PROJECT ENTROPIA ANNOUNCES ONLINE AUCTION OF VIRTUAL TREASURE ISLAND
24 August 2004
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For Immediate Release
August 23, 2004
PROJECT ENTROPIA ANNOUNCES ONLINE AUCTION OF VIRTUAL TREASURE ISLAND
Lushly Rendered Virtual Real Estate Includes Revenue Potential From Gamers “Playing on Your Land”
(Los Angeles, CA) – Project Entropia, one of the fastest growing virtual world’s utilizing a real cash economy, today announces the first-ever auction for virtual real estate. Project Entropia is offering members a chance to participate in a bidding war to claim an extensively rendered virtual treasure island, which includes the potentially profitable “mining and hunting” rights.
The island is a large piece of land, on the fictional planet of Calypso, off a newly discovered continent surrounded by deep-creature infested waters. The island boasts beautiful beaches ripe for developing beachfront property and an old volcano with rumors of fierce beings within. The outback is overrun with mutants, and there is an area with a high concentration of robotic miners guarded by heavily armed assault robots.
The most extraordinary feature is a gigantic abandoned castle overlooking the island. It is suspected that the island is the infamous "Site A," where the original colonist arrival took place, resulting in discoveries of old equipment, a broken down teleporter, and space ship docks for the lucky bidder. Site A, was according to Imperial records, abandoned after the continent was deemed too wild and dangerous for the first phase of planetary colonization.
The winning bidder of the island will obtain all taxation rights on hunting and mining on the island. “This piece of land is the first of its kind, and will create a definite buzz in the massive multiplayer gaming community,” raves Jon Jacobs, US spokesperson for Project Entropia. “Not only will the owner be able to obtain profits from personal use and the mining and hunting of others, but this island promises additional revenue potential through the selling of land lots and market places.”
Project Entropia is part of the next generation of gaming known as MMORPG (massive multi-player online role playing gaming) which seem to resemble more of a virtual world and society rather than a typical online video game. This new wave of interactive entertainment allows players to interact in a world of three-dimensional virtual environments.
However unlike many other MMORP’s, Project Entropia actively supports sales of virtual products with actual cash value within its real economy system. The economy offers the user a secure and safe way to make purchases, sales and exchange real life currency into PED (Project Entropia Dollars) and back again into real money. PED allows members to invest in personal development and growth through the acquisition of goods, buildings, and land in the Entropia universe.
The heart of Project Entropia lies in a distant planet named Calypso, which includes three continents with large expanding cities that offer a variety of entertainment and social interaction for the citizens. Members of Entropia can create their own persona (avatar), via a character generation system, allowing them to choose a suitable life and virtual existence. Characters enter the evolving world full of unexplored and uncultivated lands where they can join a community or even create a civilization of their own. Project Entropia offers a new way for individuals to pursue dreams and fantasies through an adventurous virtual experience.
About Project Entropia
Project Entropia is a registered trademark of MindArk PE AB. MindArk PE AB supports and monitors the services and maintenance of the Project Entropia site. MindArk PE AB began in April of 2003 in Sweden, and has expanded to have partners throughout the world. Project Entropia was launched in 2003 and has reached over 150,000 registered accounts. MindArk offers the Project Entropia software to users free of charge with no monthly costs or associated subscription fees. For more information or to download the free Project Entropia software please visit www.projectentropia.com.
Contact:
Jackie Lacambra
Terpin Communications
(310) 821-6100 x108
jackie@terpin.com
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