> It's a pity

If there's a game that all of a sudden makes people enjoy it that much that they'd spend $30k on it as the rule not the exception, I'll be very worried that those people will retreat in the game from real life. It would go way beyond "I spent 10h straight playing GTA because I can do so much stuff in the game".

$30.000 is a lot of money anywhere in the world so it takes a lot to make a balanced person dish this kind of money for a game. Most of the world's population doesn't have $30k as their entire wealth.

You can make just about anything happen in meatspace if you're willing to piss away thirty grand in 6 months. That a purely entertainment budget of over $1,000 a week. You could fly to anywhere in the world for the weekend. You could do an irresponsible amount of cocaine. Throw lavish parties. Fund a pretty respectable gambling habit (it's like microtransactions, but they sometimes give you your money back!). Buy yourself a gun collection. Alternate between all of the above!