He could buy items from the mall and sell them at a discount or ebay the in game currency. I'm not sure how the game works but I'm sure he would have some options. I'm not saying he will get it all out but he can get most out I bet, the remainder would be the cost of the sword.
Seriously Farmville? Yeah I think it's great. In a World where half our population is dying of hunger the more fortunate half is spending their time harvesting food that doesn't exist.
Well this isn't much different from putting a value in collecting rare gemstones or in rare books. Think of people who paid $75,000 bucks for that bottle of rare wine that they probably won't ever drink. That guy probaby loved the game so much he jumped at the chance to aquire a really rare weapon that nobody else will ever have. What he paid for is the guarantee from the game operators that there won't ever be another weapon as powerful or as unique as the one he bought. It's all the concept of worth, why do you think the painting of Mona Lisa is worth several millions of dollars? Because its rare and unique and nobody else in the world can ever re-create it ever again.
That guy probably invested in that unique weapon hoping he could resell it in the future when the game has grown and someone else would offer a bigger amount of money for it than what he paid.
Well this guy is a definate bell end for spending that sort of cash on an in game item. But hey, if he has money to burn and wants to do it thats fine. Either way the guys obviously a total idiot. The stupid thing is, this might actually give other games companies ideas like this, next we will see Blizzard setting up an auction for a "super destruction blade of the apocalypse" and Chuck Norris will give them 10mil for it. Garrik
...or be the one and only to play a photo realistic Chuck Norris 3D model.
Lol i remember when in barrens chat Chuck Norris was all people ever talked about....Those were the days.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =The best bash.org quote ever= Curt teh Juggler: our graduation ceremony was today, and right when some gamer nerd got his diploma, someone in the audience played the zelda "get item" music and he did the zelda spin-hold-out-item stance Curt teh Juggler: it was quite possibly the most amazing thing ever.
Well this guy is a definate bell end for spending that sort of cash on an in game item. But hey, if he has money to burn and wants to do it thats fine. Either way the guys obviously a total idiot. The stupid thing is, this might actually give other games companies ideas like this, next we will see Blizzard setting up an auction for a "super destruction blade of the apocalypse" and Chuck Norris will give them 10mil for it. Garrik
I can totally see that happening
I mean WOW is huge, look at a game like Entropia.. which has a fraction of the popularity of WOW, yet a guy bought a space station for $100,000 US and made a million off of it. Can you imagine if WOW did this stuff? It'd be out of control.
One of the things that makes MMO's fun to me is it's not real life, you can do amazing things in the game without spending real life money. I hope gaming never comes to the point where you have to be r/l rich to get anywhere in a game, that kind of ruins the fantasy setting.
Wow, this is the most asenine thing I have ever heard of.....To pay real-life cash for something that isn't real is pretty stupid to begin with...but that much cash is enough to change a persons life if it was simply given to them. They could go back to school. make a down payment on a house. I hope this game is cancelled in the next month, so the people who injected all of that money realize their monumental stupidity.
What is the world coming to, really.
So you are saying that you never met a gold farmer behind a hill for a trade in the shadows of night? Be careful now, they know your name irl...
Wow, this is the most asenine thing I have ever heard of.....To pay real-life cash for something that isn't real is pretty stupid to begin with...but that much cash is enough to change a persons life if it was simply given to them. They could go back to school. make a down payment on a house. I hope this game is cancelled in the next month, so the people who injected all of that money realize their monumental stupidity.
What is the world coming to, really.
So you are saying that you never met a gold farmer behind a hill for a trade in the shadows of night? Be careful now, they know your name irl...
Um theres a big difference, in most games gold farming is against the TOS, as is item selling for RL money. Here the actual company is doing it.
Originally posted by Symone look at a game like Planetside.. which has a fraction of the popularity of WOW, yet a guy bought a space station for $100,000 US and made a million off of it.
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
Originally posted by Symone look at a game like Planetside.. which has a fraction of the popularity of WOW, yet a guy bought a space station for $100,000 US and made a million off of it.
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
LOL whoops Entropia,. don't know why I was thinking planetside
Originally posted by Symone look at a game like Planetside.. which has a fraction of the popularity of WOW, yet a guy bought a space station for $100,000 US and made a million off of it.
