[MUD-Dev] Pay for Item MMOG : Entropia article on Slashdot

[Marc Fielding]

[Justice Ocker]

> Banks also fall under different international regulations than a
> game.  They are treading a dangerous turf there and opening up a
> whole new can of worms.  Also they aren't offering poker,
> blackjack, or any other traditional casino games so they might
> have a hard time attracting the gambling crowd.  In the end I
> agree with you, I think it will be a spectacular failure along the
> same lines of the free ISP model.  It is an interesting concept
> though, interacting with the Internet through a FPS perspective.
> I would think it would be a bandwidth hog unless they tightly
> control patches to distribute new content.  Unfortunately with
> that method it wouldn't very dynamic.

Perhaps Entropia will serve the same purpose that most innovative,
over-reaching, and unfocused projects do: as a testbed for ideas
that will later be extracted piecemeal by others, adapted, and
properly implemented.

-Marc





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