10 Most Expensive In-Game Items EVER

10. Javelin - Star Citizen ($2,500)

Star Citizen's Javelins are one of the best examples of gamers trusting in the 'long-term investment' model. Whilst it certainly wasn't the first title to have in-game items double up as currency, the amount developers Cloud Imperium Games have been able to raise for a game still in development is staggering.

The items that have made the biggest splash over the course of the game's lifetime have been Javelin Destroyer spaceships.

According to Cloud Imperium, these 1,132-foot-long Javelin Destroyers come with four primary thrusters, private rooms for the captain and officer, a hefty hanger bay capable of housing a Gunship, twelve manoeuvring thrusters, a heavily armoured bridge and a lifetime insurance warranty.

Players were also told that these ships were 'battle-hardened', meaning they would also have to fork out on the missing twenty gun turrets and two torpedo launchers. The end total needed to get these ships in working order? $2,500 real-world US dollars.

Not that that stopped the game's investors, however; within a minute of the auction going live, all two hundred Javelins had been sold, raising over half a million dollars for Cloud Imperium Games.

All of this in a game that STILL hasn't been released, even after a decade in development.