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Would You Pay $60,000 for a Virtual Mount? No? Well, Someone in Ragnarok M Did - MMORPG.com News

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited January 2019 in News & Features Discussion

imageWould You Pay $60,000 for a Virtual Mount? No? Well, Someone in Ragnarok M Did - MMORPG.com News

There's always a lot of talk about virtual item prices, but today's news takes the cake. It appears that someone in Ragnarok M, the mobile version of Ragnarok Online, has forked over about $60,000....yes, you read that right...for a virtual mount called the Key of Heaven. The player-to-player exchange came via the Ragnarok M auction house and involved premium currency called Big Cat Coins. These can be purchased for real world currency at the rate of 6 BCC per $1.

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  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    I'm pretty much speechless here....
    Azaron_Nightbladehallucigenocide[Deleted User]Gobstopper3DWhiteshade92Truvidien88chocolate42069SabracArtaiosMaxDragonardand 10 others.


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  • BizkitNLBizkitNL Member RarePosts: 2,546
    And this...this is why companies want a piece of the mobile gaming market. While we here in the west boo at diablo mobile, some indonesian dude buys a 60k dollar mount in another mobile game.
    SBFordOctagon7711chocolate42069MaxDragonardgastovski1ArskaaaSolancerDhamon99
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  • jgDuffayjgDuffay Member UncommonPosts: 237
    let's just create a new internet without the crazy ?
    RhygarthWhiteLanternKrynt0kiamspamicuschocolate42069gastovski1rojoArcueidfrA6meNoxiaswandericaand 1 other.
  • AsheramAsheram Member EpicPosts: 5,072
    edited January 2019
    Money laundering, the guy that bought it is probably attached to the game in some fashion behind the scenes.
    PhryAzaron_NightbladeAsm0deusWhiteshade92Krynt0kInterituschocolate42069AethaeryndoomexMaxDragonardand 8 others.
  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    A wise man once said: "Stupid is as stupid does."
    chocolate42069AsheramYukmarc
  • BizkitNLBizkitNL Member RarePosts: 2,546

    Rhoklaw said:

    I love how at the top right of the auction house it states...

    "Play moderately and spend wisely"



    Oh, that's brilliant.
    chocolate42069Asheram[Deleted User]
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  • rodarinrodarin Member EpicPosts: 2,611
    Imagine if Star Citizen was mobile he would have raised a few million selling his jpegs.

    But say what you will I suspect people have spent more than that in that dumpster fire (that will never release) for something that may quite possibly never get made into  in game assets.
  • parpinparpin Member UncommonPosts: 220
    bad news for game industry indeed, as long as people like him/her spend absurd amount of money on garbage mobile games, more and more companies will shift towards mobile gaming.currently mobile gaming market is huge and it is getting bigger, sadly you will see more and more news for mobile games whether you like it or not.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    edited January 2019
    A mobile game, but lets not have any concerns about the effect mobile gaming may have on PC and Console.

    In less than five years time I don't see any Switch style hand held device being able to compete with smartphone gaming.

    In less than ten years time we may see games coming out on smartphones first then to other platforms. Just like back when people said "Well top graphics games will still come out on the PC first, not consoles" they ended up coming out on Consoles. Why? Because that is where the money was.

    You can make anything for mobile and it will sell, including games. So why not make your game on the sure bet money making platform and then port it to PC and Console afterwards? All the arguments about top graphic games not being possible/good enough on smartphones will be rolled out again and the industry will cut back on the specs the game demands and do it anyway. But we do have phones so everything is going to be just fine. :)
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  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    Asheram said:
    Money laundering, the guy that bought it is probably attached to the game in some fashion behind the scenes.
    What, people making purchases in a game to disguise a real world purchase, nobody would ever do that, right  ;)
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  • WhiteLanternWhiteLantern Member RarePosts: 3,319
    Can the funds be earned in-game? Most games have that ability.

    I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil

  • WargfootYVWargfootYV Member UncommonPosts: 261
    edited January 2019
    A month ago I was in a thread where people were complaining that a bundle of 35 games they bought for $35.00 only contained 34 game keys because one game was sold out. All the developers involved had donated keys to the sale.

    This was for a charity event.

    The contrast couldn't be greater.

    I'd rather hang out with people who spend too much on games than those who act as if a civil rights violation has occurred when they don't get games for free. And as goofy as it is to spend 60K on a mobile game - meh, I've seen the rich waste money on stuff twice as stupid.


    I actually find the big-tit anime art style to be more intolerable than the 60K price tag.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273

    WhiteLantern said:

    Can the funds be earned in-game? Most games have that ability.



    Not sure how long it would take to earn $60000 in game, do you have a spare lifetime? :)
    AsheramSolancer
  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534
    whales.

    doesn't make any sense, they just spend their money because they can.

    "I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"

  • WhiteLanternWhiteLantern Member RarePosts: 3,319

    Scot said:



    WhiteLantern said:


    Can the funds be earned in-game? Most games have that ability.






    Not sure how long it would take to earn $60000 in game, do you have a spare lifetime? :)



    If it can be earned in-game, it can likely be exploited.

    I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil

  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    There has always been a little bit of crazy in gaming populations but now there's a shit ton of it.

    Hi Star Citizen whales :)
    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”

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  • newbismxnewbismx Member UncommonPosts: 276
    edited January 2019
    Two week old game and virtual currency. I'm calling duping, publicity stunt, or outright bullshit.
    Yup tons of free advertising- Probably even in the mainstream.
  • WaanWaan Member UncommonPosts: 106
    As long as you can't trade them back for real cash, the coins aren't really worth $60000 are they?

    Unless this guy spent 60K on coins to buy the mount, then yeah, that would be something else.
  • H0urg1assH0urg1ass Member EpicPosts: 2,380
    I know it's hard to believe for a lot of working stiff gamers, but some people have more than 60 grand a month to spend in entertainment.

    It's the reason that so many people, like myself, really don't like games aren't all-inclusive.  I want everything in the game, to be in the game and attainable only by playing the game, when I buy it.  That way, we're all equal behind our keyboards when we sit down to play across the board.  What you do from there is up to you, but you can't spend more to be more.
    Gdemami[Deleted User]damond5031
  • eruexeeruexe Member UncommonPosts: 40
    Wrong computation from that site but still hell of a lot expensive.
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    https://www.seagm.com/ragnarok-mobile-eternal-love/ragnarok-mobile-reload-service?ware_id=31207

    422 BCC / $68.88 = 6.127
    So approximately 6 BCC per $1 spent according to my calculator. D:



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  • itsoveritsover Member UncommonPosts: 353
    its 6000, not 60,000 , the site is wrong.
    MaxDragonard

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  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    edited January 2019
    According to the source article, the mount cost 3.2M Philippine Pesos equalling 360,000 BCC which is converted to USD $60,980.80.

    https://gamingph.com/2019/01/key-of-heaven-sold-for-3195000-php-at-auction-in-ragnarok-m-eternal-love/

    Also:

    https://www.seagm.com/ragnarok-mobile-eternal-love/ragnarok-mobile-reload-service?ware_id=31207

    422 BCC / $68.88 = 6.127
    So approximately 6 BCC per $1 spent

    How are these numbers wrong?
    [Deleted User]frA6me


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  • HellscreamHellscream Member UncommonPosts: 98
    If i had 60k to blow like that it would not be on a virtual item that you still technically do not own good way to flush 60k down the drain.
    PhrySolancerGdemami
  • SmoeySmoey Member UncommonPosts: 601
    You can be speechless all you want but the fact remains that to some people this is chump change.
    Octagon7711

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