I don't think this is the biggest scam but I think that's more of a perception than anything that said fundamentally what is going on with wata games and American Heritage is pretty damning
I’m surprised that any of this has survived this long when they haven’t answered the basic question of “what kind of game will this be”. Because by their own definition, they’re just setting up a shittier VR chat.
@@waynealan3067 that like saying "its a gobagoo in devolpment" aka nonsense term made to bloat these morons crap product the real term for what there making is a second life rip off a social life MMO
The game is not important , it's just fluff to obfuscate the scheme and try to avoid regulations. Just look how long its taken countries to update gambling laws to include "games" and even then only a few have done anything of note. It will be long while yet until trading regulations catches up.
i theorize they're laundering money. i would be easy to pose as a "player" and pump some money into some tiles and voila, legal currency. that's why they partenerd with junk PR firms and nobodies as developers: if the authorities asks them they can say: "look, we are trying to make a game, we got developers and PR firms and all the things that a game company should have"
that's probably what this is, but to my knowledge nobody has yet been able to cash out? Maybe i'm wrong, i'm not interested enough to look it up.. Of course the organisations would get their money back, i don't think even the people behind Earth2 are so dumb to try and steal money from the mob.
@@odinstorm17 well it could still be money laundering. Say they have illegal income from lets say drug smuggling. They oull in around 5 mil lets say. So they give that five mil to some buddies under anonymous screen names who then purchase these tiles and whatnot giving the money back to them clean cuz it came from a legitimate source. Other people buying in is a bonus scam on top of the money laundering
@@odinstorm17 bitcoin is traceable. monero is the private one. but even if there was monero, or bitcoin or whatever token, you can't buy anything with that. so you would have to turn it into cash. after a certain sum the government comes to stea... i mean to make sure you pay taxes... to avoid that you would need to use a lot of wallets with a lot of people and a lot of bank accounts to not atract the atention of the IRS. a company can launder more money per unit of time claiming it's revenue. of course, everything depends on the countries laws and stuff like that, so who knows?...
The holobuildings are the most hilarious part of this whole ongoing scam...they literally just enabled a mapbox feature that lets you put down colored shapes on your virtual land, and they're charging you MONEY to put down these fake building blueprints in a game that doesnt exist on property that does nothing.
Polygon based height extrusion is a basic feature of most gis software. It's just a command you run, nothing special at all. This was revolutionary back in... '95.
The funniest is gonna be when someone out there, and you KNOW this'll happen, tries to claim ownership of an actual physical property cause they own the earth 2 tile and the owner is gonna crush their delusions by producing an actual deed of ownership. Plus, don't take advice from anyone on sharktank, how many of those people are currently under investigation or being charged for one reason or another.
I've been hearing about "Earth 2" for a while, but I didn't have any context, so I assumed people were talking about the underrated 90s sci-fi show of the same name. Like maybe people rediscovered it, or it was getting a reboot or something. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it's some weird internet scam.
Rando: "Dude you should try Earth 2. You can buy and sell virtual property!" Me: "But what can I do with that property?" Rando: "Um... Buy and sell." Me: "But why would I want to buy a tile? Can I use them to build an army?" Rando: "Nope." Me: "Manage roads and infrastructure?" Rando: "Nope." Me: "Build a giant penis statue?" Rando: "What? No." Me: "Can I kill noobs and take their tiles?" Rando: "No, you can't steal. Only buy and sell." Me: "Then what is the point?"
@@TGBurgerGaming "the last time"? I'm sorry I was under the assumption that you could sell your tiles for MONEY for crypto "in the future" Which means you CAN LAUNDER MONEY.
@@Patrickf5087 1. if you buy something online you leave a digital record meaning, you can trace the money back to the original purchase. So you have washed nothing in fact you've created evidence where it didn't previously exist. 2. If your method of washing money requires you to forfeit the money or even risks your money not returning at all (if nobody buys your tiles). You're simply an idiot. 3. You need to fully understand what money laundering actually is before you make statements like that. If you can't hide the source of your income and if your income is decimated during the process you could just get a real job and pay taxes like everyone else.
There's already games like this, they're called Second Life and Entropia Universe. Plot twist! They're not very popular... yet they somehow stay alive through their incredibly niche player bases. They found a way to extort far fewer players for more cash than a larger game would with more players.
