I once sunk thousands of dollars into that game. Once I bought a nice lakeside house for 500 (us) dollars and sold it for over $1100 - nothing compared to the players who spend thousands of dollars buying armor and weapons (mine was worth mere hundreds) but still quite amazing to me.

It is a pretty basic mmorpg, only got quests this year, but there's something extremely compelling about the game. Some people say the game is just gambling- I tend to agree.

There are massive amounts of money going through this game. It's both scary, and amazing to watch. And yeah, if you're a good businessman (or scam artist) there is a ton of (real) money to be made.