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
damn Symone you stole what I was going to say >.>, though Nullapax I think he means Entropia Universe, unless something that insane can happen twice o.o.
when you look at it, thoug he exchanged real money for game money, which is probably worse less then real money. in reality he probably spend no more then a few thousand US, a hell of a lot of cash for most,
but its nothing to insane, when compaired to Entropia Universe. in the hall of fame some lucky bastard made 15k US in one shot off mining.
Well this isn't much different from putting a value in collecting rare gemstones or in rare books. Think of people who paid $75,000 bucks for that bottle of rare wine that they probably won't ever drink. That guy probaby loved the game so much he jumped at the chance to aquire a really rare weapon that nobody else will ever have. What he paid for is the guarantee from the game operators that there won't ever be another weapon as powerful or as unique as the one he bought. It's all the concept of worth, why do you think the painting of Mona Lisa is worth several millions of dollars? Because its rare and unique and nobody else in the world can ever re-create it ever again. That guy probably invested in that unique weapon hoping he could resell it in the future when the game has grown and someone else would offer a bigger amount of money for it than what he paid.
But I'm going to LMAO when they decide to NERF that weapon because it is unbalanced against other players LMAO!!!
I wonder if that blade had lead paint in it. If so he should get a refund asap. You hit giant spider for 2600 dmg and 5850 lead paint damage. Your target dies a horrible death.
GG China
That made me laugh...a lot.
Thanks.
I think your the only one that got that or nobody else has a sense of humor here
Originally posted by Symone look at a game like Planetside.. which has a fraction of the popularity of WOW, yet a guy bought a space station for $100,000 US and made a million off of it.
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
Wow, this is the most asenine thing I have ever heard of.....To pay real-life cash for something that isn't real is pretty stupid to begin with...but that much cash is enough to change a persons life if it was simply given to them. They could go back to school. make a down payment on a house. I hope this game is cancelled in the next month, so the people who injected all of that money realize their monumental stupidity.
Why is it stupid? Most of us posting here do it on a regular basis. I gave Blizzard $50 to play with some stuff that isn't real (the WoW base game), gave them $40 more to play with some different stuff that wasn't real (the expansion), and continue to give them $15 each month to play with non-real stuff. I have a whole row of boxes from games I paid $30 to $50 each for, every one chock-full of things that aren't real (I know the box, manual, and CD aren't worth $50, so I obviously paid for the data and the ability to play with it).
Where do you draw the line? At what point does it become stupid? Is it a set dollar amount? A percentage of one's net worth? If I have $300 in my wallet, spending a dollar on a virtual toy seems like no big deal. Likewise, if I have $10 million sitting around (I don't, but some people do), $30,000 isn't much to spend on a hobby.
Wow, this is the most asenine thing I have ever heard of.....To pay real-life cash for something that isn't real is pretty stupid to begin with...but that much cash is enough to change a persons life if it was simply given to them. They could go back to school. make a down payment on a house. I hope this game is cancelled in the next month, so the people who injected all of that money realize their monumental stupidity.
Why is it stupid? Most of us posting here do it on a regular basis. I gave Blizzard $50 to play with some stuff that isn't real (the WoW base game), gave them $40 more to play with some different stuff that wasn't real (the expansion), and continue to give them $15 each month to play with non-real stuff. I have a whole row of boxes from games I paid $30 to $50 each for, every one chock-full of things that aren't real (I know the box, manual, and CD aren't worth $50, so I obviously paid for the data and the ability to play with it).
Where do you draw the line? At what point does it become stupid? Is it a set dollar amount? A percentage of one's net worth? If I have $300 in my wallet, spending a dollar on a virtual toy seems like no big deal. Likewise, if I have $10 million sitting around (I don't, but some people do), $30,000 isn't much to spend on a hobby.
You complety right on that bono !!! Some people have so much money that 30k is like 1$ !!!
I know someone who make that every week and if you look around, you probably know someone like this!!!
But the one i know don't have time to play game lol !!
