Hi all. I think it's time some things got cleared up, especially about who the dev team actually are, what we're doing and the future of the SHDW token.
But, before I do that, I should introduce myself. I'm the "forum user" that "shadowtoken" frequently likes to refer to in a very libellous way, mostly by copy-pasting the same unsubstantiated untruths over and over. (I don't know how you do your research, buddy, but it's incredibly flawed. Do you actually believe the lies you are saying about me???)
OK, onto the important stuff now. Here is some information for Token Holders to clear up some of the confusion mostly created by this "shadowtoken" forum user being able to run wild with garbage.
1) The ShadowEra user here is the original owner of the game. He created the SHDW token to be able to sell off his game as his exit strategy after 6 years of ownership, but in such a way that the game could continue and actually flourish. How is that going so far? We'll get to that in a minute.
2) The Board of Directors are indeed all "forum users" (as "shadowtoken" likes to refer to us), but then so is everyone here. I don't know why that could even be portrayed as a bad thing. We are all real people, as shown by the Whitepaper, bringing different things to the table. It's not like we are anonymous people hiding behind a forum name to post untruths to serve an unknown agenda! That would be pretty terrible, don't you think? That kind of behaviour should probably just be ignored or blocked with a ban, I reckon ...
3) Since the Board of Directors was formed on August 1st, I've been making Chairman's Update posts on our official forum, on behalf of the Board of Directors as a whole, which also get converted into articles that you can see on the front page of shadowera.com. They represent a very clear summary of what we've achieved so far and where we are going. I am guessing most people here have not seen them or you would not be referring to SHDW as a dead coin and dead project. Lots has been happening!
4) There are no profits to be shared at the moment because we are investing our income in development to get the game back on track. When we took over, no new cards or balance changes had hit since March, making it a total of eight months so far that the game stayed exactly the same in terms of cards available to play with. There were 28 cards coded and ready for release, but they had no art, so we have been paying for that so we can release them finally. (Some of that art has been shared in our Chairman's Updates.)
5) Since the 28 cards mentioned above are part of a 67-card set, which we have announced as due for release in Q1 2018, we decided it was worth bringing out some new cards as part of our Campaign set ASAP, which have been announced and released for public play-testing over the course of the last week. Feedback from players on our forum and Facebook has been very positive. By improving the overall sentiment of the game, we will see activity and income rise further, and then it will be the right time to start investing in marketing.
Hopefully that helps to show this is not a dead project or dead coin. I have currently 9% of the tokens and intend to make them worth a lot of money. But, more importantly, I want Shadow Era to live up to its full potential and become the huge game it should be. We are on a very good trajectory for achieving that right now!
In terms of future communication, I do not intend to post here again. I just wanted to let you know there are official places for information (as covered above) and that you can contact us on the Board of Directors at any time. Personally speaking, I try to make myself very very accessible on our forum (both in public posts and private messages), in our game chat lobby and private messaging, in our group chats on Telegram, via the Facebook page (Shadow Era Official) and by email.
For those of you still holding tokens who are watching this thread, it would be really good if you could quote this post to respond to anyone looking for information.
Many thanks for reading all this and best wishes to you all.
I really wanted to stick to my intention of not posting here again, but I think a lot of people must have missed my post above, so I'm quoting it for those that might need some pointers about where to get information.
We have been doing plenty of updates on the official forum and Facebook and in our telegram channels.
This thread on bitcointalk is not where you should be seeking your ONLY information.
For example, it appears as though no one here is aware that there are 67 new cards due for release in Lost Lands Part 2 in March 2018 (or that 13 new ones came out in November). We've been posting spoilers of LLP2 cards on our official forum, Facebook and Twitter. Almost all these cards have had art specifically commissioned for them (unless we had some appropriate artwork already licensed) and they are looking fantastic. But don't take my word for it, check them out for yourself:
http://www.shadowera.com/showthread.php?40157-New-Lost-Lands-Part-2-Spoilers!
I can't believe people are calling this a dead coin, when there is actually some monetary value behind the coin in the form of all the IP (characters, artwork, code, lore, card design, etc.) and physical card stock. It's because of this that SHDW has acted as a safe haven during this period of crypto volatility: the USD value of SHDW has stayed roughly at $0.05 since the ICO. Anyone with about 2000 SHDW has also benefitted from having all their cards auto-foiled within the game as well, and anyone with $15 worth of SHDW gets a daily ShadowCrystal log-in bonus that can be accumulated and spent on the new cards when they come out in March (or the new Campaign cards we already brought out in November).
OK, that's enough from me. Hopefully, I don't have to post here again, but I will come back if there are more posts of people claiming there's no news or development happening.
Best wishes to you all!
