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Pay to Play II - Project Entropia
Gonzago writes: "God knows how many hours I spent mining or chopping down trees while playing Ultima Online. The dedication (spelled a-d-d-i-c-t-i-o-n) I had to that game would have made me some serious cash if I applied it to a real life job. Now I can have my cake and eat it too! At least that's what the people behind Project Entropia would have me believe. Not only does the premise behind the game look cool, but players will trade amongst one another with real money. Anyone want to buy some armor?" There's an article on CNN which briefly covers the game's premise: pay the company for all the equipment you need in-game, and it all slowly degrades - Entropia, get it?
No one asked you
considering your lust for assfucking chincillas, i doubt youd even know what to do with a korean man's girlfriend. hell im not even sure you ass fuck any of those small animals properly, last i heard, you needed your mother to give you a handjob before you could gather up the confidence to blow your load into the poor hamsters.
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charlton heston is more of a man than yo
i bet you wont be able to get away with raping 6 year olds in the ass in this game. theres one thing you'll miss about real life.
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charlton heston is more of a man than yo
fuck you and your children, you assfucking jew
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charlton heston is more of a man than yo
This sounds very much like a scam.
Consider the user who was offered to beta test by paying $10... now, by reading the email, they are only being offered the chance to beta test the TRANSACTION SYSTEM by paying $10. There is no promise that by doing so they will actually be able to PLAY the game... in fact the message explicitly NEVER correlates the depositing $10 and PLAYING the game. It's very carefully worded.
Also consider Flooze.com. People put money into it by buying "Flooze" dollars. They could buy things online; it was essentially a debit account. However, Flooze went bust, and people lost their money. Those who asked for their money back, were informed that they were now considered creditors.
Consider a likely scenario:
Some scheming, criminally-intent individual comes up with an idea of jumping on the MMORPG bandwagon with a grand scam. They create a company, not quite paying attention to employment laws, and attempt to make a minimally satisfactory game to get people to jump on board.
The plan is this: people can put money into the game at a 1:10 exchange rate. However, they can take money out at a 100:1 exchange rate - put $1 in, get 10 PEDs. Cash in 100 PEds, get $1 back. Perhaps with a 30 day waiting period.
Now, in the initial 30 day window, this person or persons are hoping that many people will jump on board, at least 100,000, puttting in $10 or $100 each. That's a 1-10 million dollars. Now, a lot of money enters the system, and they then transfer the money out somehow (I've heard plenty of real life stories of creative financing/banking in the video game industry, in which I work; enough to know I would be very very very wary before investing in a company). After a month they declare bankruptcy, and disappear with the money. I wonder if international monetary transactions in small amounts like $10-100 are monitored?
Now, consider this "Pay $10 to help us test our system". Good way to raise a lot of money quickly when investors won't put money in. They aren't promising anything in return. It could be a sudden change in plans, getting greedy quickly. Or this could be where they intend to insert their $100,000 into the game.
Granted they could be trying to run it like Flooze.com or PayPal, and earn capital off the float. But PayPal had to resort to charging for credit card transactions, and Flooze went bust.
Perhaps the people behind it are criminal. Perhaps they are just criminally stupid. Perhaps I am completely wrong. But I know >I wouldn't put any money into the game or company.