My Planet Calypso MMO review (Entropia Universe)

[Qaedain]

Microtransactions. -5/10.

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by Qaedain [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Microtransactions. -5/10.

I actually hate microtransactions myself. But the key difference here, is that you can make money off the game. So for example, i stopped playing Dungeons and dragons online after a week because although the game is ok, i felt dirty encouraging this micro-transaction crap.

But the difference with this game is that its a real economy. You get all the content for free, and you can put some money in, but you can also withdraw money from the game.

Ill never play a game which encourages milking of their players with micro-transactions. I hate this whole trend of making downloadable content for games like dragon age.

Im tired and its late, im not explaining myself clearly but theres a key difference between this kind of business model and micro-transactions in a game where you just put money in and can get nothing back. Ill get back on it later.

[Reynard_CT]

Entropia is really a terrible "game" though MA has always avoided using that term to describe its brainchild. The returns are abysmal for most players unless you are one of the lucky few who started during its inception where you could gain skills easier and loot items which are still valuable, unlike the majority of the drops today. There are exceptions of course, where a new player might get a lucky find, but since those are the exceptions they are few and far between.

EU does not have an official forums, but on the major community forum there are several stories and examples of terrible, sometimes non-existent customer service, mismanagement, horribly flawed programming, and content releases pushed back for months or even for several years in the case of their "atm card" which vanished soon after its release.

While there are new "quests" (kill x amount of creatures mostly) they do not quite fit into any grand scheme aside from generation of revenue. The storyline is not much of a line at all, given its meandering and illogical nature, and even the writing is laughable most times. It might make more sense in Swedish since the game and its developers are based in that country, but it should not be difficult to hire a human translator from time to time so they do not have to rely on the online translation sites as seems to be the case.

Even the management seems to be clueless most times. A recent revelation which came to light when they released their quarterly reports a year late was that management had bought a castle in Germany... they purchased and renovated an entire castle, even painting it yellow. Not many people are happy about this, though some optimists hope the purchase will yield resale value so that some of the profit might make its way down the pipe to the players in the form of loot.

On a good note, it seems that new developers with insight and vision are going to release their own "planets" within the Entropia Universe. These new planets are anxiously awaited, though some players are already disillusioned given the unfortunate release of the "Rocktropia" planet which has a dubious reputation.

While EU had the potential to draw hundreds of thousands of players with its innovative RMT system, greed and mismanagement have ensured that the playerbase will not exceed its few thousand addicted gamblers, optimists, and those with too much invested/lost to quit.

[Humerox]

I tried it for a bit.

Wasn't bad, overall. If you don't want to invest, you'll find out what serious grinding really is, lol.

Sweat, anyone?