Wowzers, who pays 30k for a virtual sword?
It's very common in pay-to-win games (look at Maplestory & other Nexon games)
The items are usually very rare, and very OP, usually because they were created through hacking.
created though hacking.. what?
I don't know about other pay2win games, but Maplestory was (is?) completely controlled by hackers. There were exploits which would let you duplicate items, apply infinite upgrades, hack stats etc. I remember they had these scroll things that would enhance the stats by a bit (with a very low % chance), but there was a chance it would destroy the item.
The hackers would dupe weapons, and scrolls, then apply scrolls onto weapons, until they were successful. Then they'd do the same thing all over, with the stronger weapons, until they ended up with a very OP, gamebreaking weapon, which they would dupe, and sell.
Now, there were certain hacked weapons which were not duped extensively. These would be a lot more expensive, because they had higher stats than other hacked weapons, or they were for classes which didn't have any other hacked weapons.
