Some facts about Entropia Universe, formerly Project Entropia Each item ingame has a unique ID to prevent duplication. Items ingame sell for thousands of dollars. The best gun ingame 8-9k USD. The best medical kit ingame 13-15k dollars. There are item tracking sites that track values of items like stocks like www.mytwopecs.com You can own real estate, and tax other players for using it for hunting or mining. Recently three estates sold for 10-20,000 dollars each. You can make between 10-100 dollars a day if not more on these lands. Your virtual items are not owned by the avatars. You basically just have the right to use them. Everything is owned by the company and they retain the right to close your account for any reason at any time. Virtual Theft is a problem in game where trust and defrauded scams have led to many people loosing 3,000-8,000 dollars if not more. There also have been hacked accounts where user's accounts have been emptied of many thousands of dollars worth of items.