Why we are Leaving Steem!

in #drugwars6 years ago (edited)

Ciao DrugLords,

In the past 24hours we have read many complaints and some false assumptions coming from some players, we are totally conscious that our last decision was a little shock for the drugwars community. So this announcement will help you to see clearer about what we want to achieve and why we choose to take this decision.

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Are we leaving Steem?

Hell no! WE ARE STEEM, all of our plans for the coming years are based on Steem. We suggest you to read this post : https://steemit.com/future/@futureshock/futureshock-leading-the-way-for-world-innovators-revolution-leaders-life-entrepreneurs

But I dont get it, you said you will use FUTURE?

Using another token does not mean using another blockchain. For your information, Steem is a blockchain, and STEEM is a token like SBD is. FUTURE is also a token and will work in complementary to the Steem Blockchain. It is also the first step of our cross blockchain implementation and a collaboration to bring more awareness around Steem.

Why your own token?

This is probably the first question that came to your mind. And even if the answer is not so simple, we will try to explain what happened.
We have now one of the most played game over crypto. We are getting contacted by many people including investors and also trying to reach them if it's relevant for the good of the game. Beside that, the distribution and the size of Steem can scare most of investors, while the FUTURE token can give them more guarantee with a transparent and fair distribution.

Do we need investors?

There is no doubt that we need investors to be able to develop the game in good circumstance and make it great.We would like to have a better designer in the team, some 2d-3d illustrators, more developers to go faster and deliver more beautiful features to the players, and as we said we really want to make the interblockchain wars too.
But we let you calculate the gain made by drugwars and tell us if you can achieve all of this without investors. If you can do it, don't hesitate to DM @hightouch in discord maybe you can have a role in the team, who knows :)

So it's only about money?

Not at all, the token FUTURE is on a solid blockchain which is already in collaboration with Steem and which offer us different possibilities to complete the missing features of Steem to make DrugWars even more accessible and powerful. More informations about it are coming soon!

Are FUTURE tokens on a dirty blockchain?

Definitely not, most of steemians have probably already used the blockchain where FUTURE tokens are.

You guys took my money!

We didn't took your money, you decided to pay to go faster to obtain rewards or to be able to destroy some people that you hate. But do we want to take off with the money that you have spent ingame and which constitute your rewards? If yes it would be better for us to make it when the pool was at 120k+ STEEM no? Are we are bad scammers ? Probably...
That's also why we run Fundition without any fees and distribute daily STEEM to Steemians for months now, when many other dapps are now like abandonware and still cut off 10-15% fees on your rewards!
We are definitely bad scammers!

Why are you pumping your own token with Steem?

We tracked the lowering of the pool as many players did, and this decision is by far the best for the players and also for drugwars. While 90% of our players are in positive (try to find that somewhere else and I send you some chocolate) some early players and some new ones will have problems to get back their investment. With a fair airdrop depending of the Steem spent ingame and the time past on the game nobody should see any difference.

So I can get my money back or not?

Few days after the release you will be able to cashout your FUTURE as Steem and leave the game if it doesn't satisfy you anymore, this guarantee you to get at least what you would won if we continued to use STEEM as token for the rewards.
We also invite all amateurs investors to cashout their FUTURE at the launch for their own good.

Wait it's not a ponzi scheme and you are not scamming me?

Obviously drugwars was always the opposite of a ponzi scheme, some people compared it to robin hood and that's exactly how it was designed, a free to play game, and a play to win, even if the bots made by some "visible complainers" stole a part of the rewards from players, remember the number of positive accounts and try to find a common point with a ponzi. For people who threat us of scammer, we would tend to say that your *** are scammers. But politicly it would not be correct.

For people who are simply worried about the money they have spent in game, they should know that the amount of FUTURE airdropped and dedicated to the pool will correspond at least to the amount which is now in the pool. So no reason to be worried about the value that you will get back with FUTURE.

You are taking too much beneficiary fees on post!

This is something that we recognize and nobody should lost SP or STEEM while sharing a post with drugwars. In that way we are making some big changes which should satisfy everyone. Be expected to get the news in the coming 24 hours.

And dont forget all is fair and love in DrugWars!

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Need more information about the token. SMT, Steem Engine (LOL someone already registered future) - or your own sidechain?

What is the supply? How are they minted?

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If it's not on Steem Engine, I wonder who sent me Future tokens for some reason on there. Actually, even if it is, I kinda wonder why they sent me some. Could be someone registered the token after their post and sent me some and others some as a joke.

Could be someone registered the token after their post and sent me some and others some as a joke.

Yup.

Could be someone registered the token after their post and sent me some and others some as a joke.

Yeah, @beggars did it, lol!

Yeah, I should have taken the 5 seconds to check.

It is difficult for me to grasp the thinking behind your posts, and the ongoing errant developments in the game. Trying to understand what might motivate the creation of the FUTURE token at this point in the game's evolution from basic principles doesn't indicate any potentially positive intentions or outcomes.

Criticisms of the writing quality of your posts aren't without validity either. You can clearly afford the cost of a competent writer, and that you do not implies one of two things: you're so arrogant you fail to grasp the negative impact of these flaws, or you're so greedy you aren't willing to pay anyone any money you might get yourself.

You might as well have named your new token FUCKUALL, as that seems to be the actual spirit behind this post, the token's creation and application, and recent changes in gameplay.

I have consistently tried to provide sound advice and good reasons to not take this path. I have not been heeded, and the current situation is the result. I have not been alone, and far wiser and better gamers have been just as ignored.

My worst offense taken by these recent events is not how they will impact DW. It's just a game, and has proved that dapps that can leverage Steem, as Steemit did for blogs, are going to fill a void that can be highly profitable. It's that linking this disappointing situation to Futureshock is going to taint that incubator with these poor decisions, and may existentially harm it, as well as Fundition.io itself.

No matter what you think of DW's future potential, it is critically important to you, DW, and the community affected that you recognize how you have horribly failed to consider your communities interests by making so many cryptic, unannounced changes, and particularly this transition to an entirely different token and economic structure. The paucity of flags on this post surprises me. You deserve much more censure than you are receiving. I think the lack of it may reflect that so many have just given up already, and no longer bother to even flag.

It's a shame that you have destroyed so much goodwill and potential beneficial interest by undertaking actions that practically seem intended to do exactly that. How can you fail to grasp that creating incentive for people to spam posts for meager upvotes will be regarded poorly? How did you not know that constantly changing gameplay without annotation or announcement would anger players? How in the hell did you fail to realize the shitstorm you would launch by dramatically changing the economic structure of the game - and particularly by abandoning Steem as the underlying currency of the game for an entirely separate blockchain - would result in the current loss of goodwill and participation of players in the game?

These are breathtakingly stupid mistakes, and they seem to keep getting worse and worse.

You guys are going to bear the marks of these decisions as long as you maintain your accounts on Steem. I highly recommend you take the lessons you are learning to heart, and keep those accounts active, because you will gain respect by that contrition, as well as self awareness that seems to elude you at present.

I wish you the best of luck, and luck appears to be what you can count on, as wisdom doesn't appear to be in your corner presently.

The only reason more than half of us joined was because it was a Steem game. It they want to create their own tokens why not use Steem-Engine to keep it on Steem. In the Discord one of the guys from DrugWars team had asked if we had already bought some Future tokens. What does that mean? Is the token already on an exchange? Why don’t we have any information on the tokens yet if people could already buy some. When he had said that I went to Steem-Engine to look and saw a Future token and thought it was them til they released a statement next morning saying it wasn’t them on the Discord announcements.

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My understanding is that yes, the token is already available for sale, and it's an Obytes toke, per @edicted's last post on the matter. A lot of folks jumped on board because this was a Steem dapp. Now that it's not, well, jumping ship is how they got here to begin with.

