[MUD-Dev] Project Entropia

[the_logos at www.achaea.com]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, John Vanderbeck wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <the_logos at www.achaea.com>
> To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 10:05 PM
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Project Entropia
 
>> This graphical mud has a nice idea that extends Achaea's business
>> model back the way it came from. Not only can you buy credits with
>> real money (as well as get them via various in-game methods), but
>> you can trade them back in for real money.

>>   http://entropia.stratics.com/content/preview/preview.shtml
 
> We had some interesting in depth discussions about this project over
> on the Game Design list, where one of the members is on the project,
> about a month ago.
 
> If anyone is interested, I could post some of the thread over
> here. I still haven't gotten around to making archives of the list
> available online, like Mud-Dev is.  I just don't have the time :)

Yeah, I'd be quite interested to any defences from the Entropia guys. They
seem to be making a ridiculous number of blatantly obvious, serious
mistakes, but if they have backing, they can't be as out of the loop as
they appear to be. Their system pretty much guarantees, at present, that
they will get totally screwed when people start defrauding them by
fraudulently generating credits in the game and having them turned into
real money, or when people start using stolen credit card information to
wring money out of them.

--matt

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