Virtual World Oligarch

By Leo Gura - September 8, 2025

I used to be a virtual world oligarch.

Back in 2003 I was very active playing an early MMORPG called Star War Galaxies. Through hard work and clever business exploits I became one of the wealthiest players on my server. I had hundreds of millions of credits and used my wealth to easily make more wealth through clever trading. I had so much money I started selling in-game money for real-world dollars. I also flaunted my wealth by spending on elaborate, mind-blowing displays of rare valuable loot. I had a shop/museum that displayed piles of the game’s rarest loot, equivalent to walking into someone’s house and seeing a pile of diamonds stacked to the ceiling. I meticulously arranged every ‘diamond’ in the pile to impress my customers. I basically role-played as a selfish, greedy, oligarch billionaire and it was super fun and exciting for the ego.

That was just a game, but that experience allowed me to understand how real life billionaires play the game of life. Whether its virtual or physical makes no difference, the psychology and principles are the same. Must get bigger yacht.

By playing that game I got that itch out of my system, so now I can devote my real life to what really matters: Truth.

Virtual worlds present an interesting way of burning through karma. Too bad virtual worlds are so rare these days. A virtual world is not the same thing as an online video game, it’s something more. The potential of virtual worlds has gone almost untapped. Virtual worlds are a powerful tool for teens and young adults to explore various identities.

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