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Would You Pay $60,000 for a Virtual Mount? No? Well, Someone in Ragnarok M Did - MMORPG.com News

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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404
    I am not surprised by how a fool and their money are soon parted. 
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  • ArskaaaArskaaa Member RarePosts: 1,265
    some people should never handle money on own
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    Looks like someone just made a reservation for the 4th circle of hell. 

    ;)
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  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    edited January 2019
    Asheram said:
    Money laundering, the guy that bought it is probably attached to the game in some fashion behind the scenes.
    i agree, they are probably trying to lure people to pay that much for items.

    Shady stuff.
    Gdemami




  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    edited January 2019
    @torval,

    Path of exile isnt a whale driven milk machine, it is cosmetic items. You are so wrong on that.

    Also Project Entropia is different.

    The club neverdie guy originally bought it for 100+k and he earns money via taxes. The land in entropia nets you money.

    I put in about $2000 for land deeds in project entropia and get about $10 a month from it. If i put in $200,000, id get $1000 a month. Abput what people do when they buy an investment property and rent it out.

    Also, 60k is a lot of money to some people and peanuts to others. For example, id never spend 55k for a rolex but the same person who would may think buying an 80k car is dumb when a 25k car suffices. That is what i did 2 years ago, had a 25k car, bought an 80k one.

    Everyone is different, plus, if people have disposable income good for them for making bank. 

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  • blamo2000blamo2000 Member RarePosts: 1,130
    Good for the seller. I have no issue with this - if people want to waste their hard earned money on crazy nonsense more power to them. The hallmark of liberty is people having the absolute right to engage in activity or say things that you detest.
    Gdemami
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    blamo2000 said:
    Good for the seller. I have no issue with this - if people want to waste their hard earned money on crazy nonsense more power to them. The hallmark of liberty is people having the absolute right to engage in activity or say things that you detest.
    Hallmark of stupidity you mean.

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  • d4tenshid4tenshi Member UncommonPosts: 1




    Torval said:


    Remember when people cheered because loot crates are outlawed in Belgium. Everyone cheered it as a win talking about how important small steps forward are? I said it won't solve anything because it doesn't address predatory monetization and here we are with predatory monetization, not using loot crates, in a player driven virtual trade market.

    We need regulation addressing predatory monetization at the root, not the the fruit (loot crates). It doesn't matter if this is money laundering or someone with more money than sense, the environment shouldn't allow for this sort of gross negligence.

    Have fun with your mediocre whale driven milk machines like Path of Exile and Warframe. I can hear it now, "But but but those are player friendly, cries the western gamer." :lol: /smh






    You do know that price was set by a player on the player drivin auction house...... You are rambling on about is something from the company this was a transaction between players not company and players



    No, the one who sold the mount item is the company, not player.
  • ZulusixfiveZulusixfive Member CommonPosts: 1


    Two week old game and virtual currency. I'm calling duping, publicity stunt, or outright bullshit.



    Two weeks old game? Really? All you need to do is a simple google search.

    people sacrificed a lot of their material possessions for zenys, equips, cards etc during the pc era. I saw live transaction where a guy trade his bike for a card in a internet cafe.

    Yes it sounds stupid for a guy spent a fortune to a mobile game released 2 months ago but if you have no idea how big ragnarok online in the past, chance are you're too young to know about it. Btw this game stole pubg's number 1 grossing app in just 2 months in the playstore.
  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,053
    Kyleran said:
    blamo2000 said:
    Good for the seller. I have no issue with this - if people want to waste their hard earned money on crazy nonsense more power to them. The hallmark of liberty is people having the absolute right to engage in activity or say things that you detest.
    Hallmark of stupidity you mean.
    No, liberty. The assumption that the aveeage person is smart enough to hold up his own pants has been proven wrong time and again. “The masses” aren’t that clever, just look at hugely popular brands, where music, movies, games, restaurants, clothing etc. have been going. Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, the fact that we are here discussing these things already means we are not part of that majority.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
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    Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...



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    It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.

    It is just huge resource waste....'

    Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer

  • RhimeRhime Member UncommonPosts: 302
    Hey Star Citizen trolls...look, more fodder to feed on! Come on in...
  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    Asheram said:
    Money laundering, the guy that bought it is probably attached to the game in some fashion behind the scenes.
    i agree, they are probably trying to lure people to pay that much for items.

