Project Entropia's Universe Solidifies

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?"

Comments

The gaming rules I follow

[bl968]

If I pay for the game software I am entitled to play for free. Blizzard is a prime example of this in action and working..

If I get the software free I am willing to pay to play.

I am not willing to violate rule 1 or 2.

If they expect me to pay for the software and pay to play and pay for stuff in the game they must be totally bonkers.

Super-Geeky Keyword Ontopic Post

[philovivero]

So since no-one's ever heard of this game anyway, and it looks lame, I'm gonna bring up a keyword-related subject.

It's about universes and entropy.

See, a friend and I were wondering, what would the universe be like if the second law of thermodynamics were reverse: entropy didn't increase in a closed-system reaction, but DECREASED.

In any reaction, the potential energy after the reaction is slightly more than before. Instead of sugar dissolving in water, it would cause the water to crystallise.

Blah, blah blah. How would you cook a chicken? Or would you even cook? Maybe you would want to eat something raw or even rotton?

Instead of life being defined as a long battle against entropy against which you eventually lose, and your atoms scatter to the wind, life is a battle against order and chaos which you eventually lose, becoming a crystalline diamond.

Of course, all of this is just rough-draft preliminary rambling. What would the universe really be like? Because I'm sure I got a lot of that dramatically wrong because I've only thought through the ramifications one level deep.