$69,696.00 USD for a virtual item

Source: Player Purchased a Virtual Egg for $69,696.00 USD

Can you believe that? A virtual Egg can be sold for a stunning $69,696.00 USD. It just happened in Planet Calypso, a MMOG that used to announce the sale of a Space Station for $330,000. Sequence of the Egg sale is as follow:

Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs held a public auction Sunday, inside Planet Calypso, and sold the Virtual Egg to David Storey aka Deathifier. Deathifier owns "Treasure Island" in the game, a tax generating Virtual World Destination. NEVERDIE purchased the Virtual Egg for $10,000 USD in 2006 from a gamer who completed a unique quest. The Final Chapter in the Egg's History has yet to be written as thousands of players speculate what will actually hatch from the it and if it will be worth the extraordinary price tag.

$330,000 for a virtual Space Station! $69,696.00 for a virtual Egg! Are they insane?

Never heard of the game.GhoX

yea me neither

maybe its like those countries only really rich people know about and vacation to.

I hate mmo that encourage people to dig in for items and loots....come to think of it, which mmo doesnt?

If I was one of the developers, I'd make that egg hatch a chicken that does nothing.

And is annoying at the least convenient times.

I bet it hatches and inside is another egg.

Your all quick to call the idea retarded but say if you were these guys and looked at it like a business venture the guy who bought this makes huge amounts of money in this and if he converted back to cash he would almost be a millionare read about it before you judge it this guy could make a killing.

Well the first guy payed 10 grand for it, and sold it for nearly 70 grand. Maybe this guy knows for a fact he can turn a profit with it. Don't be such haters guys.

Well the first guy payed 10 grand for it, and sold it for nearly 70 grand. Maybe this guy knows for a fact he can turn a profit with it. Don't be such haters guys.

howlrunner13

is it like project entropia? a real world economy? if u have a lot of money u can make a big profit on those games.

is it like project entropia? a real world economy? if u have a lot of money u can make a big profit on those games

PcGamingRig

It IS entropia, they closed it down and reopened it with a new name using cryengine 2. It still looks really bad for cryengine 2 though.

I smell online suckers. Think I'll join and sell a virtual bridge.

Well I feel a bit sad how somebody paid twice the value of my car (Mitsubishi Evo X) for a dumb little virtual egg.

And my car doesn't even have leather seats...(but it has a mini drink cooler!)

Holy Jaysus! Crazy Rich people :P

This reminds me of the time this kid sawed up his best friend due to the fact that his buddy owed him "in-game" money. His friend could not pay it back to him so he sawed his friend into 6 sections, including decapitation. He got caught because his mom walked in on him dragging his body into the addict. Not really the same thing, but it just proves the extremes some people go with these games. I will try to find the article if anyone is interested in it. Though it does show very gruesome pictures.millerlight89

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]This reminds me of the time this kid sawed up his best friend due to the fact that his buddy owed him "in-game" money. His friend could not pay it back to him so he sawed his friend into 6 sections, including decapitation. He got caught because his mom walked in on him dragging his body into the addict. Not really the same thing, but it just proves the extremes some people go with these games. I will try to find the article if anyone is interested in it. Though it does show very gruesome pictures.Bigsteve3570

Ok guys i have the link. It was not decapitation. I am not too sure where I got that lol. Though it is a very brutal image. I will link you to the forum it is on. If you really want to see a horrid picture click on the show button that is in the first post.

Ok guys i have the link. It was not decapitation. I am not too sure where I got that lol. Though it is a very brutal image. I will link you to the forum it is on. If you really want to see a horrid picture click on the show button that is in the first post.

millerlight89

I call shennanigans on that tale as the age of the victim and the murderer seem to change a few times... Wouldn't be the first time someone found a gross picture and made up a story to go with it. Also, there's no word of the story on any reputable news sites. With the video-game related nature you'd think they would be all over it.

Thus, my detective skills call shenanigans.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]

Ok guys i have the link. It was not decapitation. I am not too sure where I got that lol. Though it is a very brutal image. I will link you to the forum it is on. If you really want to see a horrid picture click on the show button that is in the first post.

wraithbladeuk

I call shennanigans on that tale as the age of the victim and the murderer seem to change a few times... Wouldn't be the first time someone found a gross picture and made up a story to go with it. Also, there's no word of the story on any reputable news sites. With the video-game related nature you'd think they would be all over it.

Thus, my detective skills call shenanigans.

[QUOTE="wraithbladeuk"]

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]

Ok guys i have the link. It was not decapitation. I am not too sure where I got that lol. Though it is a very brutal image. I will link you to the forum it is on. If you really want to see a horrid picture click on the show button that is in the first post.

millerlight89

I call shennanigans on that tale as the age of the victim and the murderer seem to change a few times... Wouldn't be the first time someone found a gross picture and made up a story to go with it. Also, there's no word of the story on any reputable news sites. With the video-game related nature you'd think they would be all over it.

Thus, my detective skills call shenanigans.

At the start of the story the murderer is 16 and the victim is 12. By the end, the murderer is 12 and the victim is 10. Also, as i said, the only websites on the interwebs that have this story are the forum you posted and another forum, no news sites or anything. The story is credited as having happened early last year, so i think it would have been publicised a lot more. Thus, Shenanigans :P

That Saw story sounds to unreal. Only stooges would pay 70 grand for an egg that probably does nothing. Its like buying a phone that dousnt call. Or a tv that dousnt show anything. Some people......some people :| Hopefully the egg turns into a omlette at least and feeds his virtual man dinner. Or turns into a chicken that eats all the people.

This kind of thing makes me feel better when I buy something and think I over payed or spent too much. I can say to myself, "Well at lest it wasn't $70 000 on a stupid virtual egg." :)

I think the worse part is that I NEVER even heard of this game!!!! Anywhom, I still remember this dude's maple account was worth about 5k and his gf tries to get his PW, but hes very protective about it. So she tricked into somewhere where her friends beated up on him for hours, but he still refused and relentless :P hardcore. Still ^^^ the other story sounds sicker T.T

Talk about having no life at all.

I used to play Entropia Universe, or now called Planet Calypso. Was a great game until VU 10 came out.

I find this to really be surprising. I mean that much money on a virtual item. But hey, I am not going to judge.

Reading about this game on wikipedia is depressing. It's one of those MMOs that basically simulates life and sucks up all of your time.F1_2004

I smell a marketing ploy.

Definitely a marketing scheme going on here. "Oh, this game must be so good that a player was willing to pay $69k for an in-game item."

Why would people spend that much money on something that doesn't exist.Pvt_r3d

Well I feel a bit sad how somebody paid twice the value of my car (Mitsubishi Evo X) for a dumb little virtual egg.

And my car doesn't even have leather seats...(but it has a mini drink cooler!)

k0r3aN_pR1d3

Owned. My Lancer has leather seats.

Must be nice to be rich, or more like stupid. But hey, its not my money, so more power to them, although giving that money to me would have been more beneficial (to me at least). :)

I smell a marketing ploy.

tonberry007

WOW... heres me struggling to find a good paying job, and someone shells out 70 grand for a virtual item, how do you explain that waste of money to any rational human being.Too_tight_shoes

well thats the symptoms of a severely outdated system. hopefully the rest of the country will realize that, hopefully the whole of humanity will as well.

we (the world) are in times where we need to do some serious re-evaluating.... and serious system over-hauls.. need entirely new ones.