Golf Club Wasteland Dev Offers $500 Million Version Of The Game In Elaborate Joke About Billionaires In Space
The developers of Golf Club: Wasteland, a golf game where human life is wiped out and the Earth is now a golf course for the super-rich, have launched a unique marketing stunt hoping to piggyback on the news about Jeff Bezos and other billionaires shooting themselves into space.
Demagog Studio’s creative director Igor Simic is said to have had a “wake up call” recently and is choosing to remove the game from sale to the public and will instead sell it to just one person. The price? $500 million. Simic will then use the money to fly himself off Earth before the “inevitable climate, financial, and political apocalypse comes for the rest of us plebs.”
“Golf Club: Wasteland started off as pure satire. The ultra-rich playing golf on the remains of civilization after initially fleeing to Mars as Earth crumbled thanks to consumerism, climate disaster, and Silicon Valley-fuelled greed,” Simic said. “Well, now I’m not laughing anymore. These rocket obsessed billionaires like Musk, Bezos, and Branson are already packing their designer bags, so it’s time I sorted out my own ticket off this doomed planet.”
The $500 million version of Golf Club: Wasteland is called the “My Ticket Outta Here Edition,” and only one person can buy it. “I’m hoping $500 million should be enough to at least get me a cheap seat next to the toilets for the final Mars flight,” Simic said. “I’ve been told the price also needs to be adequate enough so that the potential buyer can reassuringly brag about it to their friends and Forbes Magazine.”
Simic added–again, jokingly–that he wants to do the most environmental damage possible with Golf Club: Wasteland, and he’s going to great lengths to make that happen.