    Shady stuff.
    Sometimes those things are just a means of 'cleanly' paying for contraband items, having a delivery of a kilogram or two of an illegal substance is entirely possible, its been done before.
  • deanster23deanster23 Member UncommonPosts: 3
    edited January 2019
    wouldn't be too worried about that. the guy who paid for it is a doctor and he lives in the capital area of Indonesia where the prices of things including his service can be really expensive so i expect his money to be back in full form in few months.

    also regardless the dev itself is already swimming in pools of money without this since they have gacha system for headgears and boy do they tell you how much did people spent for them. The downside of it is a month after the launch everyone suffers from major bug exploits and server issues (once we had like 2-3 maintenances in a week and each maintenance only results in more problems like missing items, zennys and loss of guild contributions etc) ) so the devs had to churn out like outstanding amount of compensations.

    Yeah it's still a joke but at least the cash shop never offered overpowered equipments , boss cards or headgears heck there's no cosmetic stuffs either. And those in-game cash currency they use for bidding in the auctions will be converted to zennys for the receiver.
  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    wouldn't be too worried about that. the guy who paid for it is a doctor and he lives in the capital area of Indonesia where the prices of things including his service can be really expensive so i expect his money to be back in full form in few months.

    also regardless the dev itself is already swimming in pools of money without this since they have gacha system for headgears and boy do they tell you how much did people spent for them. The downside of it is a month after the launch everyone suffers from major bug exploits and server issues (once we had like 2-3 maintenances in a week and each maintenance only results in more problems like missing items, zennys and loss of guild contributions etc) ) so the devs had to churn out like outstanding amount of compensations.

    Yeah it's still a joke but at least the cash shop never offered overpowered equipments , boss cards or headgears heck there's no cosmetic stuffs either. And those in-game cash currency they use for bidding in the auctions will be converted to zennys for the receiver.
    Probably a good idea for the police to keep a watch on his address then, in case there is a delivery of any 'suspicious' packages  :p
    Asheram
  • deanster23deanster23 Member UncommonPosts: 3
    edited January 2019
    Phry said:
    wouldn't be too worried about that. the guy who paid for it is a doctor and he lives in the capital area of Indonesia where the prices of things including his service can be really expensive so i expect his money to be back in full form in few months.

    also regardless the dev itself is already swimming in pools of money without this since they have gacha system for headgears and boy do they tell you how much did people spent for them. The downside of it is a month after the launch everyone suffers from major bug exploits and server issues (once we had like 2-3 maintenances in a week and each maintenance only results in more problems like missing items, zennys and loss of guild contributions etc) ) so the devs had to churn out like outstanding amount of compensations.

    Yeah it's still a joke but at least the cash shop never offered overpowered equipments , boss cards or headgears heck there's no cosmetic stuffs either. And those in-game cash currency they use for bidding in the auctions will be converted to zennys for the receiver.
    Probably a good idea for the police to keep a watch on his address then, in case there is a delivery of any 'suspicious' packages  :p
    lul Indonesia is pretty corrupt for minor issues like this you can pay the police away and most of them won't even bother with ambiguous stuffs like it. 

    Also the mount itself is nothing special and it's mostly for showoff purpose fun fact he did try to bid some of the earlier MVP / boss cards but lost to pretty much every other players and he basically spam clicked the bid for the mount so everyone went like ??????????? is this guy for real for a stuff like a fucking horse (pegasus x unicorn i guess) with no meaningful effect?
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  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    Phry said:
    wouldn't be too worried about that. the guy who paid for it is a doctor and he lives in the capital area of Indonesia where the prices of things including his service can be really expensive so i expect his money to be back in full form in few months.

    also regardless the dev itself is already swimming in pools of money without this since they have gacha system for headgears and boy do they tell you how much did people spent for them. The downside of it is a month after the launch everyone suffers from major bug exploits and server issues (once we had like 2-3 maintenances in a week and each maintenance only results in more problems like missing items, zennys and loss of guild contributions etc) ) so the devs had to churn out like outstanding amount of compensations.

    Yeah it's still a joke but at least the cash shop never offered overpowered equipments , boss cards or headgears heck there's no cosmetic stuffs either. And those in-game cash currency they use for bidding in the auctions will be converted to zennys for the receiver.
    Probably a good idea for the police to keep a watch on his address then, in case there is a delivery of any 'suspicious' packages  :p
    lul Indonesia is pretty corrupt for minor issues like this you can pay the police away and most of them won't even bother with ambiguous stuffs like it. 

