And I thought the guys who spend $700+ on a beefed-up WoW character were bad.

According to Electronic Theatre, some buffoon with a wallet the size of a mid-sized, suburban home paid nearly 70 grand for a “Virtual Egg” in the game Planet Calypso, an MMORPG I personally hadn’t heard of until this very moment (go figure).

Apparently Planet Calypso is the rich man’s MMO, working the same exchange rate as the U.S. dollar. What does this mean? It means that if you have any sense, you’ll probably never play it—well, unless you’re this guy.

The current owner of the most expensive egg in gaming history is none other than David Storey (in game: Deathifier), a poor-minded man who’s family will probably leave him once they learn about his “investment”.

Then again, maybe he has nothing to worry about. I mean, he is the owner of the in-game “Treasure Island“. That’s like being the REAL owner of Treasure Island, only not at all.

In my mind, this story closes with Jon Jacobs (in game: NEVERDIE) laughing his way to the bank, having purchased the egg back in 2006 for a rough ten grand. That’s a 700% profit and the rights to rub his money in the face of anyone who laughed at his investment four years ago.

Best-case scenario: the egg hatches into massive amounts of stock in the company that publishes Planet Calypso.

Worst-case scenario: it hatches into this thing.

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