Entropia Universe Interview
Sep 09, 2008
MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood recently caught up with Marco Behrmann from Mindark's Entropia Universe to get an update of teh game and an overview on what it's all about.

Project Entropia will be the next generation of interactive entertainment. In Project Entropia you will able to enter a whole world with amazing three-dimensional environments using a computer and the internet. It will be a massive virtual world where millions of users can interact with each other at the same time. Project Entropia will have a real economy system that allows you as a user to exchange real life money into PED (Project Entropia Dollars) and then back into a real currency again. Project Entropia will be free of charge with no monthly costs, which means that aside from the fees for your own local access to the internet while you are connected, the client software will be available with no payment to MindArk. All you need to do is get hold of the software that will be distributed in various ways, for example through the internet or on free CD's in computer magazines.
When you decide to enter the world of Project Entropia as a citizen you will be able to create your very own visual three-dimensional persona. This is easy because you will be using a character generation system that defines the freedom we intend to offer you. Project Entropia gives you the possibility to experience a life inside a vast virtual reality as it suits you. It will present you with social interaction with people all over the world as well as real online services inside an incredible virtual environment. Project Entropia is also meant to help you to fulfill your dreams and fantasies with adventures inside an expanding science-fiction universe. For all of you who are familiar with the term "massive multiplayer online role-playing games" or MMORPG, Project Entropia will be that and much more. If you don't know what a MMORPG means just read on!
As a MMORPG the world of Project Entropia is set to take you on an epic journey into the future, to a place far away from Earth, beyond the borders and frontiers of known space. The central point in the human universe is now focused on one single colony on a distant planet named Calypso. The world on Calypso will be under constant development and will initially include three vast continents with large expanding cities where you begin your life. The cities will offer you an immense virtual playground for social interaction with other players in a thriving social community. It will contain various forms of in-game institutions, real online services and a variety of virtual entertainment.
Together with all other online users you will have the possibility to take an active role in the creation of a whole new civilization, to explore entire continents in an evolving world and claim land where you can establish new communities. Should you choose to leave the peaceful and secure cities you may be forced to struggle against the wild untamed nature, against hostile mutants and invading robots. You must learn to use all available resources and a growing multitude of skills, wit, guts, teamwork and equipment to reclaim a lost paradise. Take on quests and pull the strings of the past to discover more of the story behind Project Entropia as the future unfolds before you in a growing web of intrigues that will take on epic proportions. Whatever you may find it's only the beginning, and whatever you do may alter the future of an entire world!
Project Entropia is a registered trademark of MindArk AB. Mindark is the company responsible for the development of the Project Entropia Universe. See the Trademark & patents page and/or the Legal & Policies page at www.mindark.com
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