As someone who still plays SL (albeit briefly in bursts), I mainly play it because it’s easy to meet friends from other parts of the globe there. No, it’s most assuredly NOT perfect! There’s a predator problem that few folks really talk about, and until recently it heavily benefitted from Gatcha mechanics utilized by sellers (mainly artists who made/ stole assets for furniture and avatars, only really stopped because of laws that made it impossible to keep Gatcha on there because of how Lindens function and Linden Labs is too lazy to make an alternative in-game specific money), not to mention how a vast majority of adults (from personal experience) throw tantrums that can and DO end with someone’s SIM getting deleted. However, there are still gold nuggets among the utter dumpster fire, both of SIMs and people. I tend to stick to myself or friends I know outside it though.
They have a shitload of disclaimers when you sign up and even on their public site beforehand. Probably more to the point: people hate to admit that they did something completely retarded and hold on to that one sliver of hope that people will buy their virtual dirt for a profit.
Maybe cuz anyone with half a brain cell, buttload of money and balls to take someone to court has not YET invested into this scam besides plebs that will lose money and do nothing about it.
I mean you have to give them credit for bringing the insidious mobile gaming monetization to it's logical conclusion: You can buy tiles and jewels and collect ether and have all these currencies, without even having a game attached as windowdressing.
I get the idea behind this as the future of interactivity is likely a fully realized virtual world but even in Ready Player One it wasn’t just one virtual Earth. It’s full of different universes, planets and zones. And when this full virtual world takes off what’s to stop another company say Microsoft from bypassing whatever Earth 2 is doing and selling server space for people to create their own worlds from the start and not having to spend thousands on tiles and resources? Even if it’s very rough and glitchy, why can’t I go to a tile I purchased and walk around and start building? Even Earth 2 looks like Minecraft or knock off Lego World it’s something.
Another thing that happened recently in regards to advertising for Earth 2 was that they took reactions of Critikal ,and cut/paste them on top of Earth 2 promo footage to make it look like he endorses the product somehow.
I still don't even remotely understand why anyone would consider digital assets in a dead sandbox worth it to pay real money. In the end all the value is dictated by what collectors value it, as it has no use/value in itself, but what kind of brainlet believes there are so many millions interested to invest money into collecting otherwise worthless digital assets? Heck it's like offering to sell a high level account of an online MMORPG after it's servers have been shut down...
You gotta love the UA-camrs like Arya Reality and the Earth 2 Meta. It's bad enough that kid who (Tanner Rosankovic) scammed ppl on Steam (Civil Contract, Capital Gaming RP, also was underage when published it onto Steam. Then apparently he went to the Australian military,, and left soon after. Makes me think he lied about that too just to get ppl off his back) lied about a lawsuit, while the Earth 2 big guy didn't reassure anyone, nor punish him. Instead, he called ppl like Bigfry bullies. Defended him, etc. It was pathetic and disgusting. He wronged ppl and got defended. Just BC he was a kid at the time. Doesn't mean he didn't lie, threaten, false flagged, and broke the law.
@@roflBeck or he has a higher position in the earth 2 scam than we actually know. (Like he could be one of the owners given his record of scamming people)
I have been thinking of how one could make something similar, but better: 1. Different planet(s?) - Instead of earth, make a random generated world, mainly to avoid any copyrights. and if there's enough players, multiple worlds/servers could simply be different planets (and they might even be able to interact with each other, as if they were in the same solar system) 2. Resource focus - Instead of focusing on selling the land itself, you focus on what the land can produce, and the tiles of land that don't have any "direct" natural resources, can be turned into farmland or you can build something to refine the resources. 3. Ingame currency - Being able to earn ingame currency and use it to buy stuff, of course still have premium currency, but it should not focus on premium and real money. 4. World reactions - When you do something, it can result in an reaction in the game world, fx. a lot of factories are build in one area, the plantlife starts producing less, a lot of "work stations" is build within a certain distance/area, and a town starts forming. 5. AI controlled areas - An "AI player" should be able to control various tiles (mainly towns/cities and special tiles), all players can interact with them, but can't control them. 6. Supply and Demand - Towns/cities want and requires resources, materials and goods, to be maintained and grow, and the players earn money from it, but every town/city has an inventory and daily use, the more of something it already have and the less it uses of it, the cheaper it is and the less it will pay to buy it, this will make a "fluctuating market" system possible. ALSO events might happen, that changes the demand (fx. a health craze so the price of certain food items rise, while others fall, or a large building project, so building materials price rise. AND the area/world then react to how the event was met by the players, supply thhe building project enough and the city will grow an extra step) It may sound boring to some, but I think a "huge world market game" would be possible with it.
