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[h=2]Mindark Makes It Easier To Play From Asia[/h] [h=3]MindArk partners with MOL Global[/h] Gothenburg, Sweden – November 5th, 2012 /MindArk/ – MindArk, the developer of the largest Massively Multiplayer Online Real Cash Economy (or MMORCE), announced today that it is partnering with MOL Global to add a new method of easy payment for their Asian customers. This partnership will allow players to exchange MOLPoints for PED, the virtual currency used in Entropia Universe.
“Two of our Planet Partners are based in Southeast Asia, and for many in that region MOL is the go-to portal for online gaming and entertainment, There are hundreds of thousands of gamers in Asia who could participate in Entropia Universe, and this partnership allows us to provide those potential players with a familiar and convenient method of payment”, said David Simmonds, CEO of MindArk.

MOLPoints is an online micropayment system developed and operated by MOL Global, one of the largest online payment service providers worldwide. This payment system enables consumers to purchase online products and services via the portal www.mol.com and pay at over 680,000 channels across more than 80 countries worldwide. MOL partners with over 200 online game publishers and social networks worldwide now including MindArk with Entropia Universe.

Entropia Universe is host to several different planets with their own themes and features, created and managed by independent developers known as “Planet Partners”. Two of these, Planet Cyrene and Planet Arkadia, are developed out of Thailand and Singapore respectively.! Planet Arkadia’s developers (Arkadia Studios) will be undertaking joint marketing efforts with MOL Global to bring this new initiative to all appropriate players. This will involve a new player acquisition campaign via MOL’s social media, website and EDM as well as distribution of Arkadia themed MOLPoint cards in Singapore.

MindArk is the developer and publisher of Entropia Universe, the largest Massively Multiplayer Online Real Cash Economy (MMORCE) game in the world. Players have no monthly costs, but deposit and withdraw real funds for their adventures on any planet in the Entropia Universe. For more information on Entropia Universe or to download the free game please visit www.entropiauniverse.com.

About MindArk
MindArk is the developer and publisher of Entropia Universe, a game space that encompasses multiple planet partners each with their own unique setting and gameplay style.! As the largest real economy Massively Multiplayer Online Game in the world Entropia Universe offers players the ability to participate in a unique virtual world where they have no monthly costs. Its innovative real money economy uses a virtual currency which has a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar. This allows players to deposit and withdraw real funds for their adventures on any virtual planet or in the real world. Planet Calypso uses a state of the art graphics engine to deliver the highest quality visuals in an MMO today.
For more information on MindArk please contact us at the email below or go to our website at http://www.mindark.com

For further information about MindArk, please contact:

MindArk Media:
David Tractenberg


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That's nice I guess... :)
 
Good news for all of us, I guess. More ways people can pay, may lead to more people paying to play, which will help us all.
 
Hmm, time to move to an Asian country? Getting really really envious here...
 
great news :) Hope this helps getting in more players.
 
If this can and will bring in new players, yeah, it's very nice! :))
 
Time to uncap the sweat gatherer skill !


Ooooooops, you did it already ....
 
Mistake or intentional to publish tractionprs phone number? :) :)
Nice initiative. Hoping for more players from Asia.
 
Selosse said:
If this can and will bring in new players, yeah, it's very nice! :))
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As you are from Thailand, you know anything about this MOL?
 
So, easier to play or easier to pay? It's not necessarily the same thing :D
 
Was it because of this new payment system you inplant now that we could not depo this last days.:scratch2:
Then i have to ask,whay did you not tell your players that they was unable to do depo because of this new system.:scratch2:
 
Svarog said:
So, easier to play or easier to pay? It's not necessarily the same thing :D
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Easier to pay to play.

Easier to play to pay.

Which one is catchier?
 
Is this system better than Paypal ?

(Well it can't be worse).
 
if you can use PayPal to deposit to MOL is this mean that now we can use paypal to deposit to Entropia Universe?
 
More players means more demand for items which means prices can recover!
Everything is running at 50%, a buyers market....
 
I couldnt find anything about transaction fees.


Bones
 
Now if they'd just put a server over this side of the world too ... :silly2:
 
Wondering what the MOL/Ped exchange rate will be. I can buy MOLs using local currency so if I can save myself the currency conversion cost this might be the way to go for future deposits
 
They have a $125 daily limit and a maximum of 3 transactions allowed/day.
 
KijkkiJikki said:
Wondering what the MOL/Ped exchange rate will be. I can buy MOLs using local currency so if I can save myself the currency conversion cost this might be the way to go for future deposits
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If you look on their USA page, 100 MOLPoints = 1USD. On their Australian page, 100MOLPoints - 1AUD.

And rather nicely, the MOLPoints wallet can be reloaded via BPay as well as at lots of local retail stores thru ePay.

One thing though, is that there seems to be no withdrawal feature on the MOL site that I can see. There's a MOLCard that seems to work like a debit card, but I think you might need to be in Malaysia for cash withdrawal :scratch:
 
Fees seem High

Ok, so I did a test run on MOL in Australia.

I loaded 75.00 AUD via paypal to my MOL Account, and the total charge came to 83.97 AUD, so there must be a load fee included, but I cannot find what the fees are published anywhere.

I deposited $75.00 USD of MOL, 7500 MOL points into my Entropia PED Card, and I only received 562.50 PED for the Deposit.

By all accounts, the fees are WAY WAY WAY too high to make this a worthwhile deposit option. I think we all lose enough ped without paying that level of fees to both MOL and MindArk.

You get zapped on both sides of the transaction, unlike Neteller which seems to be a much better deal.

Hope that helps people decided whether or not to use this option.

Regards,

Dakin
 
DakinGaros said:
I deposited $75.00 USD of MOL, 7500 MOL points into my Entropia PED Card, and I only received 562.50 PED for the Deposit.
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Ignoring Paypal to MOL costs, thats a deposit cost of 25% !!!!!
 
Deposit Cost

Yes indeed, 25% plus, it's not worth it. That is just my view.

I wanted to test it out, and it wasn't such a good result.

It suspicious they don't post their fees, but they clearly seem to appear in the transactions.

Bit of a FAIL!
 
To be fair, I don't think MA is partnered with this product for the Australian market, where we already have good deposit options available. It may well be targetted more for countries where credit card availability is more limited.
 
Agree

Hi Serica,

I agree with you, we have many more cheaper alternatives, my point was to say that it's a bit expensive for those of us down under to use as a primary deposit channel.

Regards,

Dakin
 
Bertha Bot said:
MindArk, the developer of the largest Massively Multiplayer Online Real Cash Economy (or MMORCE), announced today .....
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...:lolup: seriously, did they measure Eudoria + Amethera together ? Or whole space ?
 
shoti said:
...:lolup: seriously, did they measure Eudoria + Amethera together ? Or whole space ?
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They could have measured my apartment there are no other games lol

Any bonus items for using this payment method like there are for ukash?
In fact is there bonus rewards for any payment method other than ukash?
 
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