The Daily Grind: What's your single most expensive in-game item?
by Krystalle Voecks 
Aug 4th 2008 at 8:30AM
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind
From spending lots and lots of gold on a flying mount in World of Warcraft, to blowing insane amounts of ISK on a rare ship type in EVE Online, there are all manner of expensive items floating around out there just waiting to be purchased. Some folks enjoy spending game cash on cool armor (or dyes to make armor much cooler than it was) or mounts. Others prefer to hoard gold and spend it on other things that are less common like paying other, better-progressed guilds, for runs through certain dungeons to achieve things like epic weapons or even special items like pets or riding mounts. Beyond the most obvious in-game items, you now have microtransaction models, enabling you to spend real-world money on your game trinkets. On top of that, we also have the items that come from things like trading card game codes -- the spectral tiger from WoW being a highly-sought-after example.
So what's your most expensive in-game purchase? What item could you just not live without?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bam! said on 8:45AM 8-04-2008
In DDO it's a +1 Vorpa returning throwing axe.
EVE it's currently my Hurricane battle cruiser, but I can't insure it yet so it's sitting in the station :\
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skalgrim said on 10:35AM 8-04-2008
I only play wow so I'm going to say 2 epic flyers for my two 70s but, next to that my biggest outlay (note, not item) was powerlevelling tailoring at 70, costing me nearly 4000g to make my PMC set.
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joe.levin said on 11:12AM 8-04-2008
Back in my WoW days, my most expensive item was Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros. Then Blizzard nullified its use so (amongst other reasons) I stopped playing.
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recursive said on 5:56PM 8-04-2008
Probably something mountish, as most gear comes from runs for me these days. Auction houses tend to make a cry a little.
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