But why did the tile with the Statue of Liberty cost so much? According to the devs, when the actual VR portion is implemented, the Statue won't be there. Nothing will be anywhere! It's a fresh start on Earth!
My initial reaction upon seeing this was, "are you kidding me? I thought we were done with this one!" I mean seriously, nothing should surprise me anymore but how can there still be more to this story?!?
I wonder if a world where going back to middle ages would work. Like some guy named Jeff B buys a kingdom amount of land and then hires 12 "knights" to manage sections of that land, each "knight" then hires X number of people to farm and mine that land. Maybe be called up to fight to protect that land, or if they hate their situation they wont and take the chance with the new ruler.
I was really surprised by the gordian quest bit: I saw it on steam a litfle while back, looked genuinely fun and solid, had good reviews, picked it up on a sale, and it's on my to-do list with a few other games I got around the same time. Reviews are generally happy and seem sincere, I had no idea it was tied to some ...yeah... "company" because it appears genuinely solid. So that's bizarre.
Were not dealing with idiots...were watching geniuses scam themselves into a corner of legal implications. I cant wait until this boils over and catches fire. Lets continue to watch!
I remember reading articles about big companies buying virtual land and building virtual business in Second Life - that was like 10+ years ago, these ideas about virtual ownership is by no means a new phenomenon, but it is interesting to see how well these virtual lands can establish themselves on markets who (to my knowledge) are not ready nor showing much interest, besides potential monetary gains that depend on massive success.
@@Cat_in_The-Box true but it's the whole money generating focus that relates to this video. It wouldn't surprise me if wargaming is actively nerfing ships during battle as well as matchmaking to manipulate who is on the winning team. Free to play but pay to win.
@@Cat_in_The-Box ask yourself why wargaming keeps releasing premium ships and more importantly why people continue to buy them. There has to be some incentive because people don't generally give money away for nothing. Jingles put out a video recently describing how world of tanks will top tier premium tanks for the first 20 battles - basically seal clubbing lower tier tanks. This looks a lot like pay to win but the real problem is wargamings focus on money and how they can manipulate battles to reward whales by putting things in the game players don't want like CV and subs instead of improving the game with new maps.
This is starting to sound a lot like how certain games on Facebook played. Time wasters, that gives a false sense of accomplishment for literally spending more time on the game as well logging in daily.
I theorize that this is to both scam people out of their money and to lay the groundwork for patent trolling in the future when legitimate approaches of this so-called metaverse concept appear.
In another week or so there will be the scooby gang and they will find the criminal and take off their scary mask only to find UEG under the mask. Oh I'd enjoy that plot twist....
That was the most random intro I've heard in awhile. I'm thinking, if an investigative journalist was ever hurt, it would be by some thug because he got too close to uncovering the truth... but no, no, no. He was hurt setting up a basketball hoop.
Earth 2 is like a troll gift. You know, the ones you wrap in many many beautiful hulls when there's a pile of dogshit in the middle for a friend to open. I'm absolutely hyped to see what comes out of this one. I'm inclined to say it's dogshit, but it could also be the insides of my cat litter box. I'm absolutely entertained by what this is becoming.
Programs like Earth 2 will never be like The Oasis. Not because it couldn't be made, but because The Oasis was made with pure fun in mind. Games in general are now made with profit in mind first and fun second. If a game like The Oasis was actually made right now it wouldn't be anything like the Ready Player One version because the developer/publisher space is too corrupt. That's why I've taken a step back from newer games and have been playing games from the PS2 that I genuinely love. Because you can tell they were made with fun in mind.
@@zuzoscorner It is unrealistic, but not because it couldn't be done. It's because the devs and publishers refuse to do it. They definitely have the money for developing it too, they just don't want to spend it on actual gaming innovation like that. Players settling for less isn't helping either but it's definitely more on the industry.
Man I can't believe thats still going on. Thats some giga scam buyers remorse level stuff. poor people getting suckered into it thinking it would be the next "thing".
This is a perfect example of the sunk cost fallacy. These player/invester's might as well burn their money. "The sunk cost fallacy occurs because our emotions often cause us to deviate from rational decisions. Abandoning an endeavor after committing to it and investing resources into it is likely to cause negative feelings of guilt and wastefulness."
There's literally more satisfaction in being a sugar mommy/daddy and watching your bank account drain than "investing" in this garbage. At least you can pretend you have game.
BUY THE MERCH!
