As If Video Games Themselves Weren't Expensive Enough

We cracked wise the last time a similar story came within view of our blogstruments, but here it is again: tomorrow's world will be lived inside of computers, and we will all be powerful elves or something. The latest evidence? Some dude paid 100,000 real dollars for a virtual space station in the game Project Entropia, one of those online multiplayer dealies for people whose real lives are pathetic but who virtually are princesses and wizards and isn't that what matters and yadda yadda yadda. (It's our no. 40 news story today.) Forgive us for not buying into the utopian geekoid groupthink about these online multiplayer games... we'll take a nice first-person shooter anytime and thanks so much. Others are skeptical, too: "There's a whole world out there... that I don't understand... $100,000... why?" asks this blogger. Others, however, understand the decision: "Why spend so much on a piece of virtual property? Because it's just like owning the Mall of America -- it's a place to conduct business and make real-world cash," writes Collision Detection. Oh, you can make money in these games? Well that ain't so bad after all.

Posted by Philip Ewing at October 27, 2005 10:45 AM

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