-- Avatar Janus JD D'Arcwire, representing a real life bank (more
information to follow) - paid $59,060
-- Russian Internet Payment Provider MONETA.ru, by avatar Yuri iNTellect
Efremov - paid $99,900
-- Entropia celebrity and famed virtual night club owner Jon NEVERDIE
Jacobs - paid $90,000
-- Famous cross-world virtual celebrity and entrepreneur Anshe Chung -
paid $60,000
-- The avatar "Jolana Kitty Brice" (veteran Entropia Universe participant
and entrepreneur who wishes to remain anonymous at this time) - paid
$95,000
The virtual Entropia Universe banks will work similarly to real world
banks. Initially, they will be provided with secure systems enabling them
to lend money to participants and collect interest, design and name their
own virtual bank building(s), utilize the extensive advertising
opportunities available, and make their own personnel available through
avatars that can interact with and provide service to other avatars. In
order to get the virtual banks operational, each winner must add $100,000
as operational capital. As the only virtual universe whose currency has a
fixed exchange rate with the US Dollar, Entropia Universe is providing a
means for interested investors to be proactively involved with a real
economy on a financial and creative front. The funds acquired in Entropia
Universe can easily be withdrawn into real life cash.
With over 580,000 registered accounts, Entropia Universe had a 2006
turnover of over 360 million dollars. MindArk PE AB's Business Development
Director David Simmonds enthused, "We are thrilled to welcome these five
new partners to Entropia Universe. As we continue to set records in the
virtual realm, the next two years will be a prosperous, successful time for
all parties involved." MindArk CIO Marco Behrmann continues, "This further
proves the Entropia concept of having a secure, reliable, and stable
economic environment for doing business. The five banks will have
integrated services within the mechanics of Entropia Universe and will not
just be virtual advertising spots." More information about the virtual
banking licenses is available here:
http://account.entropiauniverse.com/pe/en/rich/6357.html
About the Winners
MONETA.RU is an Internet payment provider that was established in Russia in
2005. The website of the company is www.moneta.ru. The company's main goal
is providing the most secure and comfortable online payments for its
customers -- merchants and online shoppers -- on the Russian and CIS
market. At the moment MONETA.RU is experiencing a rapid development due to
being a payment gateway that aggregates all the most popular payment
systems and solutions available on the Russian market and therefore
providing the most powerful payment tool for merchants. Online shoppers
use MONETA.RU as an e-wallet and enjoy the most complete list of available
deposit and withdrawal options. All transactions are processed with the
maximum speed and comfort, and are protected by the cutting-edge security
system of MONETA.RU. The company's development strategy lies in
orientation of partnerships with foreign companies. MONETA.RU is the first
and only Russian processor of online payments which was purposely founded
to assist overseas companies with entering the Russian and CIS market and
sharing its enormous potential.
Bank NEVERDIE, The Gamers' Bank™, is one of the first financial
institutions to exist entirely and only in Virtual Reality. Founded in
Entropia Universe, Bank NEVERDIE is operated by famous gamer Jon "NEVERDIE"
Jacobs, expanding upon a diverse virtual entertainment brand that includes
the Club NEVERDIE asteroid space resort, shopping mall and nightclub, the
NEVERDIE Mega Championship stadium, a virtual arena for sporting events and
live concerts (currently under construction), Phasm Forest and Kingfisher
Beach. In addition, Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs is involved in the "MMOWC"
Massive Multiplayer Online World Championships, an annual global event to
find the Best Online Gamer in the World, and the VWAwards: The Virtual
World Awards, a virtual red carpet event that honors creativity across all
platforms in virtual reality, and www.RealityPort.com, a web based portal
into virtual reality.
Since 2004, the Anshe Chung Studios (ACS) has been the global leader in
virtual real estate development on open virtual world platforms.
Originally founded by Anshe Chung as an entirely virtual business in Second
Life, it has evolved into a real company with more than 60 full-time
employees turning over millions of dollars per year with virtual real
estate, content development and virtual financial services. In 2007, ACS
received high profile venture capital investment and has begun to branch
out into additional virtual worlds. Besides thousands of virtual world
residents and pioneers, ACS features key clients such as Fortune 100
companies, churches and governments, whose entry into virtual territory has
been designed and developed by ACS.
About Entropia Universe
The heart of Entropia Universe is a distant planet named Calypso, which
encompasses two continents with animal-filled wildernesses and large
expanding cities that offer a variety of entertainment and social
interaction for its participants. In Entropia, participants can create
their own persona, or avatar, via a character generation system, and then
have the option of choosing a suitable life and virtual existence for their
avatar. Characters are able to enter the evolving worlds of Entropia
Universe, which are full of unexplored and uncultivated lands.
Participants can join a community or even create a civilization of their
own. Entropia offers a new avenue for individuals to pursue dreams,
fantasies, and adventures in an astoundingly 'real' virtual universe.
In December 2004, Entropia Universe set a world record, certified by the
Guinness Book of World Records, when it sold a virtual Treasure Island for
$26,500 USD as the largest virtual dollar amount spent, to 22-year old
Australian David Storey, a.k.a. "Deathifier." In October 2005, the sale of
an asteroid based space resort for $100,000 USD to famed gamer, Jon
'NEVERDIE' Jacobs, set a new record for the most valuable virtual item.
Entropia Universe is a registered trademark of MindArk PE AB. MindArk
supports and monitors the services and maintenance of the Entropia Universe
site. MindArk began in April of 2003 in Sweden, and has expanded to have
partners throughout the world. Entropia Universe was launched in 2003 and
has reached over 580,000 registered accounts. MindArk offers the Entropia
Universe software to users free of charge with no monthly costs or
associated subscription fees. For more information or to download the free
Entropia Universe software please visit www.entropiauniverse.com. For more
information about Entropia Universe's developer, MindArk, please visit
www.mindark.com.
Contact Information: Contact: Elina Heng Terpin Communications Group (310)821-6100 x108 Email Contact