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What kind of crap idea is that?
What worries me even more though, is probably players of that game will pay to get into the 'virtual club' and spend the rest of their night making their character dance next to vaguely female looking characters while sipping on a dash of shandy.
Playing things like WoW yeah, but starting to turn it into an "alternative to real life"?
Please...
What kind of crap idea is that?
What worries me even more though, is probably players of that game will pay to get into the 'virtual club' and spend the rest of their night making their character dance next to vaguely female looking characters while sipping on a dash of shandy.
Playing things like WoW yeah, but starting to turn it into an "alternative to real life"?
Please...
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monkey_man wrote:
> It sounds quite interesting. Think, if enough people do it, they'll
> have an actual economy.
eCon? O my!
> It sounds quite interesting. Think, if enough people do it, they'll
> have an actual economy.
eCon? O my!
yeah safe peeps wat u up too
Virtual World where people use real cash? Hmmmmmmm........
deadman600 wrote:
> yeah safe peeps wat u up too
ignoring you
> yeah safe peeps wat u up too
ignoring you
Smedlos wrote:
> Virtual World where people use real cash? Hmmmmmmm........
Indeed. It's interesting that this chap isn't questioning spending £100,000 (or whatever) on a 'virtual' space station, in a non-game with only quarter of a million players. Even the best games these days usually only last for a maximum of 5 years. Something tells me his next big investment will be to get another 'real-cash-virtual-world' game in development.
It's ultimately pretty sad for the guy, I mean personally I'd be buying something very real, and very fast with that kind of money. I guess even the nicest car in world can't stop you from being a complete geek though, poor guy.
> Virtual World where people use real cash? Hmmmmmmm........
Indeed. It's interesting that this chap isn't questioning spending £100,000 (or whatever) on a 'virtual' space station, in a non-game with only quarter of a million players. Even the best games these days usually only last for a maximum of 5 years. Something tells me his next big investment will be to get another 'real-cash-virtual-world' game in development.
It's ultimately pretty sad for the guy, I mean personally I'd be buying something very real, and very fast with that kind of money. I guess even the nicest car in world can't stop you from being a complete geek though, poor guy.
UPDATE: After spending nearly 4 hours downloading the damn thing last night (over broadband - so god knows how big the files are) it wouldn't work on the computer, even though it has the minimum spec. And I'm not going to bother trying to get it to work.
Hmmmm.
Do the simple thing and set it to run in the smallest screen possible and turn every setting to the lowest.
It should run on the minimum spec then.
Do the simple thing and set it to run in the smallest screen possible and turn every setting to the lowest.
It should run on the minimum spec then.
What sounds stupid to me is how a "Virtual Space Station" could possibly be worth £100,000. What is it that he's paying for? The artist for designing it? The servers for bandwidth/user-base?
Sounds like expense for the sake of expense... :-S
Sounds like expense for the sake of expense... :-S
Well some games cost a lot to make now.
I think I agree with the viewpoint that this is going to far, because theres escapism, then there's plain insanity.. still, if thats what the guy wants to do, guess it's up to him.
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