Players of the 25-year-old MMO oldies Tibia invested 15,000 euros in an exclusive item
In the MMO oldie Tibia Online from CipSoft from Regensburg there are some exclusive items that actually only exist once. With the Blessed Shield, such a piece of jewelery recently changed hands for 12 billion gold pieces (the equivalent of more than 15,600 euros).
Do you know the oldest German online role-playing game? Of course we mean Tibia Online from CipSoft in Regensburg. In January 1997 the servers went online, and until today you can gamble the Free2Play MMORPG – As of now, more than 6,000 players are online, for comparison: The much younger New World only has 9,500+ players at the same time.
Special items for special prices
A special feature of Tibia is that there are some unique items in circulation that are actually unique. And that doesn’t mean that you can only create them once, but that they actually only exist once. These items include the Blessed Shield. This powerful shield was a gift from the developers in 1999 to the player Elleshar, who helped with the graphic design of the online role-playing game.
Just that sign recently changed hands again. The player “Rei dos Antica” is said to have paid a total of 12 billion gold pieces for the shield. Since there is a real-money currency in Tibia Online with the Tibia Coins that you can turn into gold (and vice versa), the value of the item can be easily determined: Rei dos Antica has invested the equivalent of 15,690 euros in the new addition to his collection (via Tibia Ferumbrinha and My MMO).
Fun Fact: As the developers five years ago An exciting infographic for the 20th anniversary of Tibia Online published, the purchase of a golden helmet was hailed there as one of the most lucrative trades between players. At that time “only” 500 million pieces of gold went over the counter, with which one could pay “premium” for twelve years.
Reference-www.buffed.de