There is so much real estate on Calypso that is owned by avatars who left the game years ago and might not even be alive IRL anymore. When I check Entropia Life sometimes I see they were last active in 2012 or 2013. There are a few locations I would love to own but the owners are long gone so I had to settle for locations I could buy.
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You should add a link to this thread in your first post:
Thatâs right, theyâre not realistic for a whole lot of reasons, not least because there isnât a big enough market base to justify these over-the-top prices; but it seems to me that ppl were still prepared to buy them anyway. If they hadnât been, sellers would have lowered their prices.
Just added a link to the thread. Nice list of active shops btw!
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More like it because those people actually own the shops when they are not paying rent they are not loosing money in 99% of the cases their items cost more than if you were to obtain from other players or in most cases from auction. The current economical situation and the fact that a lot of properties are held by MA affects what happens ingame Everyone is selling and nobody is buying since the game is tied to real $ . We all see what happens and and i think they are trying to cut losses. Which resulted in remooving lootboxes from migration and canceling the mayhem ! Would even go 1 step further and say that with the economical situation and the fact that the game has fraction of the population itâs time we start considering loot 3.0 and how to actully keep that population in their game. While Unreal engine 5 is a good thing and it will make the graphics better it dosenât actually do any good without introducing new game mechanics and things to keep ppl who pay intrested. People who own stores have been asking for ages for MA to introduce subrenting - allowing others to place a vendor in their store for a fee or %. SInce the begining of time we had no other mechanic in the game players can use to earn other than sweating and finding random items fruits dung stone.
The game you have is still really unique and if you introduce a system where people can enjoy what they do without leaving them bankrupt and sweating 12 hours a day but instead go arround and do what i want and that will probably increase the game population with the new graphics and actually make them spend more money buying better weapon armor skills bringing their friends and community to the game or even have a subscribtion model to have on a seperate planet that is not actually tied to this economy- I know people have been asking for such thing since the game started. Eventually other games that look similar may show up and you will loose even more players if they offer similar expirience without the high cost that would make us loose even more of the playerbase.
The benefit of other similar games showing up is that would probably make MA thinking of what they can do to keep people playing Entropia while the introduction of Loot 2.0 was a step in the right direction it was probably caused by them loosing a considerable ammount of players since the game first started. And the answer is NO - only changing the graphics is not sufficient to keep people at it. While there are people who see the opertunity to invest in order for them to get a return on their investment and even make profit is tied to the number of people who currently play the game because all the veteran players know that you can still make money in entropia but you can make them from other players and not the company itself 
So what happens to profit if those players vanish ?
Who knows what the answer is. The idea for subrenting would do something, but more points of sale is whatâs really needed. I see opportunities almost everywhere I go in EU, but for some reason MA doesnât want to make them available. Or they havenât realised it themselves!
There is a certain person in entropia that i;ve grown to hate goes by the name Marcus itâs about time MA does something about that aswel he has aquired a considerable ammount of property over the years and stoped playing as a result theres a lot of areas with everything owned by him that is not being rented to anyone. There ought to be something in the rules that if you havent logged for years such property as shops that dont generate passive income should revert back to MA ownership. And some claim thats an avatar owned by MA whatever is the reasoning we come back to this prices of shops being inflated as a result that players are kept away from property that can be sold way cheaper
Send a support case to Mindark expressing to them how much you despise this Marcus estate guy. :ROFLMAO:
FUCKIN MARCUS!
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Thats the thing they are actually taking unowned property back and wont release it again so someone else can use it. As a result there are entire deserted areas with terminals disabled owned by Mindark acquisitions or Marcus the broker im supprised the community does not react to that !
Marcus Callender The Estate Broker is real? Donât think so⌠This is MA in disguise; a proxy estate owner, not a real player.
Itâs not Mindark in disguise, Itâs just Mindark. They openly admit to being in control of this avatar. A lot of the properties that still have his name on the terminal could well be owned by other players, but they havenât claimed the terminal yet after the initial sale, for whatever reason. The rest of them have been unreleased and/or seized (i believe Callender owned the Treasure island LAs during the Deathifier lawsuit), and Mindark have obviously deemed it unsuitable to sell them, likely for reasons I have stated before in other threads, namely they donât think the playerbase is large enough to support them, and to protect existing investments from devaluing. They may also be saving them for future event prizes, who knows.
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Then why doesnât it clearly say âowned by MAâ on estate terminals? MCTEB is not real. MA just wants players to think that heâs a real player. MA doesnât need to be in control of an avatar for this. As to more points of sale devaluing existing estates, so what. This would mean more competition and so drive down estate prices in the auction.
Take it up with Mindark.
Donât you understand? This is obviously your fault /s
Well it partly is. I do own a shop that I am greedily keeping from the open market. Iâll take death threats via PM please, just please leave my mother out of them, sheâs a sweet lady, nothing like myself.
I might, but not as a complaint through a support case. Opportunity knocks.
Nah I donât think any subterfuge is intended here. Itâs just a bit of fun. Another NPC as it were almost or a minor bit of game lore if you like. I wonder if there is any story behind the name. Not a âin game storyâ (like Omegaton) to be clear, I mean maybe thereâs some silly story behind how they thought up the name. Like maybe there was a real life estate agent with that name that was particularly memorable to someone at MA and they named their default estate owner after them for a laugh.
Case in point, I named my pet bristlehog Marco Behrman
I named min Marco Beerman. cuz you know It Saul Good ManâŚ
Yep thatâs what I think, MCTEB is an NPC and not a participant as some may think.
Also as mentioned before, MA has said to send in support cases or contact the planet partner of people are interested in getting a shop or land deed back on the auction. They likely wonât do it for one interested person, but it does sound like of there is enough interest, theyâll auction. Iâve seen MA having on occasional Marcus auction for houses-apartments in the last few years at least.
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