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- In 2005, Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for US$100,000, being the most valuable virtual item ever sold at that time. Jacobs claims that he received an offer to sell the asteroid for US$200,000 the following day, but he refused. The asteroid space resort was named Club Neverdie after its owner's avatar name.
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Nov 14, 2010 · But Jon Jacobs has just sold a virtual space station he's spent the past five years managing for a whopping $635,000 in total, making over half a million dollars.
In 2005, Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for US$100,000, being the most valuable virtual item ever sold at that time. Jacobs claims that he received an offer to sell the asteroid for US$200,000 the following day, but he refused.
Nov 18, 2010 · Yan Panasjuk last week completed a transaction with Jon "Neverdie" Jacobs to buy a large portion of Jacobs' popular Entropia destination "Club Neverdie," including eight bio-domes, space...
Nov 19, 2010 · A gamer who made headlines when he bought a virtual asteroid for $100,000 (£56,200) in 2005 has sold it for $635,000 (£395,000). It is a new world record for the sale of a virtual object.
Nov 21, 2010 · Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs made history by selling virtual property for a reported total of $635,000. Club Neverdie is a virtual asteroid in the online game Entropia. The Entropia Universe is rare among MMORPGs , because it has its own virtual economy that has a fixed exchange rate to the real world.
TIL Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for $100,000. In 2005, this was the most valuable virtual item ever sold. This landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most expensive virtual item, which he later sold for $635,000.