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We should Call everyone within Earth 2 and their defenders:
Earth 2 Defense Force
I don't think this is the biggest scam but I think that's more of a perception than anything that said fundamentally what is going on with wata games and American Heritage is pretty damning
I sense a disturbance in the force. Oh wait, it's just Earthgate.
Remember, a shill a day keeps another gamer away.
Hey man how are you feeling?
Are you sure it's not a sign that basketball is vastly inferior to hockey?
I’m surprised that any of this has survived this long when they haven’t answered the basic question of “what kind of game will this be”. Because by their own definition, they’re just setting up a shittier VR chat.
They keep changing it to, it’s shitty VR chat where you have to buy land and physical travel places. Also pvp some where some how
@@waynealan3067 that like saying "its a gobagoo in devolpment" aka nonsense term made to bloat these morons crap product the real term for what there making is a second life rip off a social life MMO
This garbage looks like a heavily monetized version of Sim City or City Skylines.
The game is not important , it's just fluff to obfuscate the scheme and try to avoid regulations. Just look how long its taken countries to update gambling laws to include "games" and even then only a few have done anything of note. It will be long while yet until trading regulations catches up.
@@joeyhamilton6854 cuz you have to attract The gamers somehow
i theorize they're laundering money. i would be easy to pose as a "player" and pump some money into some tiles and voila, legal currency. that's why they partenerd with junk PR firms and nobodies as developers: if the authorities asks them they can say: "look, we are trying to make a game, we got developers and PR firms and all the things that a game company should have"
That..... Actually makes loads of sense...
that's probably what this is, but to my knowledge nobody has yet been able to cash out? Maybe i'm wrong, i'm not interested enough to look it up.. Of course the organisations would get their money back, i don't think even the people behind Earth2 are so dumb to try and steal money from the mob.
It would be easier to buy bitcoin or nfl for money laundering than doing all this so I think these guys are just pure scammers.
@@odinstorm17 well it could still be money laundering. Say they have illegal income from lets say drug smuggling. They oull in around 5 mil lets say. So they give that five mil to some buddies under anonymous screen names who then purchase these tiles and whatnot giving the money back to them clean cuz it came from a legitimate source. Other people buying in is a bonus scam on top of the money laundering
@@odinstorm17 bitcoin is traceable. monero is the private one. but even if there was monero, or bitcoin or whatever token, you can't buy anything with that. so you would have to turn it into cash. after a certain sum the government comes to stea... i mean to make sure you pay taxes... to avoid that you would need to use a lot of wallets with a lot of people and a lot of bank accounts to not atract the atention of the IRS. a company can launder more money per unit of time claiming it's revenue. of course, everything depends on the countries laws and stuff like that, so who knows?...
The holobuildings are the most hilarious part of this whole ongoing scam...they literally just enabled a mapbox feature that lets you put down colored shapes on your virtual land, and they're charging you MONEY to put down these fake building blueprints in a game that doesnt exist on property that does nothing.
Polygon based height extrusion is a basic feature of most gis software. It's just a command you run, nothing special at all. This was revolutionary back in... '95.
The funniest is gonna be when someone out there, and you KNOW this'll happen, tries to claim ownership of an actual physical property cause they own the earth 2 tile and the owner is gonna crush their delusions by producing an actual deed of ownership.
Plus, don't take advice from anyone on sharktank, how many of those people are currently under investigation or being charged for one reason or another.
We will call them the NEXT step to Karens. And I hope this happens just so we can have entertainment.
I'm waiting for some schizo to try that shit and end up getting blasted.
Wanna laugh more, imagine the players trying to claim ownership of a government or military property.
Earth2 might be a scam, but I got good feelings about Earth3.
I am waiting for Earth 10, I prefer even multiples of .......10
@@dragons_red of course they are going to skip earth 9
I bought a iPhone 3000 with earth 20 on it, it arrives next Tues
Third time's the charm! 🤞
Earth 76
Earth 2 is like Herpes: It's the Gift that keeps on giving...and ruins everything
Took the words right out of my mouth
@@Novablaze777 I was gonna say it was like a period,, but those are once a month. Earth 2 is more than that
Herp 2
@@sprayender2002?
@@spyr0guy they can trade digital antibiotics and such
Lol, it'll be like A DLC for Plaque INC
I've been hearing about "Earth 2" for a while, but I didn't have any context, so I assumed people were talking about the underrated 90s sci-fi show of the same name. Like maybe people rediscovered it, or it was getting a reboot or something.
Imagine my disappointment when I found out it's some weird internet scam.
Rando: "Dude you should try Earth 2. You can buy and sell virtual property!"
Me: "But what can I do with that property?"
