Virtual Egg Sells for $70,000

[Energylegzz]

egg+idiot=Profit!

 

[Aesir23]

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.

 

[Internet Kraken]

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.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Does anyone know what you actually do in Planet Calypso?

Cause it just sounds like a random Sims game on steroids.

 

[brunothepig]

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!

 

[Flying Dagger]

So it's basicly a pyramid scam?

 

[Lord Of Cyberia]

Sounds to me like these guys heard about EVE Online, then thought, "Let's make it INTERESTING."

 

[Snotnarok]

Well...glad to hear it worked out for him...but man what a weird story.

 

[Keava]

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.

*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.
Question is how your real life investement comes into terms with what you earn. Might be some of those epople actually invisted not more than 30-50$ and managed to turn it into smaller or greater sums but its just like with any other buisness.

 

[Twad]

It's obvious that nursing is not where the money is. I've got to rethink my life.

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.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Yeah. I bought it.

More money than sense...

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.

It's not like the money disappeared...down a drain. It's now transferred to MindArk.

 

[Johnson McGee]

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...

 

[TheKnotAlchemist]

Today's lesson, kids: Some people in this world have WAY too much money.