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Originally Posted by Montaque
Corect me if Im completly out in the wilderness here but as I understand this is a regular investment deal u are running. One of the companies you are supposed to invest in is MA and there is/will be other companies aswell! So where does the PE play its part? As I recon not any stockmarket as of today accepts pedīs for payment. To me this investment company is actually going to be active in the real-world stockmarket and there for itīs completly wrong forum advertising, I cant see how this is related to the gameplay at all?
Hopefully ppl understands what my point is since I got quite confused reading the replys and the on-going discussion.
If Im wrong so sorry but I need sum explanation |
Bridge (their 'ordinary people' investors) buy Mindark
PE AB shares, shares are a way or raising capital (money) for a company, in return for the money they put in they get a 'share' of the company, if the company does well, the company is worth more, so their shares are worth more, profit.
With more capital Mindark can invest more into the game, advertising, etc, making for a better game, better game and better advertising=more players, more players=bigger game,bigger game=Mindark does well,Mindark does well=Bridges share's are worth more, profit.
simple way of explaining it.
Bridge, like knuckles so delicately put it, is not your standard financial institution, 1. It's based in Belize, although a large majority of it's members are European, this could be, and probably is because of either tax reasons, legal reasons, or both. 2. It's a network of people, who invest in companys Bridge approves of tells them too, so instead of pooling the money and investing as a block, each investor invests seperately. This is an interesting set-up, lots of issues, some of which are more fishy than others, but lets not go into that...
But if
MA recieves a lot of capital, and is able to improve the game, and advertise, that's good, so let's not judge before we know all the facts, eh Knuckles?
But I see where you're coming from...