picnic with your loved one.
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This reminds me of that Bruce Willis movie Surrogates....while liberating it is also very frightening.....
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That follow up is the important part. Those people didn't actually pay 1000 for those (well not most of them anyway, there always may be a nutter or 2). They spent the equivalent in in-game currency, most of which they earned in-game.|
Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
Bigpoint sells 2,000 Spaceship drones for 1000 Euros each in just 4 days.
Note: their follow up mentions that the item is bought with an amount of in-game currency that's equivalent to 1000 Euros real money (which is purchaseable at variable rates or earnable in game). |
In the game EVE there are plenty of corporations (guilds) and even players who have thousands of dollars worth of in-game currency in in-game assets, sometimes a good deal more than that. They didn't buy all that stuff with real money (not counting their subscription) they just earned it in-game.
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Well in EVE a similar amount of real money was destroyed in battle.
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Is this a good time to page UniqueDragon? This sounds like the 'gone to the americans' thing, a little bit...
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Originally Posted by TrueMetal
That follow up is the important part. Those people didn't actually pay €1000 for those (well not most of them anyway, there always may be a nutter or 2). They spent the equivalent in in-game currency, most of which they earned in-game.
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Little nuggets of MMO trivia like this sound fun when you say them fast but otherwise are pretty silly.
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Bigpoint sells 2,000 Spaceship drones for 1000 Euros each in just 4 days.
Note: their follow up mentions that the item is bought with an amount of in-game currency that's equivalent to 1000 Euros real money (which is purchaseable at variable rates or earnable in game).
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