Wow, this is the most asenine thing I have ever heard of.....To pay real-life cash for something that isn't real is pretty stupid to begin with...but that much cash is enough to change a persons life if it was simply given to them. They could go back to school. make a down payment on a house. I hope this game is cancelled in the next month, so the people who injected all of that money realize their monumental stupidity.
What is the world coming to, really.
I want to clear something up...You said to pay money for something that isn't "real"? Who's to say digital data is not "real"? When a broadcasting company uses after effects to make a commercial for some company, its just digital data with no mass....but its still worth something. When someones models a 3d model in Maya and sells the "digital data" of that model online for others to use...is that not "real"? It may be some item in some game thats just data, but who's to say its not real just because it has no physical mass?
I am a CG artist, so you are barking up the wrong tree with this arguement :-)
Point of fact is, I was too general in my selection of language...so I guess I was just begging for a post like this from the sematics police. Understand, the CG assets I produce freelance are real. Once completed, those assets are given to the client, who may do what they wish with them. It is now their property, and I cannot take them back without serious legal cause.
Virtual items in a video game are never real, because they are never anything but the property of the developer/publisher of that particular game. So, you have no real claim to it...ever. They can shut that game down tomorrow and you'd be totally SoL if it was you who purchased that item. Hell, according to most EULAs, they can simply delete it from your character, and that would be that (Just ask all the SoE haters about this point).
So again, buying virtual items in a video game is about as smart as rolling up dollar bills and smoking them....at least there you might get a buzz.
Frank 'Spankybus' Mignone www.spankybus.com -3d Artist & Compositor -Writer -Professional Amature
Wow, this is the most asenine thing I have ever heard of.....To pay real-life cash for something that isn't real is pretty stupid to begin with...but that much cash is enough to change a persons life if it was simply given to them. They could go back to school. make a down payment on a house. I hope this game is cancelled in the next month, so the people who injected all of that money realize their monumental stupidity.
What is the world coming to, really.
Although I certainly won't argue that buying a $25,000 + virtual sword isn't immensely retarded, I can say with absolute certainty that the vast majority of people are guilty of paying cash for something that isn't real. I'm sure you are guilty as well. Think about all the times that you've gone to a movie or a sporting event. Each of those times you've spent cash on something that isn't real. If you add up all your sporting events and movies, you'll find out that if you're like most Americans, you've spent a large chunk of change on NOTHING.
In fact, if you really think about it, people who buy virtual items often achieve a larger (and in many cases longer) amount of satisfaction then any movie or sporting event. From the perspective of entertainment, the purchase of virtual items can many time bring about far more satisfaction then the world of movies and sports that the vast majority of Americans are guilty of purchasing. This doesn't even take into account all the money spent on alcohol, which although tangible is really about the entertainment experience obtained while drinking, which is just as "real" as buying an imaginary sword.
So how much would you say you've spent on nothing through the purchase of movies and sporting events? Are you really that much less stupid then someone who spends some disposable income on virtual gear?
This debate is moot. We see people spend millions of dollars for painting that look like toasted shit everyday. To collect money, stamps and all kind of crap that will never be used for anything in real life.
So... Of all those people, that guy who spent about 30k on a sword that he will actually be able to USE 24/7 in his favorite hobby, doesn't seem that stupid for me anymore.
What i don't like about that though, is the business model. The simple fact that you can kick everybody's ass in a game simply because you're richer in real life simply disgust me. Gaming are supposed to be virtual world where "everybody has a fair chance to compete against each other". Yet, i guess that's virtually utopic as well, since the dude that has a bigger rig then me with all sorts of 3rd party program and peripheric running on it will always be able to frag my ass more efficiently then the one guy who lag and have a hard time to target because of that. Or the dude that can play 18 hours a day the game that i like the most, but i can't compete against those guys not because i'm lacking skills, but time to practice. /shrug
Bottom line is: Finding anything "really" fair in this capitalist world is as hard as teaching common sense of people in the middle east. So you try to find the one that appeals the most to the level of insanity you can deal with.
What deserves to be done, deserves to be "well" done...
