The MMO Gamer: The last time we had a chance to speak to MindArk, you were planning on a large-scale expansion into China. How has that been going?

David Simmonds: That’s been going great. With the expansion going into China we’re incorporating the CryTek 2 engine. You can go on the website, entropiauniverse.com, and see the Flash. It’s amazing. The new graphic engine is so realistic.

When we introduce the Chinese planets, and when we open up space, the CryTek engine will be include in that expansion, as well. This is expected to be middle to late of next year.

Another exciting thing which is happening, we’ve got game developers—which you would think would be competition to us, another game developer—but instead of them making their own platform, and making their own game or virtual world, they’ve chosen to come to our virtual world and use the Entropia Universe platform to build their own planet, which will have their own rich content.

We are a universe, we’re an open universe, so all of our users will be able to go and visit these planets. It’s going to be really exciting. This is just one of the partners we’re talking to, there are a lot of different companies that are interested in opening up their own presence inside Entropia Universe. But, as I said before, we’re very careful with who we take in. We’re not a three-dimensional website, but we want our users to be interested and want to come in.

The MMO Gamer: In terms of the Chinese expansion, is everyone playing on the same server, or do Eastern players have their own separate worlds from Western players?

David Simmonds: With the Chinese planets, because, maybe you’ve read, they’ve estimated that within two years they’re going to be having 150,000,000 accounts and 7,000,000 concurrent users. That’s very ambitious.

The MMO Gamer: Yes… it is.

David Simmonds: They will be hosting their own servers. But, as I said, Entropia Universe is an open platform, so you will be able to travel to these different planets. The Chinese system is really exciting, it’s not going to be one planet, they’re going to have education, ecommerce, gaming, of course, and there’s going to be a lot of different planets you can go and visit.

Some of them will be harder than others for a normal person to visit. That means it’ll probably cost more money to visit some planets than others. You’ll have to travel in space, exactly the same as you would in the real world—hopefully—in the future, we’ve got a lot of planets to go to, some are harder to get to and some are easier.

The MMO Gamer: So if the Eastern and Western worlds are linked together, will the PED [Project Entropia Dollar, the game’s unit of currency] hold the same value in both areas?

David Simmonds: Absolutely. As I’ve said before, Entropia Universe is an economic platform. Any partner which comes in and uses our platform will have to be under the umbrella of Entropia Universe.

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