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Project Entropia's Universe Solidifies

Posted by timothy on from the sweden's-largest-software-project dept.

Psyiode writes "Swedish interactive entertainment developer MindArk today announced the virtual universe Project Entropia is going gold on January 30th 2003. If you'll recall, Project Entropia is a MMORPG where everything is purchased with real money and slowly degrades during use. Could this be the way most online games will be played (and paid for) in the future?"

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  1. I'll tell you how this is going to turn out... by danny256 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ok, so the way the game works is that if you kill and steal from someone, you become an outlaw, and then people can kill/steal from you without becoming an outlaw, so you're going to be a target. What is going to happen is a gang will form of the top 10-20 players who will just go around killing, stealing from and dividing up the goods of every other player in the game. As far as I know, there is no reason this wouldn't happen. Its like living in a world with no police, it would just be large gangs.

  2. Beta Testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I beta tested this game when it was initially released to the public, I downloaded the installer and could _not_ get it to run. I emailed tech support a bunch of times, and they could not help me - finally I found out the .cab files had not even been extracted by the installer. I'm not trusting a company who has spent "15" million dollars and can't even get the installer to work correctly.

  3. Re:Real money theft by Dusabre · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not EQ - Legacy, not Japanese - Korean and I haven't heard of any driveby's. Though one guy did get beaten up in a bathroom but I think that's a healthy example way to exercise muscles that have been atrophied by hours of virtual crack. Or not.