Slack, meet jaw. Sometimes you just have to sit back and read.
Sold: One virtual space station for $330,000 in real money. It may sound insane, but the buyers and sellers here clearly believe there’s gold in the virtual world of Planet Calypso.
A little background: the space station is called the Crystal Palace and the buyer is the gloriously named Buzz Erik Lightyear. Like Linden Labs’ Second Life economy, players use virtual currency — in this case 3.3 million Project Entropia dollars — that they can exchange for real world lucre.
This video gives a sense of the place.
All the excitement is happening inside MindArk’s Project Entropia virtual universe game. This system includes the Planet Calypso virtual world, and here is where the Crystal Palace space station hovers. It’s been carefully built up to include thousands of intricate details, and recently went up for auction by Marcus Calendar the Estate Broker inside MindArk’s system, for an opening price of 1 Project Entropia dollar.
Via us: Interesting to note that the Swedish government recognizes Project Entropia’s virtual economy. In the flurry of top 10 lists and 2010 trends to watch out for that hit these tubes over the last month, few mentioned the growth and integration of our first and second life economies.
Good thing its never to late to add to a list.