Rando: "Um... Buy and sell."
Me: "But why would I want to buy a tile? Can I use them to build an army?"
Rando: "Nope."
Me: "Manage roads and infrastructure?"
Rando: "Nope."
Me: "Build a giant penis statue?"
Rando: "What? No."
Me: "Can I kill noobs and take their tiles?"
Rando: "No, you can't steal. Only buy and sell."
Me: "Then what is the point?"
"How do I grind for enough money to buy the tiles? What's the gameplay like?"
"No, you use IRL money."
"Oh."
This feels more like to be abused for money laundering
@@Patrickf5087 for the last time. If you're losing money you're not laundering it, you're spending it. Which is earth 2 with 50c change at the end.
@@TGBurgerGaming "the last time"?
I'm sorry I was under the assumption that you could sell your tiles for MONEY for crypto "in the future"
Which means you CAN LAUNDER MONEY.
@@Patrickf5087 1. if you buy something online you leave a digital record meaning, you can trace the money back to the original purchase. So you have washed nothing in fact you've created evidence where it didn't previously exist.
2. If your method of washing money requires you to forfeit the money or even risks your money not returning at all (if nobody buys your tiles). You're simply an idiot.
3. You need to fully understand what money laundering actually is before you make statements like that. If you can't hide the source of your income and if your income is decimated during the process you could just get a real job and pay taxes like everyone else.
There's already games like this, they're called Second Life and Entropia Universe. Plot twist! They're not very popular... yet they somehow stay alive through their incredibly niche player bases. They found a way to extort far fewer players for more cash than a larger game would with more players.
There is no game here, noone can answer is it fpv, third person? It's nothing. Second life is an actual game
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@@udednow idk what that means but I like it
back in the day, second life was big.
As someone who still plays SL (albeit briefly in bursts), I mainly play it because it’s easy to meet friends from other parts of the globe there. No, it’s most assuredly NOT perfect! There’s a predator problem that few folks really talk about, and until recently it heavily benefitted from Gatcha mechanics utilized by sellers (mainly artists who made/ stole assets for furniture and avatars, only really stopped because of laws that made it impossible to keep Gatcha on there because of how Lindens function and Linden Labs is too lazy to make an alternative in-game specific money), not to mention how a vast majority of adults (from personal experience) throw tantrums that can and DO end with someone’s SIM getting deleted. However, there are still gold nuggets among the utter dumpster fire, both of SIMs and people. I tend to stick to myself or friends I know outside it though.
I'm baffled to how this company hasn't been sued out of existence yet...
They have a shitload of disclaimers when you sign up and even on their public site beforehand. Probably more to the point: people hate to admit that they did something completely retarded and hold on to that one sliver of hope that people will buy their virtual dirt for a profit.
I guarantee there will be a class action.
Maybe cuz anyone with half a brain cell, buttload of money and balls to take someone to court has not YET invested into this scam besides plebs that will lose money and do nothing about it.
Because old people are still in the 70s... theyre to fucking slow to do ANYTHING
Man - this has lasted longer than the cancelled Earth 2 TV series.
Wait what
And that was a good TV series. Shame NBC (or whatever network) killed it and left us with a cliffhanger.
@@AstroNerdBoy I concur.
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AND the earth 2 comic title for DC rebirth
God these landscape shots are forever engraved into my soul
I mean you have to give them credit for bringing the insidious mobile gaming monetization to it's logical conclusion: You can buy tiles and jewels and collect ether and have all these currencies, without even having a game attached as windowdressing.
"The Greatest Continuing Scam I Have Ever Seen"
Tom Cruise: I would like to speak with you about Scientology.
That's a cult, much worse than a scam
@@dragons_red I'll have to agree to that.
@@dragons_red i mean, it's both. If you look at how people fooled by MLMs act, they're basically in a cult.
@@dragons_red Also tax free!
I can't wait to see how Arya Realty responds to this video in his typical defense mode
I get the idea behind this as the future of interactivity is likely a fully realized virtual world but even in Ready Player One it wasn’t just one virtual Earth.
It’s full of different universes, planets and zones. And when this full virtual world takes off what’s to stop another company say Microsoft from bypassing whatever Earth 2 is doing and selling server space for people to create their own worlds from the start and not having to spend thousands on tiles and resources?
Even if it’s very rough and glitchy, why can’t I go to a tile I purchased and walk around and start building? Even Earth 2 looks like Minecraft or knock off Lego World it’s something.
Never mind about Earth 2 - I want a video on how you managed to injure yourself putting up a basket ball hoop.