We'll see how things go, but IMHO, it's not going well.

That's also why we run Fundition...

Yeah, that’s also part of the problem here. Seems to me that you’re just another group of hobbyist coders and social half-wits that managed to finagle some delegation and are simply rewarding yourselves and your friends through other “project development.”

Gee...how many times have we seen that happen around here? In a few more months, Drug Wars will probably be a dead project and Fundition will just be voting on posts authored by the various team members.

Oh, wait...?

Or...

Maybe I’m actually from the future.

I mean can we blame them. Steem has had over a year and millions in funds to create SMT and still we have nothing. If u should be mad at anyone it should be the CEO of steemit who has broken so many promises and cashed out millions.

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How come since drugwars started it is as if somehow there is only the Steem Blockchain existing in the crypto space, and as if the crypto world hadn't had this exact game mechanics already before on Ethereum, EOS and lastly on the Tron Blockchain with the game that is still running, TronGoo..

I feel that we will end up with all the shitty dapps, and most being not so fair and honest, we are like atleast 6 months behind the other top chains and I guess we will receive the worst :(

Given the numerous upset responses, I wouldn't be surprised if you ignored my comment. So merely replying would already show me that you are in fact a dev team who cares about their users (which deep inside I still believe you are).
I understand that change is the only constant thing, especially in a blockchain game that's still on beta. But just like how you announced the opening of battles a week ahead of time, it would have been nice to let us know about implementing the future token. It could have saved us all a lot of frustration.
No point in crying over spilled milk, though. It's still not too late to give us detailed information about this FUTURE token. What is it / will it be good for? Can we spend it in the game to buy upgrades or troops? Is it being traded already? If so where? In your post you also mention: "We also invite all amateurs investors to cashout their FUTURE at the launch for their own good." Why do you say that?
As far as the English of the post... I tend to agree with many angry voices who complain about it. It's not entirely incomprehensible, but a bit frustrating for sure. The same goes for the game as well, btw, which also reduces your professional appearance. If you want, I could do the proofreading for you. You could even pay me in FUTURE tokens, especially if they deem usable in the game. :-)

What blockchain will your FUTURE tokens be on and why not Steem-Engine tokens?

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I'm not going to contribute to the discussion, @hightouch. I said what I had to say last week. It seems like you didn't only piss me off this time.

Some good advice: it would really be a good idea to not ignore all the comments on this post. People are asking for clarification. Who can blame them?

If you really want to do good for the community, like you say, I think it's important to give them that clarification. Dropping a post like this and then disappearing from the radar... you just can't do that.
You claim to be a good guy... then show them you are and start replying. And I don't mean you should start calling people names. If you have a clear vision, please share it with all these people that have loads of questions that have remained unanswered for more 15 hours.

Understand their frustration, and acknowledge they have the right to know more than just the vague info that is given in the post.

24 hours since you dropped the bomb, and still radio-silence... This isn't helping your case. What has happened to good, ol' customer service??

Self-voted, I still have the idle hope you will see this and care about your customers...

@drugwars,
When I see the mechanism that you guys brought ingame I feel this might be a smart way of run a PONZI SCHEME! Yeah I mean it, yeah I know what I meant!
Once I said my feelings in a discord and some experts said, keep low profile and shut your damn mouth lol :D I feel I was correct! You guys did a great job, but what you missed is the token, you should pay rewards with a token that runs top of STEEM! But you guys didn't and now a new chapter!
Hope you have an idea and experience what has happened to DLIVE. They said a lot, but for me un-succeed when leaving this community! So, it might happen on drugwars (probably)!
Again the moment you missed everything was shift the entire structure out of STEEM, if you guys still think to attach with STEEM, but run top of this and bring a token which supports SMT in 2020! Then everything might be alright!
(My flag won't hurt you, I just used it to show that I am against what you guys upto)

Cheers~

So damn true this guy even sucks on writing articles may God give him a nice writer with nice english language LOL!!! Drugwars **** you

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