The Eggs of Entropia are here! Auction for the first 2 of 5 eggs: Planet Arkadia & Planet Toulan

Arkadia Affiliate Egg: https://entropia.nft.io/asset/52297284

Toulan Affiliate Egg: https://entropia.nft.io/asset/55823177


Unfortunately they are using Gleam for the "Giveaway". Gleam is ruled by armies of bots, normal people have little to no chance to win. We've stopped using it for giveaways years ago.

 

No worries. There's bound to be some mysterious bidder to come to the rescue at the very last moment, right before also this scheme proves to be a dud.

 

Very interesting indeed. So friend A bids just above the current highest or reserve, friend B bids extraordinary high beyond any sane value, then cancels last seconds and friend A gets it for relatively cheap. Please tell me that the platform is not screaming for abuse that loud.

 

Why would they be more valuable? There's no pet yet, and who knows how long one has to wait for it, or what the specs of the pet are? And don't forget the affiliate access is by no means guaranteed either.

It's all just a big bet and hoping MA will follow through. Should I point out their track record of following through on delivering promised things?

 

The issue I can see is that there's hardly any incentive left for untapped big spenders to join. EU is not fun to play. It's not exciting either. It's a pure grindfest, and an expensive one at that. Uber gear probably is cheaper than ever, but that is a direct result of the markup having disappeared, and thus removing the ability to profit at a steady level.

I literally see zero reason why anyone with lots of disposable income at their fingertips would even consider playing. Old blood is leaving, and so is 98% of whatever new blood is brought in. In order to keep the pyramid scheme going, you need a constant influx of new people, and MA has failed to bring that for well over a decade. I'm frankly amazed the company is still around at all.

For the price to play EU for a few hours, you could literally buy dozens of other games that will offer far better entertainment value, and where you'd be treated with a lot more courtesy than in EU.

 

That's how I read it. Whether or not one gets approved is at MA's whim. They could actually deny everyone's request.


I have no clue what the official affiliate program actually yields or requires, but there's not been too many links given out. I happen to know someone who has been trying to get one and has consistently been ignored/brushed off by MA. They obviously feel that the ability to market their shitty niche product is a very exclusive opportunity only to be shared with the most elite of ass-kissers.

Judging from the video posted earlier, StevieB seems to think he runs a very effective Youtube channel that promotes EU, but even he does not have an affiliate link.

The wording of the Egg press releases sort of sounds like these affiliate links function more or less like a Planet Partner agreement, but without all the hassle that comes with being granted a planet partner status. There hasn't been one of those in about a decade, and judging from the active playerbase, the PP program wasn't exactly a major success either.

The fact they are auctioning off 1 egg per planet (except ROCKtropia apparently) makes it sound as if the new affiliate link will be tied to a specific planet partner. The original concept of Planet Partners was that the PPs generated new content (that MA could mess with at their leisure, while eventually getting the intellectual property to ideas and assets constructed by the PP), and the PP would have to do their own advertising and that would be how they'd get money (50% of the revenue generated by a player acquired by said PP, if my memory serves me well).

What happened instead was that MA favored the planet they initially sold to a third party, who quickly realized they were duped, and which is/was/has been run by the son of the founder of MindArk. This, to nobody's surprise, ended up in said son being able to cherry pick from ideas suggested by PPs, claiming them as his own (Kim isn't exactly a genius).


10 years later, numerous failed ventures further, the PP program is dead (several planets were taken over by third parties (BIG Industries, who you will see again in this post), failing to even keep the lights in the original studios on), we saw a failed mobile game, numerous failed sales attempts to generate press releases to rival the good old days, a failed attempt at a VR conferencing tool, a failed attempt at launching a ICO (assisted by Shaun Klein from BIG Industries), and I'm sure I forgot a whole bunch of other failed ventures.

MindArk is desperate to keep the lights on, and this entire scheme (backed by Shaun Klein from BIG Industries) is exactly following the MindArk playbook. They are attempting to capitalize on the blockchain (far too late, and it adds zero value), NFTs (which have already been proven to be a bloody scam), they are trying to capitalize on this at the very moment the entire fad died down, and they use very dubious methods and carefully crafted lingo in order to try and appeal to an audience with more money than common sense.


And still there are people defending these crooks.

 

In case you are thinking about participating in the giveaways of the "highly exclusive and limited" location NFTs:

Source: http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/Entropia_Universe_NFT_affiliate_eggs

 

August 2020? Has it been going on for that long? Or is that a typo?

 

Typo... it's 2022 of course