When I saw the notification for this video, I laughed out heartily.
Glad you’re feeling better!
Earth2 is the lolcow that keeps on giving milk.
and beef
We need more milk since Chris Chan is drying up 😔
That is what lolcows do, yes.
Another thing that happened recently in regards to advertising for Earth 2 was that they took reactions of Critikal ,and cut/paste them on top of Earth 2 promo footage to make it look like he endorses the product somehow.
I still don't even remotely understand why anyone would consider digital assets in a dead sandbox worth it to pay real money.
In the end all the value is dictated by what collectors value it, as it has no use/value in itself, but what kind of brainlet believes there are so many millions interested to invest money into collecting otherwise worthless digital assets?
Heck it's like offering to sell a high level account of an online MMORPG after it's servers have been shut down...
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yeah, I dont understand crypocurrencies either. who on earth pays for used clock cycles?
@@elLooto dont be a dummy.
@@rawrxd7870 Im serious; you are investing in used clock cycles, represented by electronic tokens. Not only that, but the supply of them is infinite.
@@elLooto and money is just paper and metal? don't be a dummy dude
Seems to me the guy in that first interview had it right: "It's just NFTs of a fake earth."
You gotta love the UA-camrs like Arya Reality and the Earth 2 Meta. It's bad enough that kid who (Tanner Rosankovic) scammed ppl on Steam (Civil Contract, Capital Gaming RP, also was underage when published it onto Steam. Then apparently he went to the Australian military,, and left soon after. Makes me think he lied about that too just to get ppl off his back) lied about a lawsuit, while the Earth 2 big guy didn't reassure anyone, nor punish him. Instead, he called ppl like Bigfry bullies. Defended him, etc. It was pathetic and disgusting. He wronged ppl and got defended. Just BC he was a kid at the time. Doesn't mean he didn't lie, threaten, false flagged, and broke the law.
Maybe Various Benson is Shane's son. That's why he didn't fire him lol.
@@roflBeck lol let's hope, BC the only alternative is he's grooming him, like how Dream World is grooming their kid mods...
@@roflBeck or he has a higher position in the earth 2 scam than we actually know. (Like he could be one of the owners given his record of scamming people)
So from selling the Broklyn bridge to selling plots on the moon and now finally selling none existing pieces of land.
Same scam, different framework.
I have been thinking of how one could make something similar, but better:
1. Different planet(s?) - Instead of earth, make a random generated world, mainly to avoid any copyrights. and if there's enough players, multiple worlds/servers could simply be different planets (and they might even be able to interact with each other, as if they were in the same solar system)
2. Resource focus - Instead of focusing on selling the land itself, you focus on what the land can produce, and the tiles of land that don't have any "direct" natural resources, can be turned into farmland or you can build something to refine the resources.
3. Ingame currency - Being able to earn ingame currency and use it to buy stuff, of course still have premium currency, but it should not focus on premium and real money.
4. World reactions - When you do something, it can result in an reaction in the game world, fx. a lot of factories are build in one area, the plantlife starts producing less, a lot of "work stations" is build within a certain distance/area, and a town starts forming.
5. AI controlled areas - An "AI player" should be able to control various tiles (mainly towns/cities and special tiles), all players can interact with them, but can't control them.
6. Supply and Demand - Towns/cities want and requires resources, materials and goods, to be maintained and grow, and the players earn money from it, but every town/city has an inventory and daily use, the more of something it already have and the less it uses of it, the cheaper it is and the less it will pay to buy it, this will make a "fluctuating market" system possible. ALSO events might happen, that changes the demand (fx. a health craze so the price of certain food items rise, while others fall, or a large building project, so building materials price rise. AND the area/world then react to how the event was met by the players, supply thhe building project enough and the city will grow an extra step)
It may sound boring to some, but I think a "huge world market game" would be possible with it.
Two sentences in, and you already put in more effort in gamedev than these dudes did
Well dam this is the scammiest scam that has ever scammed
Wow I literally just found your channel from watching your previous video on this. What perfect timing
Welcome! Top tier content over here
This will go down in history as the mother of all digital scams.
The real Earth 2 are the friends we -swindled- made along the way
But why did the tile with the Statue of Liberty cost so much? According to the devs, when the actual VR portion is implemented, the Statue won't be there. Nothing will be anywhere! It's a fresh start on Earth!
"Creating the Oasis from Ready Player One"... Wait, isn't Tim Swiney trying to do that already with Fortnite?
