PR: World Record For Most Expensive Virtual Object Is Smashed

[psychnosiz]

Originally Posted by T3h_plonker

also as some have stated not every time the game installs right so you have to re-download it.

You install the game and it works.

The game is known to feature errors, especially after updates so create a second folder and copy the working game client in there. Does your initial installation crash? copy the copy back into the original folders and only re-download the updates.

Doesn't seem to be rocket science imo

[True Juan]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

I think they should make Entropia available in gamestores, for 20 USD or something, with a pre-paid depo card included

Now that IS a GREAT IDEA.

[T3h_plonker]

Originally Posted by psychnosiz

You install the game and it works.

The game is known to feature errors, especially after updates so create a second folder and copy the working game client in there. Does your initial installation crash? copy the copy back into the original folders and only re-download the updates.

Doesn't seem to be rocket science imo

most people that are noobs and havent played the game yet will just give up

[valentin]

Please dont tell os old news tell os some new news.

[Menace]

Planet Calypso is one of the few safe investments in this economy.

first of all.... a safe investment doesn't provide large amounts of profit. secondly, I call bullshit on Calypso being a safe investment. There hasn't been a worse time to invest in ANYTHING virtual around here. However.... that being said.... Buzz.... you'll either make huge or go down like the titanic. High risk investments are like that. I'm thinking, that if all goes well and you get lucky, you can pull enough PEDs over the next year or so to cover your loan payment then when the world's economy recovers.... and IF Calypso's economy recovers.. you can sell for 500k U.S. and make yourself a cool profit. I'm hoping that will be the case for ya.... however.... I'm noticing alot more proteron globals than alien globals.... nice of MA to sell you a space station with unique DNA then go and release 4 new and unique DNA (to themselves) at the same time.

[Scorpion]

Cue the next massive wave of colonists to EU.

[Tosi]

Originally Posted by Menace

first of all.... a safe investment doesn't provide large amounts of profit. secondly, I call bullshit on Calypso being a safe investment. There hasn't been a worse time to invest in ANYTHING virtual around here. However.... that being said.... Buzz.... you'll either make huge or go down like the titanic. High risk investments are like that. I'm thinking, that if all goes well and you get lucky, you can pull enough PEDs over the next year or so to cover your loan payment then when the world's economy recovers.... and IF Calypso's economy recovers.. you can sell for 500k U.S. and make yourself a cool profit. I'm hoping that will be the case for ya.... however.... I'm noticing alot more proteron globals than alien globals.... nice of MA to sell you a space station with unique DNA then go and release 4 new and unique DNA (to themselves) at the same time.

Of course they released new mobs to make sure there won't be too much drain in the ingame economy.
Buzz should have become US spokesperson for MA prior to purchase to guarantee getting his investment back, now I'm afraid it won't happen in next ten years or so.

[Darkewulfe]

At the moment Nightwolf is choosing to invest in real estate, safer methinks

[N. Radioactive]

Originally Posted by Bertha Bot

Planet Calypso is one of the few safe investments in this economy.

I wonder if he actually believes the stuff he says or if MA pays him?

[SpikeBlack]

Originally Posted by T3h_plonker

i agree with the people saying you should sell it in shops and bundel it with a ped voucher.

in the UK we dont have this but i do know in places like belgium ISPs cap the ammoun you can download per month (like 30gb/Mo) so a 5Gb download for the game is already alot and people from there might not download it.

also as some have stated not every time the game installs right so you have to re-download it. i dont think people would want to waist 1/3rd of their monthly allowence in less than a day.

also alot of people cant use internets to find games and go to the shop insted.

and a manual is imperative !

edit : i used my 3000th post for this

I can see a couple of issues. A lot of shops will have the boxes on the shelves for quite a while and I can't see MA / FPC wanting to update the discs everytime they release a patch. You buy the game in store, install it, run it for the first time and it starts to download a 4gb patch

Theres no generic - one patch fits all, if your updating everytime a patch is released you download the first patch and install, download the second and install, download the third and install. It's at this point that someone gets impatient and clicks the cancel button as the patcher window goes blank (as it usually does for me) and looks like it stopped responding. Now they've got to reinstall from scratch and download all the patches again .

Secondly, give a noob 200ped and they'll waste it. Apart from the fact the MA may never receive $20 for the purchase to fund the 200ped card included as they've had to pay production and distribution costs. Guess who's going to be picking up the tab.

A far better option would be to give an option on the MA / FPC website to purchase an a disc directly from them with as close to live full installer and then reimburse the buyers costs ingame including delivery. Easiest method would be to get preprinted dvd's and then burn them as required. This way they're not stuck with thousands of out of date discs.