Most expensive virtual items

$26,000 for a virtual island? $1,500 for the right to ride a transparent tiger? Or how about $6,000 to pilot the biggest class spaceship in the known galaxy? While that sounds like a lot, virtual world enthusiasts are spending real money or their virtual equivalents in order to obtain these very things. Money.co.uk recently tallied up some of the most the expensive virtual items in existence. I’ve cherry picked three items that caught my eye.

World of Warcraft Spectral Tiger Mount

Pay $500 to $1500 for the joy of riding your own Spectral Tiger

A virtual riding beast that can only be redeemed by using a code off of a collectible trading card, the Spectral Tiger mount is one of the most coveted virtual items in the World of Warcraft due to its exclusivity. It’s one of those items you can’t get just by playing the game. Still for those players that must have the absolute rarest mount in the World of Warcraft, their wish can be fulfilled via eBay auction. Presumably, you’re buying the trading card and getting the virtual tiger as a throw-in since sale of virtual items are banned on eBay. Prices range from $500 to $1500.

Club Neverdie

Club Neverdie, a virtual shopping mall, disco and club in Entropia Universe. Only $100.000.

Club Neverdie is a space station resort on a virtual asteroid in Entropia Universe, a unique MMO where participants exchange real money for virtual cash called PED (Project Entropia Dollars) at a $1 to 10 PED exchange rate. Club Neverdie fetched 1,000,000 PED in an auction - that’s $100,000 for a piece of virtual real estate. Surprisingly, this wasn’t the first piece of virtual real estate that fetched this kind of money. In 2004, a virtual island was auctioned off for 265,000 PED or $26,500. A fairly comprehensive list of all the virtual things that have been bought with PEDs can be found here. Surprisingly, the owner of Club Neverdie also purchased an Entropia banking license for $90,000. Talk about a guy with a lot of money to throw around.

EVE Online Titan class ship

80 to 90 billion ISK (about $6,000) will get you your very own Caldari Titan.

Titan class ships cost around 80 to 90 billion ISK, the coin of the realm in EVE Online. Considering the months of effort it takes to accumulate such sums and the fact that Titans themselves take real time months to build and fit, expert players have estimated that such ships cost around $6,000. So consider that as you’re piloting your Titan, you could instead be putting down a down payment on a car, buying the gaming rig of your dreams or paying for a full quarter of college tuition. A number of Titans have been destroyed in game, with one player losing up to six Titan class ships. That’s $24,000 down the tubes.

For the full list of items, check out Money.co.uk.

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