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He could buy items from the mall and sell them at a discount or ebay the in game currency. I'm not sure how the game works but I'm sure he would have some options. I'm not saying he will get it all out but he can get most out I bet, the remainder would be the cost of the sword.
When i first read the link below i was thinking it's a bit crazy. Now i am so convinced it's needed.
www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/02/23/china_mounts_crusade_against_teen_internet_addiction/
Well this isn't much different from putting a value in collecting rare gemstones or in rare books. Think of people who paid $75,000 bucks for that bottle of rare wine that they probably won't ever drink. That guy probaby loved the game so much he jumped at the chance to aquire a really rare weapon that nobody else will ever have. What he paid for is the guarantee from the game operators that there won't ever be another weapon as powerful or as unique as the one he bought. It's all the concept of worth, why do you think the painting of Mona Lisa is worth several millions of dollars? Because its rare and unique and nobody else in the world can ever re-create it ever again.
That guy probably invested in that unique weapon hoping he could resell it in the future when the game has grown and someone else would offer a bigger amount of money for it than what he paid.
...or be the one and only to play a photo realistic Chuck Norris 3D model.
Lol i remember when in barrens chat Chuck Norris was all people ever talked about....Those were the days.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
=The best bash.org quote ever=
Curt teh Juggler: our graduation ceremony was today, and right when some gamer nerd got his diploma, someone in the audience played the zelda "get item" music and he did the zelda spin-hold-out-item stance
Curt teh Juggler: it was quite possibly the most amazing thing ever.
I can totally see that happening
I mean WOW is huge, look at a game like Entropia.. which has a fraction of the popularity of WOW, yet a guy bought a space station for $100,000 US and made a million off of it. Can you imagine if WOW did this stuff? It'd be out of control.
One of the things that makes MMO's fun to me is it's not real life, you can do amazing things in the game without spending real life money. I hope gaming never comes to the point where you have to be r/l rich to get anywhere in a game, that kind of ruins the fantasy setting.
So you are saying that you never met a gold farmer behind a hill for a trade in the shadows of night? Be careful now, they know your name irl...
crazy.
So you are saying that you never met a gold farmer behind a hill for a trade in the shadows of night? Be careful now, they know your name irl...
Um theres a big difference, in most games gold farming is against the TOS, as is item selling for RL money. Here the actual company is doing it.
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
LOL whoops Entropia,. don't know why I was thinking planetside
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
damn Symone you stole what I was going to say >.>, though Nullapax I think he means Entropia Universe, unless something that insane can happen twice o.o.when you look at it, thoug he exchanged real money for game money, which is probably worse less then real money. in reality he probably spend no more then a few thousand US, a hell of a lot of cash for most,
but its nothing to insane, when compaired to Entropia Universe. in the hall of fame some lucky bastard made 15k US in one shot off mining.
But I'm going to LMAO when they decide to NERF that weapon because it is unbalanced against other players LMAO!!!
Thanks.
I think your the only one that got that or nobody else has a sense of humor here
Errrr - Planetside ? ... are you sure your on the right game there ?
it happened in project entropia
Hopefully this didn't happen: ...Doh! My character can't equip this weapon... *g*
Why is it stupid? Most of us posting here do it on a regular basis. I gave Blizzard $50 to play with some stuff that isn't real (the WoW base game), gave them $40 more to play with some different stuff that wasn't real (the expansion), and continue to give them $15 each month to play with non-real stuff. I have a whole row of boxes from games I paid $30 to $50 each for, every one chock-full of things that aren't real (I know the box, manual, and CD aren't worth $50, so I obviously paid for the data and the ability to play with it).
Where do you draw the line? At what point does it become stupid? Is it a set dollar amount? A percentage of one's net worth? If I have $300 in my wallet, spending a dollar on a virtual toy seems like no big deal. Likewise, if I have $10 million sitting around (I don't, but some people do), $30,000 isn't much to spend on a hobby.
Why is it stupid? Most of us posting here do it on a regular basis. I gave Blizzard $50 to play with some stuff that isn't real (the WoW base game), gave them $40 more to play with some different stuff that wasn't real (the expansion), and continue to give them $15 each month to play with non-real stuff. I have a whole row of boxes from games I paid $30 to $50 each for, every one chock-full of things that aren't real (I know the box, manual, and CD aren't worth $50, so I obviously paid for the data and the ability to play with it).