*looks at Martin Luther king event*
Yep
@@roboiago Next stop; the Anne Frank House!
We should really throw Fortnite and Earth2 into a pit....and shoot which title crawls out
And Facebook as well
As the old saying goes...."A sucker is born every minute."
this reminds me of that one guy selling property on mars and the moon and the actual morons who send him money for certificates.
You must construct additional pilons.
That will be $100 upfront please.
Thank you for covering this! Clicked as soon as I got the notification
I pre-ordered Fallout '76. These guys would have Todd Howard's photo on the wall in a frame to keep them focused.
Nothing better than getting a notification on the earth scam series! Instant click
My initial reaction upon seeing this was, "are you kidding me? I thought we were done with this one!" I mean seriously, nothing should surprise me anymore but how can there still be more to this story?!?
I wonder if a world where going back to middle ages would work. Like some guy named Jeff B buys a kingdom amount of land and then hires 12 "knights" to manage sections of that land, each "knight" then hires X number of people to farm and mine that land. Maybe be called up to fight to protect that land, or if they hate their situation they wont and take the chance with the new ruler.
Glad that you help exposing this scam.
Truly it's an utter embarrassment that these people really believe this could make the money. A fool and their money is soon parted!
I wonder if AryaRealty will react to this too, then Kira covers his reaction again. That would be even more quality content
Season 2 of this anime is looking promising. But when are we gonna get Earth3?
after earth 1.11
If Earth2 is so go why don't they make Earth3?
But Earth 2 will be like One Piece, at least 1000 episodes
It’s not going to work, that’s why they do first the extras and then the essentials, to gain time and expand their marketing.
I was really surprised by the gordian quest bit: I saw it on steam a litfle while back, looked genuinely fun and solid, had good reviews, picked it up on a sale, and it's on my to-do list with a few other games I got around the same time. Reviews are generally happy and seem sincere, I had no idea it was tied to some ...yeah... "company" because it appears genuinely solid. So that's bizarre.
Earth2 is less of a game than Kantai Collection, and KanColle is mechanically nothing more than a spreadsheet and a dice roller.
Yeah, but waifus tho
Were not dealing with idiots...were watching geniuses scam themselves into a corner of legal implications. I cant wait until this boils over and catches fire. Lets continue to watch!
I remember reading articles about big companies buying virtual land and building virtual business in Second Life - that was like 10+ years ago, these ideas about virtual ownership is by no means a new phenomenon, but it is interesting to see how well these virtual lands can establish themselves on markets who (to my knowledge) are not ready nor showing much interest, besides potential monetary gains that depend on massive success.
This sounds a lot like Premium ships in world of warships except for the trading, but that's probably on the way.
You can play with your premium ships, there's actual gameplay and you can have fun
@@Cat_in_The-Box true but it's the whole money generating focus that relates to this video. It wouldn't surprise me if wargaming is actively nerfing ships during battle as well as matchmaking to manipulate who is on the winning team. Free to play but pay to win.
@@Cat_in_The-Box ask yourself why wargaming keeps releasing premium ships and more importantly why people continue to buy them. There has to be some incentive because people don't generally give money away for nothing. Jingles put out a video recently describing how world of tanks will top tier premium tanks for the first 20 battles - basically seal clubbing lower tier tanks. This looks a lot like pay to win but the real problem is wargamings focus on money and how they can manipulate battles to reward whales by putting things in the game players don't want like CV and subs instead of improving the game with new maps.
"Unbelievable! Just unbelievable!"
oh hey Rowan, didn't expect to see you here
My first thought was money-laundering.
"Hey, buy my E2 lot #257 and you get illegal product XYZ"
I'll comment for the algorithm, glad to expose a scam
*notification*
new UEG vid...
*interest piqued*
new earth 2 vid
*drops everything, grabs popcorn, gets comfy*
This is starting to sound a lot like how certain games on Facebook played. Time wasters, that gives a false sense of accomplishment for literally spending more time on the game as well logging in daily.
Ah shit, here we go again
Gets injured putting a basketball hoop up? Earth 2 is trying to kill him.
I theorize that this is to both scam people out of their money and to lay the groundwork for patent trolling in the future when legitimate approaches of this so-called metaverse concept appear.
"Pointless under the best of circumstances" is one hell of a quote
Thank you for keeping on trucking. :)
3:23-3:29 I feel like you channeled Mauler from evap, made me laugh, =) keep in doing your thing man !
Time to contact the ftc, this scam has gone on long enough
They even turned on two autorization and i have not acepted that. I cant log into my account at Earth 2.0
anymore.
