The new Camera System of Entropia Universe, explained by the developers.

Speaking of new improved cameras, that also allow for innovative ways of organising meetings (no VR reuqired), how about Hello2?

The best about it? It's unhindered by the Swedish standard of quality we've all gotten accustomed to, courtesy of MindArk. I sometimes wonder if Sweden knows what a gigantic favour MindArk is doing the country by relentlessly showing exactly how much a company can care about pretty much anything ranging from support to quality control, from customer care, to upholding the highest possible standards of integrity in any business dealings they do.

WHY HASN'T MINDARK BEEN NOMINATED FOR A NOBEL PRIZE YET?

 

I don't quite agree with that. Ikea is pretty great. Volvos are pretty great cars. H&M has pretty nice clothes. Ericsson makes pretty good stuff. Electrolux makes good appliances. Tele2 is also Swedish, I think.

As for Video games, The Battlefield series is from Sweden. So is Minecraft. As are a tons of others. I haven't played most of them, but I imagine most of them are more fun to play than EU.

 

There's tons of games using that principle, though. I play Forge of Empires (Made in Germany), where the same applies. You can play, but diamonds will help speed up the game. They offer various packages, all the way up to 200 USD/euros. Those are not needed to play, but will help speed things up, and you can earn diamonds through regular gameplay as well. I've dropped cash into diamonds a few times, and can see that whenever big events with useful prizes are happening, some of the top tier players drop in hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.

The difference between those kind of games and EU for me is that I can still play these games for free, even though I'm approaching the end-game. The game slowed down considerably, to where my main payout comes once a day. Yet, I haven't bought any diamonds, and am doing quite well. I'm not losing my socks off, nor does 1 day of entertainment cost me 50 USD.

 

lol. They removed the health-bar drag option. Something I'm willing to bet is being used by 50% of the players. MA concluded it was buggy, caused issues, and is no longer needed.

I use it all the time. Healers use it all the time. Team players use it all the time. But MA is too lazy to fix whatever issues there are, and so fuck all those players.

Same with automatically enabling auto-use. I suspect there will be an increase in missed shots once a mob has died. Or an increase in dropped mines/probes when it's not intended.

 

It's product management terminology, he is not the owner in a proprietary sence, he's "just" the one calling the shots for all things game development for EU. Listing "lead producer" as the job he does suggest his role is even broader.

Lol, that a very interesting observation.