That egg would make one delicious virtual omelet. Or an awesome virtual dinosaur pet | |
It's obvious that nursing is not where the money is. I've got to rethink my life. | |
How many people play Planet Calypso? Once you have that value, which we will call "Dave," just plug it into this formula: Chance of Making Money (%) = Number of people who made money in Calypso / Dave x 100 There's your chance. | |
So wait, When it hatches it will be some kind of Alien Queen? Where was Weyland-Yutani when this deal was going down?! | |
I honestly do not like the idea of real money intruding on online games at all, other than membership fees. Otherwise it rapidly comes down to who you are in real life, rather than what you do in the game, and that defeats the purpose of escapism to me. To me this seems crazy, but I suppose some people are into it enough for it to make sense. Given direct neural interface technology and objects that might as well be real in a true immersive cyberspace enviroment, I can see the real world value being attached this way. But for the current tech level... no... just no. See, I could see someone paying this kind of money for say a one of a kind virtual sex program based off of a celebrity who never did another one, or something like that. Something that you could actually get some value from so to speak. In this case sex is just an example since I think it's a no-brainer that virtual porn will come right after virtual reality. Overall though, being a fairly evil person I would find it ironic if the "Atrox Queen" hatches, spawns a whole ton of Atrox, and then overruns the virtual holdings of whomever has it, turning valuable real estate into a monster infested wasteland of PC-munching creatures. Oh, and it's been a while but aren't Atrox one of the player races from "Anarchy Online". One of those big, fat, muscular genderless things? In this case it would be funny if it hatched into a differant kind of Atrox Queen from what they expected, with a flaming acting AO Atrox in fetish wear following them around that they just can't get rid of... I don't know, for all my evil thoughts I doubt the company would do something like that since it would ruin their business. | |
Sounds like a game where if u have a lot of money lying around you could actually make some in the long run. But it doesn't sound like someone with 100 bucks would do very well. Takes money to make money. | |
The egg will crack open and hack the owners credit card, it would be appriote(sp). | |
This all raises the question of weither the game is any fun as people pay absorbent sums to add and remove sequences of ones and zeros from a database. I can't imagine paying that much money for anything short of a game item that makes the real world sunshine and lollipops somehow. | |
Seems like my dad's old adage on free-market economics, "If it exists, someone can make money off of it," needs to be amended. Seriously though, that's just insane. | |
That game seems pretty profitable for these guys. But, really, would you mortgage your home for it? What would happen if you bought whatever it was, and then the server crashed, was hacked etc.? If there are people using keyloggers for Entropia, they must be real bastards. | |
More money than sense... | |
Man, I wish some of these guys would give this money to me. I actually have bills to pay and stuff. Soon they will introduce virtual prostitution. | |
Any particular reason apart from to say you own a $70,000 egg? | |
I want to see it hatch and delete the players account | |
That's what I was thinking too. For some people this may be a worthwhile business venture. | |
Risking your investment on a few pixels and the "good feeling" that someone out there is stupid enough to buy this for a bigger price than you did? | |
My dad actually plays this (i've had a go too) and its ridiculously hard to make money unless you put ALOT of money into it. My dad actually mines on that asteroid alot and with the amounts worth of resources people find in there no wonder NEVERDIE makes a living off of it since he gets a cut of everything found. | |
Wow, that's an insane amount for something that doesn't even technically exist. Just out of curiosity, I don't suppose anyone knows what the largest amount payed for an actual real egg is? | |
What.The.Fuck. | |
egg+idiot=Profit! | |
So... this guy sold an egg to another player and no one knows when it's going to hatch or if it's even going to be worth the $70,000. Wow, this is when people should realize that they have too much money. | |
What's funny is we might have a news article about this same guy in about year and how he made double his investment after the egg hatched. | |
Does anyone know what you actually do in Planet Calypso? Cause it just sounds like a random Sims game on steroids. | |
This is pretty cool. But that original owner didn't even keep it to see if it hatches? If it does, you could probably sell whatever the hell it is for even more. I should join the game and MAKE SOME MONEY! | |
If they turn a profit... how so? | |
So it's basicly a pyramid scam? | |
Sounds to me like these guys heard about EVE Online, then thought, "Let's make it INTERESTING." | |
Well...glad to hear it worked out for him...but man what a weird story. | |
*cough* Second Life *cough* And well uh.. those still are small sums actually 60.000, 333.000, while there is still that one person in SL that made 1 million off virtual estate buisness. Sure in SL its a bit different becaus epoeple buy/sell form of intelectual property mostly in form of clothing designs/scripts/etc but still its all virtual. | |
Yes, This is ridiculous donate your fucking money to someone who needs it, not a fucking virtual egg Or at the very least for a real egg. | |
Just make sure your online money-making covers the cost of maintaining your body alive (consider leg amputation to reduce nutritionnal needs, you wont need them anyway) and a good internet connection. After that, you just need to be efficient at gold farming in the game. | |
Personally it seems incredibly risky to try to make money in this kind of thing. The developer at any time could make a new quest or release an update that increases the amount of ingame items, which would of course lower their value because of supply and demand. What would happen to the price if, a few days after buying that egg for $70000, 10 more eggs are released into the virtual world? It's only a variable change away... | |
Today's lesson, kids: Some people in this world have WAY too much money. | |
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Virtual Egg Sells for $70,000
The hidden virtual worlds out there never cease to amaze, with virtual items and property in MMOG Planet Calypso selling for enormous amounts of money.
First Planet Company, a subsidiary of MindArk that runs MMOG Planet Calypso, has announced that an in-game item called the Atrox Queen Egg recently sold for $69,696. That's in real dollars, not virtual currency. I say again, and this is not a joke, somebody bought a virtual egg for $70,000.
Planet Calypso is apparently the one and only active portal in MindArk's Entropia Universe (with more portals planned) where players purchase Planet Entropia Dollars (PED) with actual currency at an exchange rate of 10 PED to $1. PED can at any time be turned back into real money, minus transaction fees and assuming a minimum transaction amount, meaning that every item in Planet Calypso has a real cash value.
This Atrox Queen Egg was acquired by a player who completed a unique quest, and originally sold to Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs for $10,000 in 2006. In a public auction on Sunday, NEVERDIE (caps, man, caps) sold the virtual egg to David "Deathifier" Storey for the exorbitant sum.
This sale might seem strange, but NEVERDIE, Deathifier, and other Planet Calypso players have become moguls of the virtual world. Erik "Buzz Erik Lightyear" Novak bought the game's Crystal Palace Space Station for $330,000 back in January, the largest virtual purchase ever. NEVERDIE mortgaged his Miami home in 2005 to purchase an asteroid for $100,000, on which he earned profits from a virtual nightclub, mining/hunting rights, and property sales, reportedly recouping his investment very quickly. Deathifier bought an area called Treasure Island for $27,500 and made his money back in a year. This is all according to First Planet Company's press release.
The Atrox Queen Egg is a more unique story, as players still don't know when it will hatch, or what will happen if it does. Marco Behrmann, CEO of First Planet Company, says Planet Calypso is "introducing a new quest system soon" to perhaps generate an entirely new set of valuable items. When mother told me that I could never earn money by playing videogames, I believed her, though now it seems she could have been wrong. I just wonder if earning profit in Planet Calypso is as easy in practice as it's made out to be.
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