Lord British about to hand out advices to Neverdie...

Aaaaand baaaam ! It will neverend, uh, neverdie.
Another PR strike in the making :


While Lord British (Richard Garriot) will hand out advices to team neverdie, the headline is a lot stronger of course:

Neverdie and Lord British partner to develop VR infrastructure

or for the Crypto fans :

Ultima's Famed Lord British Joins Forces with Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs to Unite Millions of Gamers in Ethereum-Based Gaming with NDC and TPT Tokens

Woot woot x'D

https://www.gamereactor.eu/news/574...British+partner+to+develop+VR+infrastructure/

https://www.benzinga.com/pressrelea...-joins-forces-with-jon-neverdie-jacobs-to-uni

Just in case it will dissapear from the net one day :


And a short comment on this one by myself:

Lord British has not failed as often as Neverdie (yet), but he defenitely knows how to mess things up (or how to do PR right). Im sure, together these two ultra-humans will be able to prepare one/another epic (VR) fail, not related to Entropia and/or MindArk at all (except it will generate in millions of US dollars) Allready enjoying how "everybody" cheers and will fall for it once again, just to SEE...this...vanishing...over the next months, people slowly forgetting about it, ready to accept NDs next "big idea".


"Lord British himself will be helping advise specifically on the structure of VR government"
Jesus Christ...lets rawk, Im ready to enjoy the PR show ! :'D

I dont want to sound all negative allready, but...Jesus Christ...this got to end one day, doesnt it ? x'D

 

I fully understand what you mean, but if your hopes havent been destroyed by ND yet, sure, keep getting entertained by his hypes.
To me, the entertainment value of his news went down to zero, because he never ever really delivered. (also because of "thanks to Mindark")

This (venture) will get silenced asap. I promise.
Or it will at least stay (in the news) as long as ppl throw Ehterum at ND, realizing there will be neither any "THE BIG TELEPORTER" nor milions of so called jobs. Lord British wants to pay people for their content ingame (2nd Life already working like that)...well, you better apply for a job at Electronic Arts if you have such nice abilities, creating ingame content. It cant be worse. ;)

ND created tons of broken promises, lies and hypes. Just like as MindArk. Is that really the stuff ppl need to fight boredom ?
THAT is boring to me. So repetitive. Did you know other game companies (sometimes) actually deliver what they promised ? ;)

Apart from the word "etherum", this is Neverdies News once again.
A steady dreamer who knows to talk. Hes charismatic for sure, but hes a dreamer, living in a nightmare.
Jumping this train, jumping that idea, grabbing that hype...promising a new era...again and again...just to leave it behind to jump the next thing. What about finishing something 1st ? Well, he learned well from his mentor Mindark it seems. ;p

But hey, maybe Im wrong this time and ND will create a gigantic teleporter + a new VR infrastructure, based on Etherum, while creating millions of jobs... ;)

Either that or the bubble will pop sooner or later, as humanity will never be really ready for it.
Though, this turned into its very own special "stock market"...there will always be ppl using it, just because they can.

Id also say mankind isnt (will never be) ready for this as a mass product, beeing used on a daily basis.

Only if the banks would "enforce" it, while crypto would be already regulated and fully controlled by them (which isnt the original idea aynway), it might end up as the new "payment method". Still, its too much specualtion and fluctuation in this, to be "just a payment option" for the average joe.

It is a religion just as much the "stock market" we already have. You wont be able to convince brokers that it is wrong what they are doing...you will fail. Just like as you would fail telling a religious person that it is wrong what he is believing. No chance. Same for the crypto market, if you cant convince them that it is wrong...dont try it. :)

Still, most are fully aware, that money is just fantasy...and they love fantasy...

 

You always loose the time reading all these broken promises, wasting even more time commenting on it, to make others aware of it. ;)

 

Ah you mean ppl like Brock Pierce ? x'D

 

Hehe, I for example felt deeply in love with "Tabula Rasa"...it was fucking awesome !!!!11²²³³³ :'DDDDD

Tabula Rasa died after 1 year...I would still be playing it, but the community got threatened and the fan-project got shut down.

Ultima X anyone ? Online for 1 year.

Ultima 9 anyone ? A disaster.

Since 2013 "Shroud of the Avatar" tries to arrive...still with a huge warning message on the steam site.

Well, what I want to say is, Garriot might have some passion left, but many of todays games lack of small, lovely details and immersive feelings. Its as simple as that and you cant always blame EA or NCSoft for "the bad games", can you ? ;p

Sure, the background on Tabula Rasa seems a bit different and court brought 24 Mio. $ to Garriots pockets, but again, you cant always blame EA or NCSoft if a game fails, can you ? ;p

It is true, the original "owner" of Ryzom (Nevrax) went officially bankrupt. Then Gameforge bought Ryzom/Nevrax and later "couldnt afford" money to keep Ryzom up and running, while they had other excellent titles up and running.
But decisions got made. Gameforge is a huge and strong brand in todays world.

Garriot is for sure "interesting" but...as I said, many games lack of inspiration and you can feel it was a rush job to make some quick dollars. There are good games out there but...here is an article about Garriot :

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/1/30/14406074/richard-garriott-book-interview

Garriot, as advisor, together with Neverdie...it might work out to scam even more moeny out of the players pockets, with huge promises, because players would still put their trust in these..promises...promises, that often got kicked with feet.
Promises that never arrived or that did not meet the players expectations (at all).
But as long as words are able to bring in the dollars...they keep talking, without delivering. HelllooOoOoooOo ?!

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Entropia is up and running since 1999 and they already knew how to do PR stunts back in the days, after they got raided for missing software licenses:

https://www.wired.com/2002/06/pirate-cops-raid-ms-gaming-foe/

Just 2 examples :

"Project Entropia site immediately became the world's largest site on the Internet, even beating Yahoo, MSN, etc.," the game developer said."

"We will sue Microsoft and use the millions of dollars we get as treasures for players to find."

And one last time...I still think games lack of details and love these days. Money needs to be made...not the virtual world.
Entropia had to suffer a lot, regarding an immersive world and lovely details, but events and (rich) addicts...sorry, investors...keep this project up and running.

MA never went bankrupt and everytime it showed up in the "news", people never heard of Entropia before.
This is a ongoing process since 1999, as MA never ever did any kind of (mass)advertising.

MA became very very silent with their last "roadmap" and if the MindBank wont arrive asap, chances for a another big "Treasure Island Sale" or similar news...are non existant.

With his current crypto blah, ND is far from Entropia by now...and only, I repeat, ONLY if ND will be able to make millions of dollars, MindArk will be back and make ND the "king of pop-(en)tropia" (again). This is a mess, seriously...what would the presidnet of Virtual Reality say ?

But enough of mixing stuff in...I say, this Garriot&ND thing will turn out as just another bullshit hype announcement without delivery.
Maybe also because people became more aware of his actions.

And if there will be results, it will be so far away from Entropia, that you will never hear of it again, except you are a high member in the so called "Political Group" of Rocktropia forum... just joking

But ya, hope dies last...and once again the world has never heard of Entropia before...repeat... ;D