I live in MMORPG for 3 years now. I built the first romanian mmorpg who continue to be a great success in .ro and one of the best spanish online game. Economically speaking, owning a MMORPG is a good business depending how you succeed to sell it. In fact you are not selling a product or a service. You end up selling a story and every second you are fighting with a growing and powerful gamers community, hoping that they will give you a brake on sunday (yeah, dream on). Oh yeah. There are also cheaters that turns up to be one major challenge for the game’s developers. The $ chalange is in the 2nd place. Trust me. ;)
I can say that since I started to blog (thanks Antonio) and I discovered RSS feeds all over the world I started to read about the MMORPG addiction and about a lot of MMORPGs out there. And yes sir. There is a jungle out there!

Question is: What happens when the main resource of a MMORPG turns out to be the real $? Is there anyone crazy enough to invest in a totally virtual world? Well. We can search the answer back in time, in December 2004 when a 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island. The news will be a shock for anyone who dreams about buying an island. Fact is the 22 years old australian gamer bought a virtual island. With real money.

Isn’t that nice?

Source: BBC NEWS - Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
Game URL: Project Entropia

PS.

Join the 395581 people before you and get a life in Project Entropia.
PE GNP 2005 : 1.6 billion PED (160M$)

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Categories: Arhiva, Online
Tags: jocuri, mmorpg