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I had absolutely no idea that it was still around. I'm really happy for the creators to hear that it seems to be absolutely flourishing. Awesome.
Dude...
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I once sunk thousands of dollars into that game. Once I bought a nice lakeside house for 500 (us) dollars and sold it for over $1100 - nothing compared to the players who spend thousands of dollars buying armor and weapons (mine was worth mere hundreds) but still quite amazing to me. It is a pretty basic mmorpg, only got quests this year, but there's something extremely compelling about the game. Some people say the…
I just remembered- I bought the house to set up a beauty salon. My profession was a hairstylist - one of the more elite profession. I spent well over $100 on a hairstylist chair (I had to watch the auctions for weeks before one even showed up), and people would pay $2 or more to have their hair cut/styled. For the first while I did it for free- just for the cost of hair gel and supplies. Crazy enough for you? Other '…
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I just remembered- I bought the house to set up a beauty salon. My profession was a hairstylist - one of the more elite profession. I spent well over $100 on a hairstylist chair (I had to watch the auctions for weeks before one even showed up), and people would pay $2 or more to have their hair cut/styled. For the first while I did it for free- just for the cost of hair gel and supplies. Crazy enough for you? Other '…
If hairstylist is considered an elite profession, what are the ones who build the space stations and asteroid bases and whatnot (like what this guy sold for $600,000+)?
Bottom line is the game is a ponzi scheme, using fraudulent high dollar transactions to lure in lower dollar players. Some of them will flip property to even newer people for a profit, but in the vast majority of cases there just isn't any "there" there.
You can just back of the envelope figure they are full of shit - no one is paying $500k for a fucking space station made out of pixels and stored on Oracle RAC.
Need any more evidence? They are also the geniuses behind "Planet Micheal" whose tagline reads: "In the grim world of Michael Jackson, there is only war" (I swear I'm not making that up)
Oh, that employee I mentioned? "Neverdie" aka Jon Jacobs? Yeah, he's the one that just "sold" his brilliant investment for "$600k"
The one good take away from all this is how easy it is to fool the gaming blogs/press with a $20 PR newswire release. That is Project Entropia's biggest skill and they do it damn well.
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/05/project_entrop...
I once sunk thousands of dollars into that game. Once I bought a nice lakeside house for 500 (us) dollars and sold it for over $1100 - nothing compared to the players who spend thousands of dollars buying armor and weapons (mine was worth mere hundreds) but still quite amazing to me. It is a pretty basic mmorpg, only got quests this year, but there's something extremely compelling about the game. Some people say the…
I just remembered- I bought the house to set up a beauty salon. My profession was a hairstylist - one of the more elite profession. I spent well over $100 on a hairstylist chair (I had to watch the auctions for weeks before one even showed up), and people would pay $2 or more to have their hair cut/styled. For the first while I did it for free- just for the cost of hair gel and supplies. Crazy enough for you? Other '…
Could someone conceivably hire third world people / turkers en masse to do this at a profit?
Previous large money transactions in Project Entropia have been shown to be PR manipulations ($100k "sale" from company to employee) or outright fabrications. There are plenty of references to these investigations out there on the net, though don't look to wikipedia, it's heavily astroturfed. Bottom line is the game is a ponzi scheme, using fraudulent high dollar transactions to lure in lower dollar players. Some of…
> The one good take away from all this is how easy it is to fool the gaming blogs/press with a $20 PR newswire release.
Fascinating. Got any thoughts or references on how to get PR newswire pieces picked up? Y'know, I mean without being a scumbag ideally.