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Game that has real money dont remember name
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Hi,
This is my first post here so im sorry for anything stupid i do....
Anyways im looking for a game uve forgot its name. 
its a game where the game money can be changed for real life money. Oh yeah and its not Second life.
Any help would be great 
Thanks.
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No longer visiting MMORPG.com.
Thats it!
Thanks dude.
errrrm also anyone played this? any good?
I played it for a while, long time ago. It was ok. Don't know how it's changed since then.
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In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on August 13, 2008.
i am SO making a career out of this game!
I wrote a review about a year and a half ago about my experience with Project Entropia, now called "Entropia Universe". Reading about my experience might give you a little insight about this money hungry mmo...
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My Review of Project Entropia (Entropia Universe) written November of 2004:
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This game is FREE to download! But I feel that PE is almost like a slot machine myself. That doesn't mean that it is. I feel like that because of the way their system works. They could probably legally get away with it because they are selling you "virtual goods and services" for your money. I put in about $120 into the game last year myself and went though the money in no time (less then a month) and wound up with a bunch of crap in the game that was essentially worthless. About 35 different types of minerals I had mined, some crap armor and a decent gun. But the better the gun is, the more rounds of ammo it uses each shot. And with little skill, you'll blast away at mobs many times to put them down. I decided to quit playing the game when I had to invest more real money to continue playing. I thought it was fun yes. I liked the mining and crafting too. But mining costs money too as it requires using "bombs" to try and find resourse deposits under the ground. And it is completely hit and miss almost random. I hit a few large deposits of a resource and kept going back to the same exact spot at different times over many days and would hit nothing. I remember figuring that each bomb in the game was the equivelent of 10 cents in US money. And it is very possible to blast away 50 bombs and not find many resources at all running around with your mineral detectors. Almost everything in the game that is decent has to be crafted by a player which requires those resources. The guns ammo costs the equivalent of about a penny per round I think, with some guns using as many as 20 rounds per shot. And some monsters could easily take 30 to 50 shots at them to finally take them down.
The game of Project Entropia is a great game I think actually. I love its insanely huge skill system that takes forever to max out. I love how the fighting actually requires skill and lets you target each shot while you try and run backwards from the monster running at you. Much better then the auto-attack stuff. I love how it takes soooooo long to skill up and that there are literally hundreds of skills. The armor, guns and weapons are very cool. The monsters are challenging to fight. The world is huge and a pleasure to explore even without dungeons. Crafting is actually a lot of fun in the game I think, and I love the way it works, even compared to games like Dark Age of Camelot. Crafting in PE is much more of a rewarding and fun process. So for me, I wasn't trying to make money, I just thought the game was hella fun. But when I went through $120 in less then a month playing it, and pretty much came to a point where I needed to again invest more to buy more stuff, I quit playing. The game can be played with no money at all, and there is no monthly fee, but doing so is pretty much pointless. They have designed a game that makes all the fun and cool stuff cost investment. And a huge investment it costs. Mindark is brilliant and I know that they have made a fortune on this game. If only they could somehow cut the costs down so more fun could be had with less cost, they might be able to keep a much larger player base long enough to really make it a rewarding game.
However, I still call Project Entropia the same as a "mmo slot machine" simply because it sucks in way, way, way too much money and leaves players quitting the game broke and moving on to another mmo. I knew several players in the game who invested as much as $1,500 to $3,000 in just a couple or 3 months, and even after that investment and tons of time playing, their avatars best skills were maybe 3% of their potential. I quickly came to my own conclusion that it would likely cost over $10,000 to skill a character to a "high level" player in just a few of the many skills. This may be wrong, but I certainly know that it costs way, way, way too much for me to play it. When I invested $120 in skilling and playing and was still like the biggest newb ever compared to the skill potential of the game, I knew I was in way over my head. - Zaxx
-Navsterz
Nooooooooooooo! Uninstall it. It is NOT worth updating your PC or getting a new PC.
And trust me... YOU WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER make any money playing Entropia. That is a money maker for the Entropia company, that's it. You stand a MUCH better chance making money at the lotto then you do playing Entropia.. I guarantee you that.
Let's put it this way. I invested well over $100 in my Entropia character. Skilled him at hunting myself with guns. Hunted a lot and it was fun! But even after all those hours and the investment which lasted me two weeks tops... I would go out and hunt.
Even with my most skillful kills of mobs... I'd likely spend 100 or more rounds taking one down. Each round for guns costs you a penny in real life money. So say even 50 cents to a dollar taking down a challenging mob. I'd get loot off of that monster worth maybe 1 to 3 cents if I was lucky. And I hunted many types of mobs. Also that doesn't include repair costs for my armor I wore and gun. Everything you use breaks down QUICKLY and has to be repaired (costing more in game money) or it becomes useless.
Bottom line: Entropia is not a money making game. It's a very fun game, but you pay dearly for that fun. You pay way too much actually.
Anyone tells you differently or that they made money playing Entropia and I will say they are full of steaming hot B.S.
- Zaxx
well there goes my summer plans....
any other game anyone can recomend me to play?