Many people might balk at the idea of paying even a dollar for virtual cow in a game like Farmville. But Jon Jacobs has just sold a virtual space station he’s spent the past five years managing for a whopping $635,000 in total, making over half a million dollars. Who would devote so much time and investment into something that doesn’t exist in the real world?

via Meet The Man Who Just Made A Half Million From The Sale Of Virtual Property – blogs.forbes.com

Hmm, maybe I’m going about this all wrong…