Gamer drops $16,000 on Age of Wulin virtual sword

Insanity

This is why we can't have nice things

in the days of ftp mmos closing their doors almost as fast as they open, hope he got in writing if they close down in less than two years he will get a refund........

Did anyone check to see if this auction was for a charity?

Yeah, this is kinda crazy, but I can see it if people had "money to burn".

But we are not talking about paying to have about 30-60 minutes of playtime under a very large set of monitors in the roof of a mall or some mount in WoW that is ultra-rare. This is an unreleased game.

Granted, it was an auction and probably a way to drum up funds for developing the game (and it's quite possible some corporate folks asked rich people they know so this may've more been akin to "charity" for the company than anything).

I do remember Age of Wulin was one of the more interesting games coming out (with the craziest mounts I've seen in any online game) but PvP and still-to-be-tinkered action-based combat.

I could have made the same sword in 3DS Max for free dude.

Wow. So, is this game supposed to be awesome? Never heard of it.

This reminds me of a player who paid $69,000 for a Virtual Egg.

with this sword i will farm gold faster than anyone......

You know and I hate to say this...but in a subscription model, this would never be an issue (presuming it's not sub + MT's that is).

Well it was for charity so I won't go start badgering the guy.

I look at Age of Wulin is it look another one of the chinese fantasy mmo.

BRB, making a F2P MMO and then auctioning off one of a kind, powerful items to the highest bidder. Then stopping development on it and swimming in my piles of money. Then repeating the process all over again.

I have a feeling that this is a staged publicity stunt. No one drops $16K on a virtual item for a game that is still in beta.

I guess they already have their own Sword of a Thousand Truths.

Is this really a PvP game? I wonder if that was PvP item. Talk about pay to win.