Where do you draw the line? At what point does it become stupid? Is it a set dollar amount? A percentage of one's net worth? If I have $300 in my wallet, spending a dollar on a virtual toy seems like no big deal. Likewise, if I have $10 million sitting around (I don't, but some people do), $30,000 isn't much to spend on a hobby.
You complety right on that bono !!! Some people have so much money that 30k is like 1$ !!!
I know someone who make that every week and if you look around, you probably know someone like this!!!
But the one i know don't have time to play game lol !!
I want to clear something up...You said to pay money for something that isn't "real"? Who's to say digital data is not "real"? When a broadcasting company uses after effects to make a commercial for some company, its just digital data with no mass....but its still worth something. When someones models a 3d model in Maya and sells the "digital data" of that model online for others to use...is that not "real"? It may be some item in some game thats just data, but who's to say its not real just because it has no physical mass?
I am a CG artist, so you are barking up the wrong tree with this arguement :-)Point of fact is, I was too general in my selection of language...so I guess I was just begging for a post like this from the sematics police. Understand, the CG assets I produce freelance are real. Once completed, those assets are given to the client, who may do what they wish with them. It is now their property, and I cannot take them back without serious legal cause.
Virtual items in a video game are never real, because they are never anything but the property of the developer/publisher of that particular game. So, you have no real claim to it...ever. They can shut that game down tomorrow and you'd be totally SoL if it was you who purchased that item. Hell, according to most EULAs, they can simply delete it from your character, and that would be that (Just ask all the SoE haters about this point).
So again, buying virtual items in a video game is about as smart as rolling up dollar bills and smoking them....at least there you might get a buzz.
Frank 'Spankybus' Mignone
www.spankybus.com
-3d Artist & Compositor
-Writer
-Professional Amature
Who wants to bet that this game is marketed as "casual friendly"?
Although I certainly won't argue that buying a $25,000 + virtual sword isn't immensely retarded, I can say with absolute certainty that the vast majority of people are guilty of paying cash for something that isn't real. I'm sure you are guilty as well. Think about all the times that you've gone to a movie or a sporting event. Each of those times you've spent cash on something that isn't real. If you add up all your sporting events and movies, you'll find out that if you're like most Americans, you've spent a large chunk of change on NOTHING.
In fact, if you really think about it, people who buy virtual items often achieve a larger (and in many cases longer) amount of satisfaction then any movie or sporting event. From the perspective of entertainment, the purchase of virtual items can many time bring about far more satisfaction then the world of movies and sports that the vast majority of Americans are guilty of purchasing. This doesn't even take into account all the money spent on alcohol, which although tangible is really about the entertainment experience obtained while drinking, which is just as "real" as buying an imaginary sword.
So how much would you say you've spent on nothing through the purchase of movies and sporting events? Are you really that much less stupid then someone who spends some disposable income on virtual gear?
This debate is moot. We see people spend millions of dollars for painting that look like toasted shit everyday. To collect money, stamps and all kind of crap that will never be used for anything in real life.
So... Of all those people, that guy who spent about 30k on a sword that he will actually be able to USE 24/7 in his favorite hobby, doesn't seem that stupid for me anymore.
What i don't like about that though, is the business model. The simple fact that you can kick everybody's ass in a game simply because you're richer in real life simply disgust me. Gaming are supposed to be virtual world where "everybody has a fair chance to compete against each other". Yet, i guess that's virtually utopic as well, since the dude that has a bigger rig then me with all sorts of 3rd party program and peripheric running on it will always be able to frag my ass more efficiently then the one guy who lag and have a hard time to target because of that. Or the dude that can play 18 hours a day the game that i like the most, but i can't compete against those guys not because i'm lacking skills, but time to practice. /shrug
Bottom line is: Finding anything "really" fair in this capitalist world is as hard as teaching common sense of people in the middle east. So you try to find the one that appeals the most to the level of insanity you can deal with.
What deserves to be done, deserves to be "well" done...