$50,000 DLC item in a game?
This guy is an asshole.
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Chlor wrote...
EVE has only had in-game items for real cash for like a year or two, and the most expensive one is 60$. Given, players sell and buy in-game stuff outside the game for cash all the time, and that might have been the case.I was wrong, it was something for an MMO called Planet Calypso, and it sold for 330,000$.
And to attempt to add to the actual topic a slight bit, aside from this being a social experiment, I consider it Molyneux just attempting to make back some of the profit he probably lost by leaving Lionhead/Microsoft. Outside of that, I agree with everyone else, it's just a social experiment, and nothing to get too bent over.
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This sort of has my opinion in it about this.
"Some people think I scammed people. Here is an equivalent scam in the same terms that pricing an app on the appstore.
Me: "Hey, I'll give you this pencil for $399.99"
You: "Ok"
Me: "Thanks"
That's it, how is that a scam? If you ask someone for something, and they give it to you knowing that the value of the item you are giving them is much less than the price being paid...then they either really want it..or they have more money than brains...or they just want to give you $399.99. As far as it being unethical, etc...that's hilarious. I mean seriously, who in their right mind would pay $399.99 for an iPhone game thinking it was "Worth that". That's more than Xbox 360 or a PS3 a Netbook but only slightly less than an iPad."
"Some people think I scammed people. Here is an equivalent scam in the same terms that pricing an app on the appstore.
Me: "Hey, I'll give you this pencil for $399.99"
You: "Ok"
Me: "Thanks"
That's it, how is that a scam? If you ask someone for something, and they give it to you knowing that the value of the item you are giving them is much less than the price being paid...then they either really want it..or they have more money than brains...or they just want to give you $399.99. As far as it being unethical, etc...that's hilarious. I mean seriously, who in their right mind would pay $399.99 for an iPhone game thinking it was "Worth that". That's more than Xbox 360 or a PS3 a Netbook but only slightly less than an iPad."