July 15, 2007 by Sarah Nerd
Yea that's right, I cheated on Second Life. I went and tried out a new game for a few hours. My real life Husband read an article about a up and coming game called Project Entropia. He downloaded it, and bookmarked an article about the game thinking I would be interested because like second life in Entropia, game currency equals real money and it was supposed to be a more advanced and visually appealing. The download was killer, must have taken 4 hours on a cable connection so while I waited I read up a few things.
It has some very cool features on the financial end. For example, it's free to play. The in game currency has a regulated value, and the game offers a debit card where you can get your funds instantly. You are able to collect and sell items in world to other players that fit into the sci-fi game.
Well my download finished and I give it a try. I didn't much care for the avatar creation tools. Although the avatar seemed very detailed, I felt as if I was making small changes to a basically unchangeable avatar. What sucked even more, as you save your prompted with a message stating that you will never be able to change your own image again, although in game you can pay body face and hair artists. Well that kinda stinks buy hey what do I know.
Next it sends me into the world itself. I wander around looking for someone to give me the lowdown or just game basics. The only response I was able to get from anyone was when I asked a guy, "Whats the objective" and he replied "To have fun, Duh". Well 2 people if you count the guy who followed me for a bit pointing a gun at me but not talking. Over the rest of the night I logged in a few times, wandered aimlessly but never found a reason to stay or even a general understanding of the format of the game.
I think I'd have to sit down and give it a real long and hard try to give it a proper review, But at this point I don't think it's "Better than Second Life" as a few articles suggested.
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Irritating noobs
"I asked a guy, "Whats the objective""
I remember how SL greeters hated that question 9 months ago. I smile when I think you recycling the question.
VRs usually suck.
Your memories that people were helpful for newbies in SL are simply fake. When the French came in a wave, one greeter repeatedly told them that "this is an American sim, you should get out from here" LOL
I still have the log, to cool down SL advertisers.
I assume that the EU client download contains the textures, thus EU has less lag than SL.
I have never been in EU but the best part of it is competition in VRs which will beat the shit out of Linden Lab. Or kill it, if they don't take their medicine. I won't miss LL, if it doesn't survive the competition, because I know the bastards.
Well my personal memories of
Well my personal memories of people being very helpful to me personally were not fake in any way, but when I joined there were not nearly as many people.
I just joined Second Life,
I just joined Second Life, and people have been incredibly helpful. Heck, one even let me move into an apartment in a great sim for a month - free. :)
"just joined" - well I got banned from one sim for being 13 days old when I thought I had been on SL for 2 weeks (needed to be 14 days old to enter), so I'll continue saying "just joined" for a little bit longer.
Blah, Entropia!
I too attempted Entropia based on some reports saying it was better than SL. If that's better than SL, then somewhere along the line, my SL must have been screwed up because I love SL. lol Someone attempted to get me to be their "disciple" on Entropia, but did not offer any guidance or tell me even how to walk better.
3 days of trying out Entropia was enough.
ouch...
...ouch! you're right when you say you should have to sit down and give it a real long and hard try to give it a proper review. this is the same kind of analysis that i often read about Second Life and that leave me disappointed. basically you don't get it, so you don't like it. this is not a good analysis of a tool / service / virtual environment. i hope my comment is useful to you.
I agree with you! I do need
I agree with you! I do need to give it a better go, but just wandering aimless for an hour with no clue or guidence, honestly I just grew bored. With Second Life, I met people within seconds and and was handed free clothing, informative notecards and so on within mins. This might just be because of a bigger sl population and welcome area tp set up although when I started there were roughly 2000 people on at any given time. I'm really not sure what the numbers are on Entropia. I will give it a better try soon, but my first impression was that it was not as inviting as secondlife. While I was waiting for the download I talked Bella and Flea into downloading and checking it out as well, and neither of them had a wonderful first impression. I'm gonna give it a better go this week because the articles on it sounded great, I just need to find out how to really get "into the game".
And also, I don't consider myself a good analyst, this is just my blog so I just talk about what I do in my day to day and my personal feelings.
Looking at it myself.
I was dismayed that it is basically a '[w:Microsoft] User Only' space. From the download page:
That knocks off an immediate 3 points of 10 on a review - 1 for each mainstream operating system not supported and an extra point for not supporting BOTH.
The next thing was the installer itself. While a small initial download, there's no indication on how large the installation is itself in download size - DUMB - so it loses another point, leaving it with 6.
THEN when it was doing it's little deal, I see one time for downloading at 32.1kbps to be estimated at 12 hours... Screw That. It can't be THAT good. Loses 1 cool point there, too.
So that's 5 out of 10. Not interested. Do better.