A Gamer Has Spent $26,500 on Virtual Property

08-03-2005, 12:57 AM

A 22-year-old gamer has spent
$26,500 (￡13,700) on an island that exists
only in a computer role-playing game (RPG).

The Australian gamer, known only by his
gaming moniker Deathifier, bought
the island in an online auction.

The land exists within in a RPG which allows
thousands of players to interact
with each other.The virtual island includes
a gigantic abandoned castle and
beautiful beaches which are described as ripe
for developing beachfront property.

According to Game Money Research(*removed url) ,a virtual currency price
research site,this is almost
the biggest transaction in the virtual
world untill now.

"This is a historic moment in gaming history,
and this sale only goes to
prove that massive multi-player online gaming
has reached a new plateau,"
someone said.

SiFi · 08-03-2005, 02:24 AM

buh.....wha......instead of what? A new gaming rig? A new car? For something that might get wiped out by a server crash? If he wanted to throw that money away he could have given it to me!

EDIT: Unless this is meaningless attention spam. Too tired right now to tell the difference.

Cerberus · 08-03-2005, 06:15 AM

Yeah, but now he can charge other people to build on his property, and make back his money plus some maybe.

Variable · 08-03-2005, 06:19 AM

...Deathifier?

I was always under the impression that people named thusly weren't allowed to work in the real world, lest they infect others. Your in-game moniker is like a window to your very soul. What kind of mindset do you have to be in at the character creation screen when you type Deathifier and reflect to yourself "yeah...that's the good stuff!"

I know the rest of the article should make me shake my head, but man, he can do whatever he wants with his money. That doesn't concern me. But I have to read that name...and every time a tiny part of me dies.

Ghryphen · 08-03-2005, 08:49 AM

By the formatting of text, the username, the email address, and the fact that it revolves around game gold, this looks smells like spam to me, so he is getting the boot and I am moving this to the proper forum.

I like the quote author at the end of the message.

However I believe the story is true, or at least a true spoof. It revolves aroud the game Project Entropia http://www.project-entropia.com which has a real cash economy.

Stang · 08-03-2005, 04:42 PM

Yay he's in debt all ready!!! Hes on the way to a perfect future!

Gambit · 08-03-2005, 06:31 PM

...Or at least a typical one.

STUWEY · 08-05-2005, 02:09 PM

http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1457

Raiyven · 08-07-2005, 09:55 PM

But...but...uwwaaaahhhhhh WHY?! why, my god, WHY?! Great Caesar's Ghost, it's like someone spending money to buy Ben Stein's personality. Neither it or this 'real estate' exist ;p

Hmm... would that make it un-real estate? unreal estate? a house where guys run around and curse as they shoot rockets at you? or is it like being undead, where you're neither dead or alive? a house that craves brains and loses parts of itself. now THAT is something i'd pay money to see.

SiFi · 08-08-2005, 03:48 AM

....except that it's not a house, it's an island

Stang · 08-08-2005, 04:19 PM

08-03-2005, 12:57 AM	#1
thzclan-7 Guest Posts: n/a	A Gamer Has Spent $26,500 on Virtual Property A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (￡13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG). The Australian gamer, known only by his gaming moniker Deathifier, bought the island in an online auction. The land exists within in a RPG which allows thousands of players to interact with each other.The virtual island includes a gigantic abandoned castle and beautiful beaches which are described as ripe for developing beachfront property. According to Game Money Research(*removed url) ,a virtual currency price research site,this is almost the biggest transaction in the virtual world untill now. "This is a historic moment in gaming history, and this sale only goes to prove that massive multi-player online gaming has reached a new plateau," someone said.

08-03-2005, 02:24 AM	#2
SiFi Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ([]*[])The Frozen North Age: 42 Posts: 230	buh.....wha......instead of what? A new gaming rig? A new car? For something that might get wiped out by a server crash? If he wanted to throw that money away he could have given it to me! EDIT: Unless this is meaningless attention spam. Too tired right now to tell the difference. __________________ Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent -Dionysius of Halicarnassus

08-03-2005, 06:15 AM	#3
Cerberus One bad mofo'n Hound Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Your Mom's House Age: 47 Posts: 1,319	Yeah, but now he can charge other people to build on his property, and make back his money plus some maybe. __________________ Tribes:Ascend Play it today for free

08-03-2005, 06:19 AM	#4
Variable Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Augusta, GA Age: 42 Posts: 245	...Deathifier? I was always under the impression that people named thusly weren't allowed to work in the real world, lest they infect others. Your in-game moniker is like a window to your very soul. What kind of mindset do you have to be in at the character creation screen when you type Deathifier and reflect to yourself "yeah...that's the good stuff!" I know the rest of the article should make me shake my head, but man, he can do whatever he wants with his money. That doesn't concern me. But I have to read that name...and every time a tiny part of me dies. __________________ The world will not end in a blinding flash of light or virulent pestilence. It will end with me choking the life out of it with my bare hands.

08-03-2005, 08:49 AM	#5
Ghryphen THZ Founder Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,927	By the formatting of text, the username, the email address, and the fact that it revolves around game gold, this looks smells like spam to me, so he is getting the boot and I am moving this to the proper forum. I like the quote author at the end of the message. However I believe the story is true, or at least a true spoof. It revolves aroud the game Project Entropia http://www.project-entropia.com which has a real cash economy. __________________ The Hounds of Zeus \| Allied Tribal Forces

08-03-2005, 04:42 PM	#6
Stang Team Captain Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Everett, WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,859 Xbox Leaderboard: 1^st	Yay he's in debt all ready!!! Hes on the way to a perfect future! __________________

08-03-2005, 06:31 PM	#7
Gambit Forum wh0re Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: DFW area, TX Posts: 744	...Or at least a typical one. __________________ XMEN member Card-carrying DTM OKL Fish-napper Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained. -The Tao of Programming

08-05-2005, 02:09 PM	#8
STUWEY Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Right behind you Age: 41 Posts: 242	http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1457

08-07-2005, 09:55 PM	#9
Raiyven Big Bad Thread Boogeyman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Burlington, ON. Age: 42 Posts: 406	But...but...uwwaaaahhhhhh WHY?! why, my god, WHY?! Great Caesar's Ghost, it's like someone spending money to buy Ben Stein's personality. Neither it or this 'real estate' exist ;p Hmm... would that make it un-real estate? unreal estate? a house where guys run around and curse as they shoot rockets at you? or is it like being undead, where you're neither dead or alive? a house that craves brains and loses parts of itself. now THAT is something i'd pay money to see. __________________ "For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks." - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)

08-08-2005, 03:48 AM	#10
SiFi Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ([]*[])The Frozen North Age: 42 Posts: 230	....except that it's not a house, it's an island __________________ Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent -Dionysius of Halicarnassus

08-08-2005, 04:19 PM	#11
Stang Team Captain Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Everett, WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,859 Xbox Leaderboard: 1^st	__________________

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