Entropia featured on TV - Page 5

Boss · 05-04-2006, 11:33

There is a article on www.idg.se about this that you can take out your peds into RL money so it can't be to far away. Problem is that we always deposit and never have some cash to take out in this service.

http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/20060...27_PFA.dbp.asp

MarlaSinger · 05-04-2006, 14:44

ta ta daaa - translation!

guy in the beginning: it's already possible today to live your whole life on the internet, you don't even need to disconnect to earn your first million. people in this town, gothenburg, makes it possible.

bald guy: it's not a game, it's a virtual universe.

guy with earring: the thing we strive for is to build a better world then the existing one.

reporter: so called massive multiplayergames is nothing new. even in the 80's there was "mud", textbased adventures for a great number of players. today, the game "world of warcraft" is the biggest one, with six million players. Project Entropia is different from all other games in one imporant way.

bald guy: it's a fixed exchange rate, 10 PED, project entropia dollar, for 1 american dollar.

reporter: project entropia has it's own economic system. all the money in the paralell universe is real. instead of making money on selling the game, they make money on the fact that the users weapons, clothes and other things decay, but they users themselves can also make money.

bald guy: she is selling ticets, spacetravel ticets to club neverdie. I'm asking what the cost will be. either she ownes a spaceship of her own or she knows someone who does, so she is selling ticets for that person.
club neverdie is an asteroid that was sold to an american guy for 1.000.000 american dollar.

reporter: Jon Jacobs who bought the asteroid is hoping to make money on it's natural resources and on a nightclub. his rolemodel is the first big entrepreneur in the paralell world. David from australia bought an island for 26.000 dollar.

bald guy: David got his money back within a year after the purchase.

reporter: what does he make his money on?

bald guy: he makes money from other players that play on his island. he can impose taxes in different ways.

reporter: when we are visiting project entropia in gothenburg, they are installing armourglass and steelwalls in the entrance. we are not aloud to film there because of the safety, the company is now considered a bank. players can withdraw money from the universe from an ordinary ATM.

guy with earring: we get one question quite often, and it is about that guy who bought the asteriod, "why don't you make 10 asteroids then?" we wouldn't do that because then we would be destroying the whole economy and that would hurt us too. we have to be very careful with what we do here, to not abuse our colonists trust.

reporter: the next step in the universe is a culture-city, drawn by Ernst Billgren. in the city you can listen to lectures about art, and you are going to be able to buy virtual art to have in your virtual house but the art is also sent home to you, in the real world. in the end it's all gonna be possible to do in the virtual world. and surfing the internet becomes unnecessary.

bald guy: if you are logged in to this world... why log out from this world? why surf an ordinary boring browser?

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okay, I suck at translating stuff but I hope someone will understand..
puh, that took some time..

Jal · 05-04-2006, 16:33

Thank you MarlaSinger for the translation. A great job. How would we know if it wasn't anyway

If anybody has been to the BBC link at the bottom of the original article page, do you know what the thrid picture down is of? The one that looks like an arena, taken from an angle above. Is it actually EU? I'd like to go there

Regards,

Jal

KASSAD · 05-04-2006, 16:42

nice to see EU on TV

& ty for the translation marla

Bloodlustian · 05-04-2006, 22:30

Nice, Its good to se a translation aswell...

If all goes well perhaps a English/US program will want a Report

Dash Smashing · 05-04-2006, 22:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarlaSinger

reporter: when we are visiting project entropia in gothenburg, they are installing armourglass and steelwalls in the entrance. we are not aloud to film there because of the safety, the company is now considered a bank. players can withdraw money from the universe from an ordinary ATM.

Who's fault is this?

Too many threats to MAHQ? ;D

TommyDaGreat · 05-06-2006, 12:04

I could do a in-movie translation of it if someone rips it for me since I have not tools for that.

If someone can do that, please PM me so you can send the file.

And also, I have no storage space to upload it anywhere, so someone has to support me with that too =P

AlphaGeek · 05-06-2006, 13:12

Marla, thanks for the translation! (Yummy avatar pic, by the way... rrrrrrrrraoooww!)

One bit in that I find a bit amusing...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Some MA Guy with an Earring

we have to be very careful with what we do here, to not abuse our colonists trust.

Moving Shop Ships which decreased property value for some apartment owners, The whole "that's kimmi chair in your apartment" fiasco, and other equally annoying occurances...

Did the guy even keep a straight face when he said that? I doubt I could.

AG