Player Pays $330k (US) for Space Station in Project Entropia Universe

So this post is sort of old news, but I wanted to point it out because there is a serious amount of money changing hands. *Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat reports that an entire space station in Planet Calypso of the Project Entropia Universe. *This is a big deal for several reasons. First, it’s a lot of [...]

That guy that bought an island for $26,000 in World of Warcraft couple of years ago said that it already paid for itself.

While Storey's example is extreme, buying and selling virtual goods in videogames and virtual worlds is becoming mainstream. The virtual goods market in the U.S. is estimated to reach $1.6 billion this year, up from $1 billion in 2009, according to research firm Inside Networks. And the U.S. is just a part of the worldwide market, which some experts put as high as $10 billion; countries like China and Korea are major players.