Last December, a Project Entropia player, Deathifier, purchased an in-game virtual island for $26,500. According to the game's developers the 23-year-old Deathifier has already made his money back by selling land and taxing players for hunting and mining privileges—Project Entropia features a real cash economy.
Just recently, Jon Jacobs, another Project Entropia player, purchased a virtual space station for $100k. Jacobs plans to turn the orbiting station into a space resort that features dinosaur hunting—now there's an idea! Jacobs estimates he'll make about $20,000 a month running the resort and taking a cut of each dinosaur hide sold.
[via Gaming Steve]
