The first MMOG received a banking license



    Game Entropia Universe is the first MMOG in the world to receive a formal banking license (in Sweden) and in the course of the year promises to register a normal, full-fledged bank. True, this bank will not have a single branch in the physical world. They will serve only depositors from the planet Calypso (their game accounts are now insured by the state).

    Entropia is a space strategy where the game is played for real money (that is, the exchange of game currency for US dollars is officially allowed). In other words, there you can conduct a normal and full-fledged business, which is no different from offline counterparts - retail, show business, rental of premises, etc. The turnover of the gaming universe last year was about $ 420 million.

    Some successful players earn a lot of money: tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now they don’t need to transfer earnings from Calypso to Earth, and they can put honestly earned money on deposit without leaving the game client. Again, without leaving their home planet Calypso, players can now pay for an apartment in an offline world, take loans, cash checks, etc.

    But the most important thing is that the standard state insurance for deposits with Swedish banks is now extended to the gaming accounts of all 850,000 inhabitants of the planet Calypso, which guarantees the state to return the amount up to $ 60,000.

    Via AP

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