ITT: People who have never played with UAEsMeh if someone wants to spend $100 or $40,000 of their real money to make themselves feel better and more powerful in a virtual reality, then that's really their business. Just seems kind of silly when eventually the servers shut down and that $40k could have been invested into a mutual fund or ETF or something. He'll be standing there with nothing to show for it except the memories of being envied by the anonymous masses.
I guess maybe if you're filthy rich in real life and $40k is a drop in the bucket it wouldn't really matter. Still seems pretty pathetic though.