POLL: Should MA spend our money upgrading entropia or upgrading castles??

As some of you know MA just released their financial report from 2009SIZE=1[/SIZE] in which a lot of their expenses are listed. This time it also included the address of a previously mentioned property in Germany purchased in June 2006SIZE=1[/SIZE].

A quick google-search of the address gives this puzzling result:
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/10343158.jpg
[SIZE=2]The picture above showing it before the purchase in 2006 - then scheduled for demolition[/SIZE]

Nope.. it’s not a server park! It’s not offices! It’s a castle!

Known as the “white castle” MA spent the next 3 years renovating it and coloring it in their favorite color, no-loot-Yellow;

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/gallery/files/6/6/8/weissesschloss.jpghttps://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/6/6/8/weissesschloss.jpg
[SIZE=2]The picture [/SIZE][SIZE=2]above [/SIZE][SIZE=2]showing it after MA spent large sums renovating it[/SIZE]

Seriously MA; w00t? :lolup:

Purchase price: 195 000 EUR (2006)
Fixing it up : 1 150 000 EUR (so far)

Trivia:
74 000 square meters property
600 square meters residential area

References:
1 p27 http://www.mindark.com/press/financial-reports/documents/MindArk-arsredovisning-2009.pdf

2 p13 ftp://ftp.mindark.se/reports/AnnualReport2006_LOW.pdf

http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article351212/Saechsische_Kuturimmobilien_unter_dem_Hammer.html&ei=duAXTNiHNMqknQe53_GmCg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEUQ7gEwBw

For googlemaps check out; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Gnomenstieg+4,+01156+Dresden,+Tyskland&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Gnomenstieg+4,+Cossebaude+01156+Dresden,+Saxony,+Germany&gl=us&ei=qNIXTIDfGMO78gbxtYjyDA&ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&t=h&ll=51.086375,13.620542&spn=0.000954,0.00284&z=19

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Damn it’s ugly.

MA are now selling that property as they have no use for it :slight_smile:

its in the annuall report

I want to know the damn reason for buying it in the first place!

Aaah the castle … :wink:

Mindark is resellers :smiley: this is how they make cash

Maybe they wanted to bring Murder burgers to Germany?

I can’t believe i’m about to say this…:eyecrazy: but…

I agree with Legion. :stuck_out_tongue:

:laugh:

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Nice to hear that my money went for restoration of one of our old castles. :cool:

Now I can see a sense in paying such a lot of money for a virtual game! :yay:

A German Castle…?

Was this going to be their Bank? I have to say I’m confused about how that purchase could have served MA.
But I do like to point out that it is not our money once we hand it over to them freely without coercion.

They should put it in the loot pool :woot:

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Translate it as “money from us” :slight_smile:

Anyway this is nothing bad, i would say you can profit a damn lot of money, but all depends on how much you spend on reconstruction, or better to say how you generally manage it :wink:

Both Jan & Marco have seperate throne rooms there :laugh: :wtg:

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No big surprise here. I would be surprised if Entropia Universe was present at E3 Expo in Los Angeles, one of the largest games exposition of the year. Those castles don´t help to incress the player base! Ohhh forget it. The servers can hardly handle the existing players now. :confused:

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MA is doing what the players’ do? Resell?

I want to loot that castle would be perfect for a holiday house :king:

And which other gaming company/service provider/platform developer can brag about owning a rl castle(PR oppertunity) :smiley:

Ok,

U all just dont get it!!!

THIS CASTLE WAS THE HOME OF THE SPACE PIRATES!:wise:

But the space pirates striked and decided to require more government funding and went bankrupt anyway so MA foreclosed on their property i guess..

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I agree with the above. Completely useless purchase. However, I think it does look rather good in yellow..but it would be better in purple or neon purple. :smiley:

well if there actually was a purpose to buy the damn thing then it might not been useless. But since we players have no idea if there was a purpose i call Completely useless on that castle!! And just pure pissing our money into the sea.

I think this about defines epic for me :laugh:

But it’s not that hard, with the money players invest in virtual property, they invest in rl property. I guess they are chasing their fantasies a bit too litteral. You cannot be taken seriously as a bank with such an ‘outlet’. :laugh: