The Beeb is reporting that some frickin’ idiot … uhhh … online gamer … has paid US$26.5K to purchase an island. That exists only in an online game.
I know there has been a steady economy for characters and equipment in other MMORPGs like Everquest and WoW, but this raises the bar. Or lowers it, depending on your point of view. I mean, ye gods people. Go outside. Read a book. Interact with another human being. Something.
And could the name Project Entropia be more apropos?
If this is the wave of the future, I ain’t surfing. Words fail.
Thanks Garamond.