It does sound like a Casino, and you hear stories of 17 year olds playing online poker all day and making a LOT more then 35k in three years. Christ, how is this even news? If I worked at McDonalds for 3 years i'd make a lot more then this. Will you put my name up on the site if I give 1/3 of it to my sister for tuition?

while this sounds like a nice gesture im not entirly sure its sincier... its seems more like publicity to me im a vetern player of EU and can tell u that CKcoatkillers are closly conected somehow with the company that makes EU, mindark... there is definitly favortism going with this society not only are there items in game named after its players but they also major holds on  taxed land areas in game as well as completly taking over the first pvp zone in game killing players that entered... 

I tried this game a while back but never made a purchase because the company was completly unresponsive and many people were waiting upwards of 6 months to get paid. I have no idea how long it takes now  It seemed so bad that the advice that was usally given was to try and resell  credits on ebay if one could catch a newbie or something. I wrote them several times concerning payouts but they never replied. I remember reading something like this company would even go so far as to close your account and take all your stuff if you were found to be talking bad about them on any forums, again I asked about this but received no reply. I do not think I ever found one post or reply from this company on any fan forum regarding any issue anyone ever asked. They are very secretive about everything, especially the money, like how long one must wait to get paid after making a withdrawl, what percent of money collected goes back into the game etc. Heck at least online casinos tell you the payout percent is. It didn't even seem like anyone knew the names of the owners or anything. Sure it's Minkark but who ownes mindark? A group of college buddies? I never found out and it ddn't seem like anyone knew.

 More recently there have been lots of unhappy players because they changed the loot structure to payoff established players more thus leaving everyone else to pay the bill. The truth about making money in this game is that very very few do and those players may very well be connected, at least that's what some think, I have know idea myself. I liken this game to a rogue online casino with no regulation and no avenue to submit legal complaints even if $10's of thousand of dollars are involved. This company has the "game" set up legaly as a gambling entity,or something like that. so you really don't have much recourse, no matter what happens. Forum information is scarce, at least it used to be and one must keep in mind that fan sites of this game and many people involved with this game will try to protect it tooth and nail because some of these people have paid-in 10's of thousands of dollars and hope to someday get it back. Most people who play seem to agree that it takes thousands upon thousands of dollars to get anywhere in this game and they could pull the plug tomorrow if they wanted and that would be that.

  I like the concept of this game but I think they take to much of the money out of the game. There is no monthly fee but I'd MUCH rather pay $25 a month and know that every dollar put into the game beyond that amount stays in the game and is in a bank somehwere with near instant withdrawl capabilities. As it stands now, players easily have millions of dollars worth of credits all told but how much does this company have on hand to pay? They won't tell you and that's a problem in my view.

jagwarr, dude, not many things are correct in your message...

Mindark isn't a gambling outfit and never has been (Sweden has pretty strict laws surrounding that, as is a State monopoly). Claiming Entropia to be a casino is like claimning RL being a casino.

Mindark is a public company, meaning any finacial/business info you need is publicly available on their website, in English. Dude, it's not that hard to check it out, now is it?

Withdrawals are made within SECONDS using the ATM card they have hooked into Entropia. It is really cool that you can withdraw the virtual money into real money in an instant.

If they wanted to pull the plug they would have done so years ago. Now they are just being successful, which probably piss people off somehow. It is a great concept and they are the only ones exploring the real money/MMO mix, which I find is way cool.

Pyramid scheme.

Interesting, I though I could make some money from this game but it turns out you need to do it full time, might as well get a job! :)

Anyway, that is what I thought

Gazzaden

 Lagavulin

Then I apologize for such outdated comments. The atm card that you mention sounds great. As I said I really do like the idea behind the game and hope the idea and game grows further.

right,what a joke..
I dont even bother to comment other than,PE,EU whatever is nothing but a RIGGED poor payout casino..
someone got "lucky"?
sure,good pr...
besides,hes such an old player hes had the chance to loot and sell stuff that doesnt drop anymore so he hardly
had to build any business or even get "lucky" hahahaha
a bullshit hype again as usual,nothing more