Project Entropia has done it again. Not content with holding the record for highest-value virtual asset sold--the oft-quoted US$26,500 for Treasure Island--it has now taken that record and simply ripped it to shreds.
Richard Pretorius kindly alerted me to the fact that a space resort in Entropia just sold for the relatively modest US$100,000.
That figure is not a typo.
The amount is remarkable in itself, although may be explained by the resort's location, "amidst the treacherous but Mineral Rich Paradise V Asteroid Belt" and the fact that the developers see this as the "primary destination for Entertainment in the known Virtual Universe."
However, also notable is that the auction was supposed to go till December, but it was bought-out early. ("Hey honey, I just impulse-bought a Space Station...")
If Project Entropia didn't exist I'd have to invent it.
