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Posted By:
BSantos
Jan 13, 2005
 A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 on an island that exists only in a
computer role-playing game (RPG).
The whole history at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4104731.stm
Category: Money, Places; Replies: 4

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Alex
in San Diego
 Member
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 | 10:28 AM
Sounds like a candidate for Online Gamers Anonymous.
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
 Member
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 12:12 PM
Wow... and yet, this guy might be able to make more money by selling the land in plots. Unless the servers crash or the company goes out of buisness.
Glamcat
Member
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 | 02:59 PM
WOW! That's all I have to say. big surprise
Beasjt
in sPAIN
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 | 01:33 AM
A dutch weekly "Nieuwe Revue" (http://www.nieuwerevu.nl/) had a great idea this week. Included with their magazine (circulation 70.000) was a little bag containing 2 seeds for weed/grass and a manual how to grow it with the promise that if you followed the instructions you would have a stunning 250 grams of weed in june...
From what I´ve read on the dutch blogs was that everybody complained about crushed seeds. Yesterday the major supermarkets ordered their staff to remove the seeds from the magazine before putting them up for sale.
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