RE: SteemMonsters is a scam and we need to be talking about this.
Man, it's about a year and a half since I've been accused of scamming people, which was when I started the Minnow Support Project. And look how that turned out. People ruined by my actions... every single day by 800 free votes using 120k Sp bot. I'm so ashamaed.
Or also of the curation group I run, and the way I scam the chain by having a group of people manually curate good content with msp-curation or good people with msp-active. Or how I built an open source broadcast network called msp-waves and upvote the djs selfishly. My record on the chain is in dire need of a put-me-down. Thankfully you're here.
We've had about 70k games played in 4 days. I don't think that people find it a worthless steeming pile of shit as described. Most people describe teh game as highly addictive because they understand it and it's a shit ton of fun even in the very first stages.
What I think you're encountering is that the game is 5 days old and not every aspect of what we envision has been put in place yet because it takes time. I doubt that people feel like their alpha versions of Magic cards are useless and terrible because the game hadn't been as fully developed at that point. Personally, I think people will value these alpha and beta cards more than they did their magic cards.
Over the next two months we'll be releasing tournaments that are perodically level capped so players without much stake have a chance to earn. We'll be introducing daily rewards, and we'll add more variability and chance for interaction along the way. There are a handful of decent criticisms in your endless rant here, but mostly it's just asinine and impatience.
I think your readers will be disappointed a year from now when the cards have substantially increased in value because of the design of the combining features that decrease supply over time as more players are added. I know players who have already seen their cards increase in value by 50%. That's one of the best returns anywhere in crypto right now.
Personally I think you've done your readers a disservice by turning them off of a promising project at an early stage.
Anyway, best of luck on Steem, I'm sure how you approach and review new projects on the network will provide you tons of support and fans.
I think you will eventually create new and new cards. New game cards will always be slightly stronger than old cards. This is very noticeable if you do not go into the game for several months. Because of this, old cards will always depreciate and weaken before new ones. Tell me I'm wrong.
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That was a very diplomatic and even toned response to my vitriolic hit piece. You have my respect for that.
I sincerely hope you are right and I am proven wrong in the end. Scam isn’t the right word I should have used. I don’t think there is any malicious intent to defraud people, but there is a dangerous amount of hype inflating the perceived value of thes cards, which is certainly being encouraged. That hype is the driving force behind the game’s popularity. Magic the gathering was a solid game first, and became collectible much later after it had been an established institution. SteemMonsters boasted the value and collectibility before it was even a game. That should concern people. Any time I see something at the store with “collectors item!” Pasted on it I am skeptical. My concern is that by putting the hype before developing a more polished product you have created a bubble that will pop before you have the chance to make SteemMonsters the game it should be. If that happens, a lot of people are going to lose money.
Aside from calling the game a scam, most of your criticisms are spot-on. It was developed by two guys in their spare time over a few months. We were abundantly clear that the fighting would be automated from the very beginning, so if anyone is surprised by that, that's on them.
We are definitely taking advantage of the general hype around anything crypto/blockchain-related to raise money to do something that we would likely never have had the chance to do otherwise.
The game is poor at best right now, overly confusing, lacks any sort of help or tutorial for new players, and has no way to move up other than buying cards. We get that. The "bet", by those who have invested, is that it will improve in the future, dramatically.
Will it? I don't know. That's for each person to decide. All I can do is promise to do everything I can to make it happen.
I hope the development can catch up to the hype before people start getting burned out on the gameplay. You are obviously aware of the issues the game has. It seems like y’all got swept up in the excitement and put out the game before you should have.
Gamers are excitable but they are fickle and lose interest quickly, especially casual gamers. This is compounded by Steem being such a small community with new users not pouring in, and even then they take a while to build steem to invest or even fully understand the platform. You have a short window to make this game what it needs to be to be sustainable. MySpace was a global juggernaut one day, and forgotten the next.
On a side note, y’all seem like sincere guys so please don’t take my shit talking personally. I stand behind the points I made, but the bombastic vulgarity is just kind of my schtick.
Like I told aggro; I hope I’m wrong.
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