My first playthrough of Earth Eternal two years ago was rather similar to Gir from Invader Zim watching television, in that I spent most of my first few hours going from character to character thinking to myself “this is the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen…no, this is the most adorable…” I laughed, I cried (scorching my mouth with hot food), I got quickly bored and returned to whatever game I was playing at the time (probably World of Warcraft). Earth Eternal was charming, it had adorable characters and a great art style, but the game itself was boring. The entirety of the game’s content ran down to accept quest, kill creatures, turn in quest. No crafting, and enemies rather rarely dropped any loot at all so even the monotonous task of vendoring became almost wishful thinking. It was almost as if someone sat down and decided to base an entire MMO on the first ten minutes of World of Warcraft.
Where Earth Eternal would be loved by the free to play crowd was in the fact that the cash shop was virtually nonexistent. In fact, during the game’s initial run many of the people I’d talked to responded that they were not even aware of a cash shop until Sparkplay made everything free prior to the game shutting down. And as you know, Earth Eternal recently came back up under a new company and is in open beta.
Unfortunately, the new owner has placed about as much hope in the project, as news down the grapevine reveals that development had ceased for the time being on Earth Eternal, as the developers have been pulled to other projects. The game will stay online, for how long is up for speculation, and the cash shop has not been implemented. Luckily, no one has been fired or laid off, just moved to other projects.
Earth Eternal is a charming game, but suffers from lack of direction and shallow game mechanics. It might be a way to pass the time, but when push comes to shove and the fingers start reaching for one’s pocketbook, you start to see people turning away and finding higher quality products to invest their money into. Earth Eternal is a great novelty, but novelty doesn’t pay the bills, and clearly neither does Earth Eternal.
MMO Fallout 
It’s now officially closing as of November 24th, 2011. RIP Earth Eternal.