The word 'Game' implies that there is an end. I haven't ever heard of a never ending game.
After a while, even if it started out as a game, will eventually lose it's meaning and become something else.
from EULA
2. Description
MindArk provides the Entropia Universe as a service, described as a virtual universe. The Entropia Universe is not a "game".
Entropia Universe is an online universe
Planet Calypso is a game, located in said universe
There is not simpler way to put it
Entropia Universe is an online universe
Planet Calypso is a game, located in said universe
There is not simpler way to put it
Incase anyone misses it now that we're necroing
Entropia is a platform on which games are run but not itself a game.
Where do ppl get the idea that entropia universe has been classed as not a game? Now MA has said "It's more then a game". That statment does not say that its not a game just that it also something else in addition to being a game.
Now if someone has an other statment that I haven't heard please post it here so I know where you get this idea.
You don't seem to get it. Entropia is not a game the planets are.MA said.
Project Entropia was sci fi adventure game with possibility of micro transactions (advertised and meant as in first vid firstly as the way to deposit). It was game without auction, without shops, without LA's and their taxes, without motherships witch you pay to travel, without any wiki or other internet info (well we had iirc) - all to discover and learn by paying for mistakes. It was game where mod fap was worth about 2k usd and you could obtain mod merc , imk2 or shadow for similar prices - it was time whem MA didn learn jet how to provoke big inflation (big MU) to force people to deposit more. It was time when we - first colonists worked together to survive against wild nature and rebelled robots - I mean a lot before MA transformed us to fight against each other as pkers or as traders.
It was time when skills were not sellable but part of game, not part of loot value and not as way to monetize avatar investments or pay to win strategy.
Then MA invented platform which will run under another platform (windows) which will allow to run various games together with old game renamed now in the first planet Calypso making space for future planet partners and other business like environment/vehicles/space simulations, education, internet shopping etc all in form of services.
As I remember from client, forums, advertisements and vids it go like this:
- sci fi adventure game,
- is not a game, (evading all questions or comparisons about cost to play with other mmorpgs)
- is more then a game,
- after many long years of brain washing now suddenly is a game again.
Well if is a game then for sure is The Game.
You don't seem to get it. Entropia is not a game the planets are.
MA said.
Project Entropia was sci fi adventure game with possibility of micro transactions (advertised and meant as in first vid firstly as the way to deposit). It was game without auction, without shops, without LA's and their taxes, without motherships witch you pay to travel, without any wiki or other internet info (well we had iirc) - all to discover and learn by paying for mistakes. It was game where mod fap was worth about 2k usd and you could obtain mod merc , imk2 or shadow for similar prices - it was time whem MA didn learn jet how to provoke big inflation (big MU) to force people to deposit more. It was time when we - first colonists worked together to survive against wild nature and rebelled robots - I mean a lot before MA transformed us to fight against each other as pkers or as traders.
It was time when skills were not sellable but part of game, not part of loot value and not as way to monetize avatar investments or pay to win strategy.
MA said.
As I remember from client, forums, advertisements and vids it go like this:
- sci fi adventure game,
- is not a game, (evading all questions or comparisons about cost to play with other mmorpgs)
- is more then a game,
- after many long years of brain washing now suddenly is a game again.
Then MA invented platform which will run under another platform (windows) which will allow to run various games together with old game renamed now in the first planet Calypso making space for future planet partners and other business like environment/vehicles/space simulations, education, internet shopping etc all in form of services.
well there you have it...
Well, I see Planet Calypso as more than a game, but it is a game nevertheless. A game with a real cash economy.
Where do ppl get the idea that entropia universe has been classed as not a game? Now MA has said "It's more then a game". That statment does not say that its not a game just that it also something else in addition to being a game.
Now if someone has an other statment that I haven't heard please post it here so I know where you get this idea.