Entropia Universe comes to China: join up to save the environment

Posted Jun 4, 2007 at 5:51PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Titles, News Tags: Mindark
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Time to save the world! - Image 1Real money trading is not illegal in every MMORPG. In fact, Entropia Universe is all about making money or spending money to expand your experience.

After gaining much success in its homeland, the Swedish sci-fi game will be teaming up with Cyber Recreation Development Corp. (CRD) to reach the Chinese market.

Developer MindArk plans on making a server with 7 million user capacity to attract plenty of people from one of the biggest MMORPG markets in the world. Aside from expecting expecting 10,000 job opportunities, Entropia Universe is supposedly able to save the environment. You read that right: this MMORPG will save the environment.

We won't be seeing a virtual Captain Planet or something like that, but CRD corporate chief David Liu believes that "people will actually be able to work from home inside Entropia Universe... thereby decreasing the amount of pollution generated by travel."

Get a job and help mankind by playing an online game? Good luck to our Chinese gaming friends, and we hope you become successful in your endeavors.

Via Shack News

 
 
 

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by Genuine Entropia Universe Participant - 2007-06-11 20:03
» China and Gambling?

The entire concept of Entropia Universe is based on gambling PEDs (US Dollars) in various games of chance in the hope of greater returns, based on unknown and secret random algorithms.



If Entropia Universe isn’t supposed to be an online gambling service, what is the purpose of “Global” loot messages advertising loots received over the value of 50 PEDs, the “Hall of Fame” and “All Time High’s” other than to encourage players to gamble their PEDs (US Dollars) in the games of chance that are the Hunting, Mining and Manufacturing professions in pursuit of that elusive win?



The driving dominant factor for successful outcomes (a win) in the three playable professions in Entropia (Hunting, Mining, Manufacturing) is nothing other than a series of hidden random algorithms that determine a profit or a loss, with unknown and secret odds.



The obvious nature of the game is that the ‘House Always Wins’ at the expense of those paying for the privilege of a chance to spin the wheel/roll the dice/pull the lever/click the mouse and gamble on striking it lucky.

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