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<\/a><\/p>\nNo, I don’t know why the Earth is undergoing mitosis.<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n
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2 Earth 2 Furious<\/h3>\n
Earth 2 was launched in November 2020. The idea is that Earth 2 will be a finely detailed representation of the surface of the entire globe<\/i>: [Earth 2<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n We aim for Earth 2\u00ae to be the beginning of the Earth’s fully immersive virtual reality similar to “The Matrix” or “Ready Player One”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The development is being done by a small indie team called Five Studios. Five Studios\u2019 total output is DRONE, an arena shooter game based on the Unity engine. DRONE was released as early access (an unfinished public beta), but hasn\u2019t been updated since late 2020 \u2014 about when Earth 2 was announced. [Steam<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n Earth 2 promises some excellent future gameplay, the first two parts of which sound like DRONE: [Earth 2 Draft Update 2022<\/i><\/a>, PDF<\/i>]<\/p>\n None of this exists at all. Here is what you can presently do in Earth 2:<\/p>\n But there is a trading system \u2014 and it uses your actual money!<\/p>\n The only bit of Earth 2 that does anything right now is the virtual land trading system. Earth 2 is very proud of this, per the 2022 Update document:<\/p>\n Earth 2 experienced unprecedented growth and remains the biggest registry of virtual land holdings in the world across all metrics, including the amount of land sold and the number of unique people who own that land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The way Earth 2 virtual land sales work is:<\/p>\n Why would you buy the land? It\u2019ll be worth a bundle, when the game finally exists and you can be a virtual landlord!<\/p>\n Putting your actual money in to buy game currency just needs a credit card. Getting actual money out<\/i> requires passing full Know-Your-Customer checks. The withdrawal process is convoluted and, based on user reports, fails a lot.<\/p>\n Back here on Earth 1, Earth 2 has set up a negative-sum trading system where existing players can only make money if more fresh money comes in.<\/p>\n To get that fresh money in, Earth 2 promotes itself via affiliate marketing, where you can get 5% commission for recruiting a new user. This leads to a flood of spammy blogs and videos promoting Earth 2. The affiliate fees are paid in game currency. [Earth 2<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>archive<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n PC Games.de called out Earth 2 at length: \u201cScam-MMOs: Earth 2 \u2014 Der Cashshop ohne Spiel\u201d (The Cash Shop Without a Game). [PC Games.de<\/a>, in German<\/i>]<\/p>\n Earth 2 doesn\u2019t seem to have started as a cryptocurrency project. That came later.<\/p>\n Keen to get into the richest present resource of really dedicated suckers, Earth 2 hooked up with the Polygon blockchain in December 2021, to do \u201cdecentralized\u201d Earth 2 assets. The 2022 Update document says \u201cWeb3\u201d a lot. The game currency will become a cryptocurrency, at some future point. [AIThority<\/i><\/a>; <\/i>E2News<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n But the way Earth 2 is really<\/i> like crypto is the community, which is thoroughly dedicated to number go up,<\/a> and disclaims technical critiques as \u201cFUD.\u201d This company and community were already fully primed to go crypto.<\/p>\n Earth 2\u2019s promises caught a lot of attention from gamers and game developers. But it turns out that gamers are fussy, and game developers are technically knowledgeable and can tell when someone\u2019s blowing hot air. For the past year, gaming YouTube has been ripping the piss out of the Earth 2 project.<\/p>\n Earth 2 finally released a tech demo video on 17 March 2022: \u201cWorld Rendering Progress \u2014 Procedurally Generated Versatility at Scale.\u201d The video brags about Earth 2\u2019s \u201chigh performance proprietary rendering pipeline\u201d as their secret sauce. [YouTube<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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Charles Ponzi, game developer<\/h3>\n
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Earth 2 goes crypto<\/h3>\n
The $10,000 challenge<\/h3>\n