Vicarious PR appears to be run out of a house in a suburban neighborhood. It's less than a mile from my house. That's sounds totally legit.
Hope you're feeling better mate, great to have you back.
Can't spell Earth 2 without EA, and that's probably where they got their business model from.
We also can't forget that outside the video of the buggies jumping around there's no dev update showing work on any part of the world.
The Earth 2 footage was so advanced, that the video has me locked at 240p.
Saw the notification
Immediately grabbed snacks 🍿
I love your indepth investigation and analysis. you deserve more subscribers
I found the info about the pr company an interesting additional bit. Good content. Keep it up plz
In another week or so there will be the scooby gang and they will find the criminal and take off their scary mask only to find UEG under the mask.
Oh I'd enjoy that plot twist....
This is surreal. It is absolutely the most bizarre, yet blatant scam I have ever seen.
From my point of view, Earth 1 was a scam too. Definitely not a paradise.
We screwed up when we bought the third party DLC.
it’s definitely pay to win
@@tech1238 you mean EA’s version of F2P?
Underrated!
This is akin to buying a star for somebody and getting a skymap to prove it.
That was the most random intro I've heard in awhile. I'm thinking, if an investigative journalist was ever hurt, it would be by some thug because he got too close to uncovering the truth... but no, no, no. He was hurt setting up a basketball hoop.
Earth 2 is like a troll gift. You know, the ones you wrap in many many beautiful hulls when there's a pile of dogshit in the middle for a friend to open.
I'm absolutely hyped to see what comes out of this one. I'm inclined to say it's dogshit, but it could also be the insides of my cat litter box.
I'm absolutely entertained by what this is becoming.
I really love the idea of Earth 2 merchandise, especially when you know where it's coming from
Programs like Earth 2 will never be like The Oasis. Not because it couldn't be made, but because The Oasis was made with pure fun in mind. Games in general are now made with profit in mind first and fun second. If a game like The Oasis was actually made right now it wouldn't be anything like the Ready Player One version because the developer/publisher space is too corrupt. That's why I've taken a step back from newer games and have been playing games from the PS2 that I genuinely love. Because you can tell they were made with fun in mind.
@@zuzoscorner It is unrealistic, but not because it couldn't be done. It's because the devs and publishers refuse to do it. They definitely have the money for developing it too, they just don't want to spend it on actual gaming innovation like that. Players settling for less isn't helping either but it's definitely more on the industry.
Man I can't believe thats still going on. Thats some giga scam buyers remorse level stuff. poor people getting suckered into it thinking it would be the next "thing".
So, why should I want to "own" a piece of a virtual, digital earth more than a piece of a globe on my desk?
That face when you look up the Creator of Earth 2's last name and you think "why am i right every time?"
It sounds like Second life is more of a ready player one then this scam lol.
The more they add to this, the more smooth-brained it is.
There is a new phone application selling real estate in a game and it's pretty similar to this
I wanna know more about this injury.
It’s like a giant commercial for map box tech lol
"Let's check notifications . Hmm, add to watch later, add to watch later. Oh, Earth 2 video by UEG, that's gonna be a play now."
This is a perfect example of the sunk cost fallacy. These player/invester's might as well burn their money.
"The sunk cost fallacy occurs because our emotions often cause us to deviate from rational decisions. Abandoning an endeavor after committing to it and investing resources into it is likely to cause negative feelings of guilt and wastefulness."
Happy to see that you're recovering from your accident. Great video too!
Ayooo been waiting for this
Im just happy you're not as injured as you could've been.
Glad to see you're up and about already UE!
Lmao the fact you have Earth2 merch is one of the funniest thing's i've heard all day.
i bought your earth 2 merch when it launched, its my favorite shirt, no bs
Imagine buying up Dubai on Earth 2 with real money but not getting any real oil...
There's literally more satisfaction in being a sugar mommy/daddy and watching your bank account drain than "investing" in this garbage. At least you can pretend you have game.
Praying for a quick and full recovery.
God bless.
God speed.
God save the Republic!
Should’a titled this “Earth 2, Electric Boogaloo.”
Kinda surprised you haven't done a video on that new "Saints Row" game as they like to call it
Maybe it's not his thing? Plus isn't that what's it's called?
It's a riff on how they're ruining the saints row series with the new game
Whats wrong with the new saints row?
@@Alphalbatross Trying to go "woke" and blind community outreach pissing off series fans.
@@Cowboycomando54 can I have an article on that?