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From: "Marc Fielding" <fielding@computer.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:11:22 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Justice Ocker]
> Banks also fall under different international regulations than a
> game. They are treading a dangerous turf there and opening up a
> whole new can of worms. Also they aren't offering poker,
> blackjack, or any other traditional casino games so they might
> have a hard time attracting the gambling crowd. In the end I
> agree with you, I think it will be a spectacular failure along the
> same lines of the free ISP model. It is an interesting concept
> though, interacting with the Internet through a FPS perspective.
> I would think it would be a bandwidth hog unless they tightly
> control patches to distribute new content. Unfortunately with
> that method it wouldn't very dynamic.
Perhaps Entropia will serve the same purpose that most innovative,
over-reaching, and unfocused projects do: as a testbed for ideas
that will later be extracted piecemeal by others, adapted, and
properly implemented.
-Marc
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