Warning again.All the positive posts in this thread come from the person behind this and signature bounty hunters. They are ONLY interested that people pay into the ICO pot so they get more out of it from the campaign (80% of 5% of the total ICO).
This old, featureless game doesn't have millions of players (more like thousands), is never mentioned anywhere and is outclassed by it's competitors tenfold in every way. (DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH and use your brain!)
There are many reliable ways to conclude that the numbers are bogus.
For example, Twitch watch time for the last 365 days:
Shadow Era: 27 days, 12 hoursShadowverse (This is also an online card game, same genre, the similar name is irrelevant) that recently officially celebrated their 10 millionth download:
908 years, 56 daysJust for giggles,
Hearthstone: 51,962 years, 261 days
This should put into perspective how dead Shadow era is.
https://sullygnome.com/game/Shadowverse/365https://sullygnome.com/game/Shadow_Era/365
The purpose of this ICO is not to raise funds for development but as a way for the owner to get more money with the claim that he wants to "sell it off to the community."
He named 7 members (gamers) of the games forum "board of directors". They are supposed to hire people.
I can't imagine how this is supposed to work as there is no office, existing employees or know how to do that in a legal fashion.
This is not the first but the 4th "crowdfunding" endeavour of this person. Contrary to what he claims to be successful crowdfundings they were in many ways disasters and scams. Especially the Kickstarter. Over 90k canadian dollars vanished, not used for the promises and the temporary company set up for this closed.
The person behind this makes a living with empty promises. Most members of the community simply gave up over the years but there are still loyal fans and new players.
It is no coincidence that an update (buggy, insulting copy paste solo missions that have been done by a forum member long ago, which the community has been promised for MANY years, devoid of ANY artistic or entertainment value, worse than anything you would expect from a web based game 10 years ago) was released alongside the ICO just hours ago:
"I am focusing on the single player campaigns next week and hope to have that out first, to boost confidence in the game
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This is what real players of this game post on his forum:
morbius:
"Cryptos are immensely popular lately in my country of origin, as electricity for mining is cheap and a lot of people are unemployed or with small wages. There is going to be a lot of crying when the current bubble bursts.
And the bubble is currently rising mostly because of ICOs, despite the fact that over half of them are complete scams, with most others being dishonest or misleading in some major way. And why wouldn't they be, tokens are not shares, you can't sue NAME REMOVED for misleading you into buying them.
So, what's going on here? Well, without insight into earnings and expenditures I can't say anything for sure, but if I was a betting man, I'd wager that NAME REMOVED is looking for a payday from his dying game, with also a cut for the developers involved. Shadow Era is most likely doomed afterwards, as probably there won't be enough income to keep the development going, so players would slowly leave until there is no income to keep the servers up.
Why did the game fail is hard to say. Leading cause of businesses failing has always been poor management and with long string of broken promises and clearly lazy development, there are reasons to look in that direction. However, we shouldn't disregards very generous F2P system this game uses (which brought me to it in the first place) and current over-saturation of digital TCG market.
Though everything is not necessarily gloom and doom, with some angel investors the game could turn the corner, drop the bad decisions of the past and rise anew. I wouldn't bet on that scenario, though."
Anson Darkeblade:
"I've been a part of SE for quite a while. CotC wasn't even finished or fully released when I started. I've brought friends into this game, and even though it's fallen by the wayside for me after the lack of updates, I was excited about new content and new leadership to hopefully revive a game I enjoyed for several years. I may not be the most active member gameplay-wise or forum-wise, but I can't not speak my mind when people's money is on the line.
Let me tell you one thing, one businessman to another: If you claim to not know how much your business is earning, or how much of that income is "verifiable", you sound more like a swindler than a professional. This isn't The Wolf of Wall Street, NAME REMOVED. Maybe the numbers don't add up, maybe they're not as high as a potential investor would like, but to deliberately obscure, or have the facts obscured from you so you can claim ignorance, is immensely unethical and should leave a bad taste in the mouths of anyone considering investing.
I want to be wrong so that a good game in the glut of digital TCGs can survive and thrive, and in time we'll see if I am or not."
crispy131313:
Most investors would ask to see historical financial statements before investing a dollar. This is how the world works.
If you want more detailed information look at my post history.
