A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in the computer role-playing game Entropia (RPG). The guy hopes to make the money back by taxing other MMORPG'ers to build and mine on his island.
This just goes to show how popular MMORPG's have become over the past 10 years and marks a new level of fanaticism and popularity for the genre.
The article goes on to say that economists calculated that these massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have a gross economic impact equivalent to the GDP of the African nation of Namibia!
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Whoa, sorry to say but you're kinda late. I think this was already posted somewhere. Showed it on my local news a month or 2 ago.
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yea he's right you are a little late
but then again as they say better late then never"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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What's the point of that? I'd just want to see a .hack//world somewhere...named wierdly...or something, I want to be able to cover my eyes with glasses that will over-ride my whole eyes and be in the game itself...
Is that too hard to develop?
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It hasn't been posted on this forum though has it?
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im sure i saw it in this forum a while ago
maybe it was another forum though"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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I saw it on this forum. I know that for sure. Gotta go search. I'll be back. That's wierd. I know I saw it in the PS3 forum area. But can't find it. Oh well, doesn't really hurt to make another topic.
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I made a thed about it, but morph bet me to it so dont bother, you'll be wasteing your time
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no wherever the thread was that i saw it in was a long time ago
must of been on a different forum a suppose"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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I have seen this on this mentioned on these boards before.
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Just been backed up. Think it got deleted. You might want to check the moderator logs on the admin page. To see who deleted it or something. If you didn't clear it.
Originally Posted by Blake
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It's not a big deal...morph just wasnt aware of this being discussed before, besides he's "king" like he cares what anyone of us thinks...
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Originally Posted by Blake
It's not a big deal...morph just wasnt aware of this being discussed before, besides he's "king" like he cares what anyone of us thinks...
Sorry for posting this when it had already been posted before then people. I personally had not seen it on these boards before and the article I linked to was fairly new so I had no idea it was 'old news'. Anyway, I guess even Admin make mistakes.
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PS3 announcements
Sony has said 2 announcements will be made next week.
Spong is suggesting one will be made on Monday - so if everyone could keep a look out.
The neogaf people are saying there'll be one on Wednesday too (which is the 1st day of Leipzig GC).
According to Spong Sony's listened to all the criticisms from E3, so hopefully we'll get something good.
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