Wowzers, who pays 30k for a virtual sword?
Its quite common, try Second life and you can see people selling cars and houses for way more then that....
Well hold on right there, you can convert second life money into bitcoins, you can't do that with most other games.
but the main point is "who the fuck pays 30k fiat for a digital item thats nothing more than a drawing attached to some ingame stats?!"
The same jackasses that Buy gold
This is not normal in my perspective. A few thousand if someone really is into it or as an hobby/whatever, but over 5-10k it's insane..
IMO paying more than ~50 bucks. Once! For any Game is insane.
Also a reason why I can't play new games anymore. Either you get over this thanks to DLCs coming out only weeks after release, or you end up with a incomplete Game.