Steven is the creative director, and his husband is the purse strings. if the game is fully funded from the start, then why do you need to sell cosmetics? Remember there is no refunds on cosmetics after 90 days. Noone knows what they are or what they go on? What if Steven does a Brad? How are you going to get your money back? You are putting your faith into someone's marketing campaign from inside the game. People are being dimed and nickled every month and the FOMO concept is always present. This practice is so predatory.
What are you going to do if Steven takes the money with his husband, and they leave together? And sell their interest off to another company like 10 Cent or the MLM Mafia? It has been a huge financial burden on them for years. Remember all records are public in California.
On the other hand, I know Joppa would never think of something like it.
I am not Gigabear. But he has raised some interesting issues on the unofficial AOC discord forums about the financial status. Apparently, Steven has had some dealing with the MLM mafia out of Vegas. He could not afford to keep Michael Bacon, so Michael went to AGS. Over the last year, he has lost a lot of key people to other ventures. I know it happens. But it is not a good sign.
I won't play Ashes it's not my style of game nothing but an Archeage clone. The discord is a very toxic place. Some of the PI people like to run over players. This is one thing that bothers me about these kick starters. You can start out as a positive player but if certain players don't like you, it doesn't matter how much you spend. Then, you say something and then they try to get rid of you, taking tour money in the process. Roshen specially told me he doesn't like me because of Liz Woolley in discord one night. 90% of the staff is former Daybreak or Soe employees. Steven should have not made Giga mad. However, Giga took his revenge a little too far. Steven got doxed. Jahlon made a 95 pg. PowerPoint on Giga. All of the people involved were wrong. I have listened to all sides, and everyone needs to chill out. Steven has more money. So, he has the loudest voice in the room. The gaming industry is a very cutthroat business and people hold grudges. Kind of bullshit.
I heard Roshen is running a special on embers, 2 for $20. He has thousands of them in stock right now. Hurry Hurry.
Any game company that shows you art before the network is a scam company. Look at COE for the perfect example. The art has to match the network.
The AOC Alpha one stream was a networking mess. Combat mechanics looked decent, but you have Throne and Liberty coming down the pipe to fuck Steven up if Riot doesn't do it first. Steven has a little money but not a level of an Amazon or Riot.
Steven got banned from Archeage because his guild was doing all the RMT on the server. He tried to bribe the Gms 10 k into letting him come back but they refused. So, he started his own RMT company. How do you expect someone who claims they won't RMT or P2W when they were busted for RMT in other games for the same thing? All of these gaming company plan to boil frogs in the future.
When you put your business out in public or tell someone a secret then it's not a secret anymore.
I like Steven even though his staff layoffs from a previous Daybreak release years ago.
It takes at least 30 million dollars to license your game in Europe for the first year and then people can get a refund at any time. Three words for you. My dot com. Lol.
