Creative Kingdom & Thai Government Collaborate on Landmark Cyber City in Entropia Universe

[Morat]

Sooo - as I read it these will develop content for people who want to develop planets - so no new planets in this deal - and they were approached by Mindark rather than vice versa. Well I suppose its nice to see MA being proactive.

And MA is set to rival WoW - well WoW is not my game but I think I that its a bit soon to be making that claim (see their user figures and profits).

Sad to say there have been so many great leaps forward announced by MA and so little actual concrete progress that I shall - as they say - watch this with interest but little expectation.

Who knows MA may surprise me .....

[Harald]

Wow - so how many planets are we at now? 2 - 3 - 4 are they all going to be impleneted at once?

[McCormick]

2 chinese (shopping) planets in 2008.
Acid type elemental enemys.
A movie about the new planet.

In the end we know nothing yet. Nothing.

So, can we have some more text, photos, plans or art now ? O_O

[Koliber]

Originally Posted by Bertha Bot

[size="4"]... with a real cash economy that is already positioned to challenge the dominance of market leader World of Warcraft...

Tee hee, this really mace me chuckle. Wow announces their 10millionth customer ... EU has what? 700K downloads?

But other than that the news looks like all the regular MA hype just to get on the front page. It'll be 5-6 years before anything solid gets implemented.

[Sunab Naverith]

Originally Posted by Koliber

Tee hee, this really mace me chuckle. Wow announces their 10millionth customer ... EU has what? 700K downloads?

But other than that the news looks like all the regular MA hype just to get on the front page. It'll be 5-6 years before anything solid gets implemented.

Ya no kidding, like wtf? EU has a decade or three to go at the current signup rate before they even get to where WoW is *now*.

BTW on a slightly related note, a friend of mine just received his gold card - it's numbered in the 50k amount. If we have at least that many active accounts out of 700k, that sounds decent...

[aridash]

is anyone else underwhelmed by the lack of any actual news or information in this?

[Oleg]

Originally Posted by Koliber

Tee hee, this really mace me chuckle. Wow announces their 10millionth customer ... EU has what? 700K downloads?

If you compare turnover, rather than customer numbers, EU will compare much more favourably to WoW. It still seems rather optimistic to say that they are challenging the market leader though.

[Oleg]

Originally Posted by aridash

is anyone else underwhelmed by the lack of any actual news or information in this?

Yes, and expected to be.

(Can you be underwhelmed and expect to be? Or does the fact that my expectations were met preclude the possibility of underwhelming? Hmm...)

[Sunab Naverith]

Originally Posted by Oleg

If you compare turnover, rather than customer numbers, EU will compare much more favourably to WoW. It still seems rather optimistic to say that they are challenging the market leader though.

Compare favorably? LoL.

EU's YEARLY turnover is WoW's MONTHLY turnover.

EU's only bonus is that they employ <50 people. WoW (Blizzard) has several hundred people just on the WoW section, including support personnel, etc.

[GoNi]

Originally Posted by Koliber

Tee hee, this really mace me chuckle. Wow announces their 10millionth customer ...

9.5mio Gold Farming Bots, and at least 6mio of this are already banned!

Originally Posted by Oleg

If you compare turnover, rather than customer numbers, EU will compare much more favourably to WoW. It still seems rather optimistic to say that they are challenging the market leader though.

Yeah turnover is another thing than active accounts.

As already said, count in how much of this many many accounts at WoW are locked due to botusing, and how much Accounts a day get created to contine with Goldfarming (botusing) after an account gets locked.

WoW really sucks!!!

Anyway Mindark and EU is still market leader in the RCE MMO business!!!
Is there any other successfull RCE MMO out of Beta?

Don´t say SL, thats not an MMO, thats a bullshit chat with nice additional features.

Originally Posted by Zib Black Onyx

who fucking cares.

I still can't get any decent loot.

good point

Originally Posted by Bertha Bot

Creative Kingdom, Inc. (CKI), the world's most celebrated thematic architectural design firm, has begun developing a state-of-the-art film/television studio and IT production complex in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This massive project, dubbed Cyber City -- underwritten by the Thai government and a consortium of entrepreneurs including CKI CEO Eduardo Robles and President Thanu Boonyawatana, as well as Robles LLC -- is being constructed and outfitted on a nine-kilometer stretch of the northern Thai city at a cost of 7 billion Thai baht ($250 million).

As I understand this, they just started to build the studio.
Damn big project, 9km area, and non buildings so far as I understand this.
It can take a while untill they start to develop anything there

Originally Posted by Bertha Bot

The maiden project for the new complex will be CKI's collaboration with the Swedish company Mindark

Sounds like they start developing first planet in 2010 or maybe later