What are you talking about? You have no idea how game works.
By making sure that there are multiple ways of "evaporate" PED from game, they make sure that sooner or later someone will depo! Is that so hard to understand?
Ever did an upgrade to a item?
Ever participated on a player event?
Ever sold anything on auction?
Ever sold shares?
(check main post for more)
If so you are helping to remove PED from game. And that's all that matter, the more you remove the less Mindark have to payout!
Shrapnel
Boosted bp
Oil ring.
Ped not just evaporate, there is other side too you may forgot about.
EL this week 4.9m ped hunting globals.
How much would be the whole cycle including every loot, not just the globals?
15 million? 25 million? 50 million ped?
How much is shrapnel from that, 50%? 66%? more?
25 million total cycle with 50% shrapnel converted is 125.000 ped back to the game.
You still sure they earn tons of money on evaporated ped?
As i remember there is much much more ped in the game, than money in their account.
So they already just can hope the income wont be less than the withdrawals.
As i remember, they used to tell, it not happend before, why would people start to do that?
In top of that, remove the biggest cash income they have, the tt loss from players to be needed to deposit again and again, while they still paying out the withdrawals, wages and other cost's, while as a company, the owners still want to earn some money i guess, would end up in bankruptcy very fast.
Hard to belive you cant understand that.
But let see it from an other view.
From 2019 annual report:
you get an operating profit of plus 8.1 million SEK, i.e. Entropia Universe is a profitable product
8.1 million SEK is about 868.000 usd profit for the year.
8.680.000 ped, hope not lost you yet, it was the easier part.
Weekly ~167.000 ped weekly profit.
add up EL weekly hunting, mining, crafting globals.
8.302.000 ped, yeah, i know, its very far from total cycle, but even if the globals would be 2% higher for this week, that is 166.000 ped extra, would take their whole weekly profit.
And just the globals was 2% higher, not the whole cycle.
Would be enough for 100% return for everybody?
Return is already close to 100%, CLD removed what we pays, and the rest are just not distributed equally, some get more, the rest will missing what CLD and the profiting one's got.