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Anonymous Chinese man who spent $16,000 on a virtual sword before the game was released
onezero1
Member Posts: 6
Crazy!!
He got the virtual sword at an auction to celebrate the launch of a highly anticipated game called Age of Wulin. Set in ancient China, the players would be able to ramble through a beautifully detailed world crouching the tiger and hiding the dragon. Other items sold include a sheath for Hook of Departure—sold for $1,600—and a Lordly Spear Sheath—sold for $2,500.
It's going to be released in China soon, but it will not be available in English until Spring 2012, when all your base are belong to them.
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What happens if he doesn't like the game? Is he allowed to sell the sword and try to get his money back? What happens if no one likes the game? Or is the main point of this as a marketing stunt, more so than to raise revenue?
One Word. Addiction.
Proving yet again that wealth and sense are not strongly correlated.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Wow they have set a high standard for a cash shop. . see.. . SEE. . all you F2Pers didn't think it would go this way!
Kidding. That is just crazy but hey. . their money. . as long as he is eating and taking care of responsibilities who cares. . he might have millions
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
some people buy a porsche, some people buy a mansion, other people buy weapons in video games... I know in conquer full +12 double socket is somewhere around 12k or somthing!
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
If they have a picture of him getting some plaque to commemorate the purchase, then how is he anonymous?
wow im wondering how many starving homeless kids could have survived with that money instead it was used for something that doesnt exist for a greedy game company...this sort of stuff makes me want biblical end of times to happen for real.
LOL! Just LOL!!!
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Here are two more.
Publicity Stunt
You want EVERYONE to die because some people spend their money in poorly thought out ways. I would say thats much more selfish than what he did. Its his money, let him do what he pleases with it.
People will always be complaning about something, its poverty in this case, but if it wasnt poverty it would be something else. Next time you go to mcdonalds or buy a steak, you should go and buy some food for the homeless. Actually, do that EVERY time you want something that you dont have to have.
For all you know this guy saved up his money for a while for something like this, or maybe he doesnt indulge often.
Don't see how this made it to be such a big deal. Do we blindly forget the amount of money people spent on other items?
People pay several millions of dollars for a Bugatti, yet the car is not sent to them for months if not years later (someone correct me) as it's being made by a human(s). My point is, people do dumb shit with money and this just further proves that.
True, but I still rather have the Bugatti.
But some people just have too much money to spend
Haha yeah me too. As it is now i'm too cheap to play games that require subscription. I doubt even if I had millions I'd buy this sword over a Bugatti though.
Not many. A mere $16,000 hardly will pay for one kid for one year.
Compared to the billions of dollars other people make per year, this is hardly any money.
So the real question is: Why do we get this kind of posting for a news like that ?
$1 or $16,000... it's the same idiocy.
Spending money (money you have earned in trade for your life) on renting virtual items in online environments that don't belong to you in any way is crazy.
There is subcontest you are not reading here.
While majority of Chinese people work for 1$ hour wages , there is minority that is absurdely ritch.
For them 16000$ is same as 16$ for you.
The Chinese wealthy also pay absurd amounts to import certain breeds of dog. Into the thousands most of the time. Much more than NA or EU pays for the same breed.
There is an element of nationalism involved too. Chinese games about ancient China are srz bsns in China. If there's anything that can make even a middle class (if that exists over there) individual override their sense of fiscal responsibility, it is pride for the a time when they were a major empire.
This is just sad. Don't people have anything better to spend there money on. Maybe even donating money to charity. $16k is a waste of money for something you can't even physically touch. =[
Wrong: it's two words: Dumb Ass
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Its amusing how many people get worked up about this.
Its just one person. Out of how many billion ? Not everyone is reasonable. Not even every Chinese.
And these people from Japan Adore a Virtual Idol. Different culture maybe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
What a shame. But hey. Who am I to tell people how to spend their money. We're all guilty of this.
My wife, duaghter, and I have everything we need. My wife and I really didn't need any X-mas gifts. I didn't need anything; she didn't need anything. But we still spent money on tangible crap that will either depreciate quickly or go out of style within a few years. That money could've been used for a more meaningful purpose - something I thought about even when buying my gifts.
I've heard of old 50's Fender Strats selling for over 100k, as if no high-end modern guitar can offer the same quality sound (I know. I've played for 20 years). But at least these types of sales will still hold some value. That $16,000 sword? What a total a$$.
Sad commercial world.
The man really didn't buy the sword... it was a hoax or "promotion" to get other retards to spend their $100 on items BEFORE the game went live. If some super retard spent $16,000. Then normal retards will comfortable spending a few hundred.
"No they are not charity. That is where the whales come in. (I play for free. Whales pays.) Devs get a business. That is how it works."
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