What you can buy for the price of a Pet Simulator NFT
Pet Simulator X has just sold it’s NFTs. But what good could they be used for instead of filling an already rich person’s pockets?
The hammer has slammed, the tokens have been sold, the damage has been done. Pet Simulator has sold it’s non-fungible tokens for a value of over US$10,000. That’s an impressive amount of cash for a potentially illicit purchase, but it’s one that many have been waiting to snag. This has led many to criticise the auction of these tokens as harmful to both the natural environment and the Roblox ecosystem. So, what else could we use this amount of money for?
What‘s the price?
Whilst the highest asking price that one of the Non-Fungible Token Definitely Centralised Tokens that sold for at the time was 99 Ethereum, the price that will be used for these calculations is the highest bid which is 4.5946 Ethereum made by FishyGames. Whilst I congratulate them for making such a purchase, it must be duly noted that it is a lot of money. NZ$27942.59 to be exact (I live in New Zealand, so calculations will be made with New Zealand dollars as it’s the currency that I’m most familiar with). So what else can you do with tens of thousands of dollars?
1.64 million Robux
That’s an awful lot of Robux. Imagine the number of limiteds you can fund, the amount of games you could launch and maintain, the number of players that you could make happy, the amount of content that you could produce from your new games and the number of UI designers to make the BIG Games NFT site look nicer. Let’s not dwell on NFTs though. You literally could pump out content that isn’t one or two videos and establish your footing in the simulator marketplace — a win-win for developers and players alike.
1,118 months of Netflix Premium
That’s equivalent to 93 years of Netflix. It literally lasts someone’s lifetime. Also saves on their retirement costs! Although at 93, I honestly don’t think your eyesight would warrant the extra cost of UHD. Or have the appeal of watching Squid Game. RED LIGHT!
13,971 sausage sizzles
If we take the price of a Sausage Sizzle to be $2, you can buy 13,971 sausage sizzles. That’s an awful lot of people that you could cook a feed for.
34,928 cans of baked beans
To go along with your sausage sizzle, why not crack open a few cans of baked beans? They’re non-perishable and able to feed many generations to come? Or just give the cash to the city mission and they can cook it and hire people, too.
133 keys to Windows 11 Pro from Microsoft
You could honestly get Windows 11 for the same number of users for cheaper. But where’s the fun in that? Not sure what the average user is going to use the features that come with Pro though.
Get an entire classroom’s worth of Kiwi children online
Here’s the kicker —someone could actually use the money to do a tremendous amount of good in the world. For about the same price that one pays for such tokens, one could get the average Kiwi classroom (~30 children) computers to do work on, both at home and at school, improving the educational outcomes of children and their families rather than dragging them down back into poverty again. During lockdown, kids have been forced to leave their education behind and become truants due to the lack of devices in their households, effectively putting their education journey on pause. It’s time that we as humanity do better.