Aftertime Diaries - Dreamers or Scammers

You probably haven’t heard about that RCE game – Aftertime Diaries. Their site starts with the line “AfterTime Diaries is a futuristic real-cash economy MMORPG that will toward the end of 2013.” Seems like they missed something there. They want to say game will launch at the end of 2013, but on other page they say only alpha version will come in 2013 and if lucky may be beta version. And that they are developing the game from one year now. That makes possible release date in 2015-2016. I don’t want to be negative, but there are some things that bother me about this game. So far I can’t find what company or people are behind it. There is no page on Wikipedia about the game to get more information. There are no videos yet, just some pictures in their website. I don’t even know what game engine they use.

Looks like they are planning to have alpha and beta phases for indefinitely long time with the catch that while the game will be free after that long period of time you have to pay to play the unfinished game. And to make sure people will deposit big amount of money for the unfinished game from unknown company, they will offer shares from day one. This actually isn’t day one it is day “minus 2000”. You can feel that they got a lot of ideas from Entropia Universe, but Entropia Universe started offering shares 10 years the release date, when it was clear there are enough depositors and the game will survive giving ¼ of its profit to the players.

It is very clear that the concept of the game is the concept of Entropia Universe plus some ideas that some players think will be good if implemented in Entropia Universe, but probably will be disaster. There will be the three main professions from Entropia Universe – Hunting, Mining and Crafting. They also plan to have farming – collect resources from plants and animals you grow on land you rented and even hire other players to work for you. While it sound good at first I don’t see it happening in RCE game. You will also be able to rent different buildings like energy centrals for a week, month or more, hire other players and make money. Also good as idea, but don’t think it will work. There will also be trading and auction system just like in Entropia Universe. So many similarities with Entropia Universe, even the pictures remind me of Entropia Universe. The exchange rate won’t be 1 USD for 10 PED it will be 1 USD for 100 After Time Dollars.

On top of everything when you create your avatar they promise you will get free website, TV channel and web radio and get 50% of the profit they make. Profit will be zero, but even if there is any profit I’m not sure they can implement that.

I agree that talented people must get paid for the hard work they put on a project, but from what I can see so far about this game the team is too optimistic delusional dreamers on some good mushrooms or they are trying to trick a lot of people to get their money for some promises for profit. I will keep an eye on that game, but I doubt it will ever go out of alpha status. They may not even release playable game at all.