How is the complexity of the software that it would cost a few hundred million? Web applications running on clustered servers shouldn't have that high development cost, unless there are some special requirements?
It sounds like no surprise, considering that some rare high-level items are traded around $3,000 to $4,000 US ingame.
Project Entropia has a unique business model. Project Entropia is free to download, install and use, and has no subscription fees whatsoever. Instead, we have a virtual economy within the virtual universe. This is based around a virtual currency, the Project Entropia Dollar, or PED. The PED has a fixed exchange rate to the US dollar, with $1 US equal to 10 PED. This means that all in-game trading is done with items and currency that have a real world dollar value.
Another unique concept is that a Project Entropia participant may exchange back virtual currency into real life funds, meaning they can make money playing. Other MMORPG developers often forbid the trade of virtual items between avatars using real money - we do the opposite and support it instead. One might say that we built the functions PayPal and Ebay supplies for other MMOGs into our system.
I allow text-only ads on my AdBlock list. It's a suitable non-intrusive compromise instead of cramming your entire browser display with huge slow-loading image and flash ads.
Advertisements still pay for the bulk of today's websites, but I'd like for them to move into more value-added services.
Take for example mcdeb.com offering web design, newspapers and real estate sites having for-pay classified sections, Linux websites offering consulting and selling Linux CDs, mozilla.org's donation and mozilla store, numerous vendor magazines offering branding for the vendor (Red Hat Magazine).
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Remember that AOL did donate a substansial amount of money to the Mozilla foundation. When you consider the amount of AOL subscribers out there and AOL's marketing reach, their action in basing Netscape on Firefox can only be good news for alternative browsers out there.
Rest In Peace Netscape, Long Live Netscape!
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An adequate replacement for MySQL on Windows. Can anyone say WAPP instead of LAMP?
How is the complexity of the software that it would cost a few hundred million? Web applications running on clustered servers shouldn't have that high development cost, unless there are some special requirements?
It sounds like no surprise, considering that some rare high-level items are traded around $3,000 to $4,000 US ingame.
Project Entropia has a unique business model. Project Entropia is free to download, install and use, and has no subscription fees whatsoever. Instead, we have a virtual economy within the virtual universe. This is based around a virtual currency, the Project Entropia Dollar, or PED. The PED has a fixed exchange rate to the US dollar, with $1 US equal to 10 PED. This means that all in-game trading is done with items and currency that have a real world dollar value.
Another unique concept is that a Project Entropia participant may exchange back virtual currency into real life funds, meaning they can make money playing. Other MMORPG developers often forbid the trade of virtual items between avatars using real money - we do the opposite and support it instead. One might say that we built the functions PayPal and Ebay supplies for other MMOGs into our system.
From this article in RPG Vault:l /
http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/552/552153p3.htm
I allow text-only ads on my AdBlock list. It's a suitable non-intrusive compromise instead of cramming your entire browser display with huge slow-loading image and flash ads. Advertisements still pay for the bulk of today's websites, but I'd like for them to move into more value-added services. Take for example mcdeb.com offering web design, newspapers and real estate sites having for-pay classified sections, Linux websites offering consulting and selling Linux CDs, mozilla.org's donation and mozilla store, numerous vendor magazines offering branding for the vendor (Red Hat Magazine).
Remember that AOL did donate a substansial amount of money to the Mozilla foundation. When you consider the amount of AOL subscribers out there and AOL's marketing reach, their action in basing Netscape on Firefox can only be good news for alternative browsers out there. Rest In Peace Netscape, Long Live Netscape!