    Also the mount itself is nothing special and it's mostly for showoff purpose fun fact he did try to bid some of the earlier MVP / boss cards but lost to pretty much every other players and he basically spam clicked the bid for the mount so everyone went like ??????????? is this guy for real for a stuff like a fucking horse (pegasus x unicorn i guess) with no meaningful effect?
    I think, personally, that i would rather not be the patient of a doctor that exercised such poor judgement, of course i am assuming he is a 'medical doctor' rather than one of those Dr's by post things that come from an online 'course'  ;)
  • AsheramAsheram Member EpicPosts: 5,078
    Phry said:
    Asheram said:
    Money laundering, the guy that bought it is probably attached to the game in some fashion behind the scenes.
    i agree, they are probably trying to lure people to pay that much for items.

    Shady stuff.
    Sometimes those things are just a means of 'cleanly' paying for contraband items, having a delivery of a kilogram or two of an illegal substance is entirely possible, its been done before.
    Lol yeah I wouldn"t be surprised. I was kind of joking when I made my comment but I wouldnt doubt that stuff like that happens. It made me think of that Tom Crusie scene from American Made so much money from ill gotten gains he had to bury it in back yard etc.

  • MrMelGibsonMrMelGibson Member EpicPosts: 3,039
    People are stupid. I think we stopped evolving and are starting to go backwards.
  • AsheramAsheram Member EpicPosts: 5,078
    edited January 2019
    People are stupid. I think we stopped evolving and are starting to go backwards.


    MrMelGibsonlaserit
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    People are stupid. I think we stopped evolving and are starting to go backwards.
    This explains it:



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  • deanster23deanster23 Member UncommonPosts: 3
    Phry said:
    Phry said:
    wouldn't be too worried about that. the guy who paid for it is a doctor and he lives in the capital area of Indonesia where the prices of things including his service can be really expensive so i expect his money to be back in full form in few months.

    also regardless the dev itself is already swimming in pools of money without this since they have gacha system for headgears and boy do they tell you how much did people spent for them. The downside of it is a month after the launch everyone suffers from major bug exploits and server issues (once we had like 2-3 maintenances in a week and each maintenance only results in more problems like missing items, zennys and loss of guild contributions etc) ) so the devs had to churn out like outstanding amount of compensations.

    Yeah it's still a joke but at least the cash shop never offered overpowered equipments , boss cards or headgears heck there's no cosmetic stuffs either. And those in-game cash currency they use for bidding in the auctions will be converted to zennys for the receiver.
    Probably a good idea for the police to keep a watch on his address then, in case there is a delivery of any 'suspicious' packages  :p
    lul Indonesia is pretty corrupt for minor issues like this you can pay the police away and most of them won't even bother with ambiguous stuffs like it. 

    Also the mount itself is nothing special and it's mostly for showoff purpose fun fact he did try to bid some of the earlier MVP / boss cards but lost to pretty much every other players and he basically spam clicked the bid for the mount so everyone went like ??????????? is this guy for real for a stuff like a fucking horse (pegasus x unicorn i guess) with no meaningful effect?
    I think, personally, that i would rather not be the patient of a doctor that exercised such poor judgement, of course i am assuming he is a 'medical doctor' rather than one of those Dr's by post things that come from an online 'course'  ;)
    haha he is an actual one he previously played the PC version and won some tournaments with the same guild though looking at the guild members itself it's safe to assume they're moreso or less as rich as him
  • GdemamiGdemami Member EpicPosts: 12,342
    edited January 2019
    People are stupid. I think we stopped evolving and are starting to go backwards.
    ...posters here are just a small minority, it would be false to think that everyone is stuck in the past, unable to adapt and extrapolate such sample on whole population.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    Iselin said:
    People are stupid. I think we stopped evolving and are starting to go backwards.
    This explains it:



    There is a serious point here, we have stopped evolving and since that is what raised us from apes, the fact it has stopped is a concern. Some talk of social evolution as if that could in some way replace the biological evolution of a species, I just cannot see how it can.

    But science always finds a way, we will quite possibly end up "evolving" in a planned "Gattaca style" solution.
    Gdemami
  • Octagon7711Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,004
    Iselin said:
    People are stupid. I think we stopped evolving and are starting to go backwards.
    This explains it:



    One other problem is radiation from cell phones, chemicals, pollutants in our air, food, and water supply make us sicker and limit high level thinking, which make people act more stupid, by shutting down the higher brain functions people react more emotionally without fully thinking about consequences.  Plus parents are better able to micro manage the lives of their children leaving them with little to no problem solving abilities.
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  • whoywhoy Member UncommonPosts: 53
    You can get the same mount from the loot box which cost 30BCC each in Taiwan server last year. However, only 60 loot boxes can be bought for each account and the chances to get the mount is extremely low of course.

    https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=28924&snA=31220
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