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Man buys virtual space station for $100,000
In cyberspace no one can hear you scream “how much?”
Thu Nov 10 2005, 06:57
IN WHAT is being billed as the largest virtual property deal, a film director has bought a virtual space station
in the online game Project Entropia for $100,000 real US dollars.
Jon Jacobs, a director of independent films, plans to turn the space station into a virtual resort ground that spawns dinosaur-like monsters, which visitors can kill.
The game, which has no subscription fee, has its own currency but it's convertible at a fixed rate to dollars. Jacobs will take a cut of the virtual resources that gamers will make selling the hides and he estimates he will make about $20,000 a month from running the virtual service.
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