GUY SPENDS $330,000 ON VIRTUAL SPACE STATION, KINDA

Ever wish you could spend a third of a million bucks on someplace you not only couldn’t live in, but also couldn’t even touch? Well, you could do what one guy did and spend the equivalent of $330,000 on the Entropia Universe MMO’s Crystal Palace space station. What do we mean by “equivalent”? Well, Buzz “Erik” Lightyear spent 3.3 million “Project Entropia Dollars” (or PEDs), which are exchangeable for 10 to a US dollar. So, while he may not have actually spent all those actual dollars, he could’ve exchanged those PEDs for a third of a million bucks instead (minus transaction fees). Now, he gets revenues from every sale on the station, but that’s still a huge chunk of space change.

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