People are willing to spend unreal amounts of money on video games. Look at all the folks who give thousands of dollars to “free” mobile games while balking at $60 retail releases. Or consider how many rubes have contributed to the ongoing grift that is Star Citizen, a game that lets you spend hundreds of dollars on fake spaceships in a game that’s never coming out. And when you fork over that kind of dough for a purely digital product, you need to be extra careful that it doesn’t totally evaporate.
According to the South China Morning Post (and reported by Kotaku) this nightmare nearly happened to an unfortunate Chinese gamer. This player spent $1.4 million on his character in Justice Online, an MMORPG, and nearly lost his creation due to a careless and possibly malicious friend.
Like many online social games, Justice Online has a marketplace component where players can lend and sell items. Remember the original Diablo 3? The game comes from NetEase, who now have a significant stake in Bungie, which makes sense considering how Destiny works.
But in this case of Justice Online, the original player lent his pricey character to a friend. The friend then apparently tried to sell the character back for about $55,000, but accidentally listed the price as $552 instead. This led to yet another player snapping up the great unintentional bargain before any other sales could go through.
Fortunately, it all worked out. The sale was reversed. The character returned to its original home, and the innocent frugal player who bought the character got over $12,000 in damages. The whole mess makes you realize why China maybe wants to enforce stricter gaming curfews, even if we disagree.
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