enhancing EU market for real world items?

[Fred Zed Gerard]

We all understand that almost all of our movements in this EU requires Ped. It is either MA has to give or maybe someone else. Everything on it seems all ended up to "we gonna need PED to do that or do this" I am broke or he is.

I don't know if there is a careful study done specifically on how things work out resulting from a gaming interactions among participants having real money involved among themselves. And of course many will become frustrated in the game, as the capacity of an individual to put in cash is limited to some extent according to how much he can deposit to play. If we are to view the flow of money in the mainstream of EU economy, it seems that most of the market transactions are base on luxury and extravagance of an individual. The object of in-world needs are relying only on the game requirements without the real life requirements. I appreciated EU efforts in putting real world items to the game as this will cater the real life need of a player in-game and someday may add up more. And EU may somehow become parallel with the giant websites creating a real market economy for the real world items. It can serve as a collection of information, a market, a world and everything. This was I thought this EU should be. But it seems as time goes on, it is merely becoming a world of gaming only.

Try to look into the internet trends, mostly Internet big incomes came from Giant Market Transactions involving Giant Companies from all over the world since Internet has developed into a cheaper and simpler options when it comes to marketing. I thought this EU is trying to revolutionize internet market in a way where everything is set in a virtual world instead of a websites. All transactions will be made through avatars, but as avatars are tend to be inclined to purely gaming only, it would then be far from even a dream that real a world market in a virtual world will be realized.

And we players, how can we expect big profit from gaming only? what if EU will become a fully developed market of many real world items too example a player can sell real world items too. Maybe it could help economy.

[Nikita.Brenda]

Right. I would be happy to buy a real Breer P5a and some laser cells. My husband sometimes is really annoying me.
May be regeneration or revive chip could be handy too, in case if he will beg a pardon.

[Cly]

... he meant something more on the lines of:

Company A wants to sell Ginger Bread Cookies in EU.

He is suggesting that perhaps the user could create a listing in the Auction, give it a Name (say like "Ginger Bread Cookies"), and list the cost in PED to buy this item.

Then if you buy it and pay him the PED he will ship you the real world item for your purchase.

Obviously, this requires address information and other things like contact details too, or at the least some sort of messaging system built by MA to enable communication between buyer and seller for these functions.

[Stelgim]

Originally Posted by Cly

Obviously, this requires address information and other things like contact details too, or at the least some sort of messaging system built by MA to enable communication between buyer and seller for these functions.

Yeah, but as far as I know most users have this information in their account when they signed up for Entropia Universe, if MindArk got the wares from the seller to their own storage (if they have one), they could then send it to the recipient

Correct me if I am wrong though

EDIT: And I believe there used to be real world items in Auction, like the Cash Card I think it was called (again correct me if I am mistaken), which was the reason I joined EU

[Fred Zed Gerard]

MA, You better bring ingmae forex trading if loot is not improving and we buy stocks in PED.

[AxeMurderer]

I think even now people can (and probably are) use to pay in PEDs for webhosting, graphic design or other kind of services.
As for real life items it will be harder, but probably someday when people stop buying those damn CLD they can buy even useless stuff with their CLD income.