Quote:
Originally Posted by Aardy
I see lots of cash coming into the game when the shares are sold, but it wont be long before the big investors will want a return on their investment. Thats when the squeeze on the loots will happen (yes even worse than it is now!).  |
Please keep in mind that
MA does not make it profit from reducing loot. In fact, if you think about the way the system works, they make more money when players are looting. The more players do in the game the more repairs go up. I pay repair fees on unlimited finders and extractors, but when I hof my repair fees go way up. I also refine almost everything, so if I hit a vast crude oil it could cost me 25-30 ped to repair a refiner.
This is a sytem that has been working well for
MA these many years. Loots have not gone down, or if they have they haven't been taken away and put back into MAs pockets, because they didn't come out of MAs pockets in the first place. The only time the loot pool is reduced is when players win large hofs and there are many of those in every profession every day.
There are many very successful companies that have publicly traded shares. If you look at
EU, just the game itself, it will be in the best interests of the shareholders to continue the present model, attract more players and give participants as many different and interesting ways to play so that we will be encouraged to do things that will generate repair costs.
I think Entropia is just the tip of the iceburg, what will be most attractive to potential investors isn't going to be the game alone, but the potential, future marketplace that is China. The future is going to be very exciting.