A laughing stock when he mortgaged his house in 2005, Jacobs now loaded and developing new virtual world.
Back in 2005, Jon Jacobs was universally derided when he mortgaged his house and spent $100,000 of real money on some virtual property. Now the only one laughing is Jacobs himself, after he sold his Planet Calypso properties in Mindark’s Entropia Universe for $635,000, according to GamePolitics.