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The real-life housing market might be in the dumps, but a Hollywood real estate mogul is making a killing in the virtual world. Jon Jacobs, aka “Neverdie” in the massively multiplayer Entropia Universe, just sold a virtual nightclub for the actual price of $635,000.
If you had $635K in your pocket would you buy a nightclub in a video game? Yet the guy will make back all that money and more in a few years. I tried that game and every item in the game cost real money but any money you make in the game can be put in your real bank account.
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Jacobs was making around $200,000 in actual cash every year from players purchasing virtual goods and services, Forbes explains.
The guy who sold it bought it for 100K back in 2005 and was making 200K a year on average on it. Not only that but now that same guy who sold it just bought a planet in the game for 6 Million O.o
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Jacobs raised $6 million in funding for Rocktropia and is looking to raise a second round soon.
What kind of game is this? I mean I assume we are talking about real money? I cant check the link here from work. But who would spend that much money on a real game?
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