If you’ve ever played MMORPGs or similar video games, you know that some people get very excited about getting an item or unlocking an area that they need to move forward in the game. However, what’s surprising is that many people, especially gamers, spend real Money to buy digital items!

You’d think it would be foolish for someone to pay $19.95 in a game they’ve already played for free on their phone. But the reality is something else. These kinds of costs are small transactions in the world of video games. Today, we will be talking about items that only exist in the world of online games and for which people have paid large sums of money.

10. Revenant Super Carrier ship

• Game: EVE Online
• Price: $9,000

The story about buying this item has a relatively sad ending. One gamer thought that buying a special spaceship in EVE Online would be the best thing possible. This game has a special currency called Interstellar Credits and it can be converted into dollars in the real world. So, when someone spends 309 billion ISK to buy a Revenant Supercarrier, it actually costs about $ 9,000. This isn’t a small amount of money, especially if buying it doesn’t lead to a happy ending!

In 2007, a gamer who had saved money to buy the game’s largest and most powerful spaceship eventually lost all his money due to a surprise attack. You guessed it, the ship was destroyed and could not be recovered! All this happened due to the presence of a spy in his online group.

9. Zeuzo

• Game: World of Warcraft
• Price: $10,000

Some people buy items such as ships and weapons, while others spend their money on game characters. Zeuzo was the name of one of the night elf characters in World of Warcraft, which a gamer bought in December 2007 for $10,000.

This transaction seemed simple. Once purchased, a player must shape and refine its character so that potential buyers can find it. This will take at least 600 hours. But Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of the MMORPG online game, took a different view of the deal. Blizzard took down the character within a few days after the sale, but apparently, there were no problems during the sale itself.

8. Echoing Fury

• Game: Diablo 3
• Price: $14,000

Diablo 3 (another Blizzard game) had a market where gamers could sell items and receive real money. When the market was active, gamers took advantage of it. That led to some earning thousands of dollars per month.

One such item was the Mech Echoing Fury, which sold for $14,000 online! Now that the market has been eliminated and people are still playing Diablo 3, the weapon is no longer worth a dollar, but at the time it was sold in this market, it was the most expensive item in the game.

7. Sword

• Game: Age of Wulin
• Price: $16,000

This item was purchased before it was released in the game. The man who won the sword in the auction for the trial stages of Age of Wulin in December 2011 did not use it until the following spring. For winning the auction, he received a license plate, which at least caused his friends to be jealous. Given that he spent $16,000 to buy the auctioned gun, it seems that this is the least he could get!

Age Of Wulin, developed in China, is an MMORPG game inspired by the teachings of Wushia of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Players perform adventures and martial arts, using swords and various other weapons to advance to the next level and in the overall game. It is much more popular in China than in Europe and North America, which is why many gamers have never heard of this game.

6. Global Offensive Skin

• Game: Counter-Strike
• Price: $30,000

When it comes to the most expensive video game items, they are all purchased for a specific purpose. Areas and locations in online games are bought because of their future benefits. Items such as weapons and ships have their own value in terms of stats. However, there are items such as skins that obviously have no special function in terms of gameplay and only change the appearance of the character or weapons. So, when most people see skins that they really like, they are willing to pay no more than two or three dollars for it. With every rule, there is an exception. One counter-strike player willingly spent $30,000 (in bitcoin) to buy a knife skin.

5. Ethereal Flames Wardog

• Game: DOTA 2
• Price: $38,000

Most people, no matter how rich they are, are by no means willing to spend $38,000 to buy video game items. But, there are always weird people who spend their money recklessly. For example, a few years ago, someone agreed to use that money on a commodity. In Dota 2, players can use messengers. Messengers are items that can move items from your team to base as well as from base to team. Sure, these items are important, but not enough to justify the cost. One gamer spent about forty thousand dollars to buy the game’s rarest messenger.

You may be wondering why a messenger should be so expensive. The seller explains that this item is a rare combination of the game’s most popular messengers with special colors and effects. Apparently, there are only 5 items or in other words similar messengers; So if you are one of the gamers that have one of them, you may want to sell it. However, these messengers are said to cost only about $4,000 these days

4. Amsterdam

• Game: Second Life
• Price: $50,000

We all can agree that online games have changed a lot since their inception. One of the most popular games since the early 2000s was Second Life. In this game, you create an avatar that lives and works in a virtual world that isn’t much different from the real world in appearance. Many players made a replica of Amsterdam and sold it on eBay for a high price. The sale of this virtual city for $50,000 made the Second Life game popular. The auction winner had a strong interest in the Netherlands. We do not know anything else about the person who won the auction, but most likely he had a special interest in the beautiful streets of Amsterdam.

3. Crystal Palace Space Station

• Game: Entropy
• Price: $330,000

Entropy is another fascinating MMORPG. The reason for its attractiveness is that players can pay or receive real-world currency in the game. For example, if a player owns something like a club that people visit, he can charge an entrance fee and earn money this way, or if he owns an island that people go hunting for, he can impose a tax! Some players have made a lot of money playing this game; For this reason, all of the top three items on this list are from it. One of Antwerp’s most expensive items was the Crystal Palace space station, which sold at an online auction for $330,000.

A virtual item costs $330,000, but it is definitely an investment for the person who purchased it. In fact, for every purchase and transaction made on this virtual space station, the owner received a sum of money as a tax, which allowed for a return on investment. While $330,000 may seem high, the next item on our list is nearly twice as much!

2. Neverdie Club

• Game: Entropy
• Price: $635,000

Neverdie Club is a very popular nightclub in the Entropy world. The club is located on a giant asteroid orbiting the Planet Calypso. Until 2005, the Neverdie Club was the most expensive virtual item in the game. It was purchased by John Jacob for $10,000. Exactly 5 years later, after dividing this virtual property into two parts, Mr. Jacob was able to pocket 635 thousand dollars! He sold one part of the club for $300,000 and another for $335,000 to a gamer named John Fuma Calvin. Jacob’s profit of more than half a million dollars proved that virtual assets can have a good return if managed properly.

1. Planet Calypso

• Game: Entropy
• Price: $6 million!

When Entropy was introduced, it was played only on the bed of a planet called Calypso. The planet was sold at auction for $6 million to SEE Virtual Worlds. SEE acquired the planet in 2011 from MindArk. In the deal, SEE was to take over the planet Calypso’s management as well as to add two new planets to the entropy universe. From then on, all the revenue generated on the planets through various methods goes into their pockets.

$6 million may be a lot of money to spend on a planet that does not exist in the real world, but according to MindArk, Calypso in 2010 received more than $428 million in player deals the year before the item was purchased. The purchase of the planet was definitely an investment for the company that wanted to manage it, but due to late payment, MindArk terminated the contract a year later and decided to give each plot of land on the planet to gamers for $100.

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