Entropia Envy Leads to Island Auction with Frills Attached.

by Alphaville Herald on 10/12/05 at 11:57 am

Thanks to Zero Grace/Rat Boy/Tony Walsh for this pointer. I’ve often wondered if it didn’t chafe Philip’s behind to see the eminently lame Project Entropia score big publicity for its island auctions. I guess it did, because now LL is gunning for similar publicity (and observe: we enable them in the enterprise!).

Here is the deal. Kremlinden Lab is auctioning an island on eBay, and offering the following sweetners.

120 Hours of design and building development to build your dream island valued at $6,000
A year of paid maintenance fees valued at $2340
20 Basic Second Life memberships for your family and friends to join you valued at $228
-Includes access to events, shopping, building, scripting- everything you can do in Second Life
-L$50 Linden a week stipend for in world purchases
20 Premium Second Life memberships for your friends and family to join you valued at $3620
–Includes all the features of a Basic membership
-Includes L$500 Linden a week stipend for in world purchases
-Ability to purchase 512 sq.m. of land on the Second Life mainland and invite your friends over

Bidding starts at $1. Rat Boy is unimpressed.

11 Responses to “Entropia Envy Leads to Island Auction with Frills Attached.”

  1. urizenus sklar

    Dec 10th, 2005

    I bid $20. I guess that doesn’t meet the reserve. :(

  2. 782 Naumova

    Dec 10th, 2005

    Bah…. Who’s willing to bet that it’ll be a large SL developer who purchases it?

  3. Fallen Hasp

    Dec 10th, 2005

    It isnt worth 20 dollars.

  4. csven

    Dec 10th, 2005

    If it doesn’t meet the reserve (and it isn’t rigged), this could backfire.

  5. Urizenus Sklar

    Dec 10th, 2005

    I have to figure they have the value of this dialed in pretty well — I mean its not like they don’t know what land is worth. Land barons will bid accordingly. Any land barons out there want to give us a guestimate of what this is really worth?

  6. Walker Spaight

    Dec 10th, 2005

    “20 Basic Second Life memberships for your family and friends to join you valued at $228″

    If Basic memberships are free, how can 20 of them be worth $228?

  7. One Song

    Dec 10th, 2005

    Not even gonna dignify your comment with a reply comment Walker, figure it out for yourself, why they would say something they are giving away for free, suddenly not free.
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    Anyways, I wonder if Anshe Chung, will be bidding for this. Rofl.

    On a serious note, to be completely honest I kinda feel for Anshe, but it’s not like I didn’t warn her about something like this about 4 months ago during a private conference.

    They did shit to One Song/My Fairplay, GOM, she was the next one up on the list. And thats exactly what I told her then. I just hope she finds a creative way to recover her losses.
    Although if I were her I’d reduce my invenstments in SL by 4 1/5ths, i.e. Cash most of the money out.

  8. Prokofy Neva

    Dec 10th, 2005

    Are you guys sure that this isn’t some fake thing to stir up controversy and set the stage for whisper campaigns about all of SL itself maybe going on the block? Did the ebay guy renew his VC investment again this year? Is it the end of the fiscal year? Or?

    And could it be someone other than LL putting up an ad for an island?

    Anshe has posted on the forums after trying to contact the emails listed etc that it seems odd and maybe not LL itself.

  9. Prokofy Neva

    Dec 10th, 2005

    Uri, don’t forget that if the 120 design hours are by any of SL’s top architects, it could really provide some kick-ass content, some kind of special sort of world like the Elf sims or Ansheland themed sims, and that means that it could drive traffic to the island and the owner could be on the developers’ list to get more US cash dollar awards. 120 hours actually isn’t very much as you well know from running an island. SL work is so painstakingly and so filled with borks and crashes and LSL breaks on patches and prim drift etc that they could well spend longer making a really nice them but 120 is still pretty good.

    Also don’t forget that if the 20 premiums take the 512s and flip them, let’s say they get lucky and get $3500 per parcel, that adds to the value.

    Still, I don’t see how it is worth much more than $10,000-$12,000. They’d have been better off selling it with a kick-ass build, malls, vendors, casinos etc already put in for traffic.

    Unless the idea is to have just a quiet getaway for your extended family and friends. Then if you have $10,000, you might rather spend it going to Cancun or something or buying a time share.

  10. urizenus sklar

    Dec 11th, 2005

    bidding is already over 4K, with 8 days left to go. Hasn’t met reserve yet.

    BTW, for those who haven’t been following the discussions on the Linden Forums it is a real Linden operation, with Wilder Linden in charge. See the forums for the obligatory gnashing of teeth and rending of garments.

  11. whatevr

    Dec 13th, 2005

    One Song good grief get over it already! No one cares. You are not the Legend you think you are.

    You have been banned for how long?
    And you still come to these boards crying “woe is me, LL banned me because I stole some slut’s money and land”

    You deserved it.

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