The Dragon King - The Battle for Te*lol*port tokens and ETH (Neverdie Studios) 26 March 2018

MA reclaiming Calypso pretty much is the same as saying they broke ties with SEE. Unless you somehow think that doing so would mean they continue a healthy relationship after such a drastic move? As you stated yourself, MA suck at communicating, and in this case I believe they released the absolute minimum in order to not embarrass themselves any further. Kind of like how they handled the Next Island fiasco ("Let's officially reclaim the planet after years of not saying a word about it, and keep it at that!). And the Spaniard Blend partnership ("If we simply never speak of them again, and remove them from our list of PPs, hopefully nobody will remember"). And all subsequent partnerships, both officially announced as well as unannounced.

MA did receive the first 1m, though. If I recall correctly, that much was disclosed when Calypso was transferred to SEE. Why else would they hand over control of Calypso if they hadn't gotten the 1m guarantee? SEE did not pay the following instalment, though. One can only wonder why that was, but the scenario I painted above is a possibility. It's rather obvious you choose to believe the MA version of the story, and completely ignore the settlement they reached.

Here's a hint. If MA got cheated by SEE, why on earth would they agree to a settlement where they have to *pay* SEE? The truth is out there, you just have to want to see it.

 

I'm not following. If SEE made a payment to MA, then failed to find the remainder of the funding, why would MA not be allowed to keep the money if they held up their end of the deal? What I don't follow is why you fail to get that MA paid back more than the 1m SEE paid them. MA *lost* money on this. If MA was in the right, why would they settle for walking away with less than when they started?

And if the only evidence you have that SEE is at fault because you have a picture of a rundown house, and that's enough to make you pick MAs side, while you ignore everything that company has done and lied about, I'm not sure why I even bother trying to point out what is a likely scenario.

SEE/Biallas obviously managed to get his fingers into some pretty big projects. I don't know about where you're from, but you don't typically get access to such deals unless you're either well connected, have a shit-ton of money, or both of the above. At that time, SEE managed to secure deals for what again? Planet Michael, something involving Asterix, Total Recall, and Universal monsters. MA at the same time was boasting their project wasn't picked by NASA.

I'm not claiming SEE wasn't at fault here. I barely know Biallas, but my interactions with him art the time have been far more professional than anything I ever heard come out of MA, and to the best of my knowledge, Biallas hasn't actually deliberately fucked over his partners. MA has. Multiple times.

But let's simply agree to disagree on this. You keep waving the "Yay MA flag". I'll keep being extremely skeptical of anything coming out of MA's holes.

 

That's the first time I ever hear of that theory.

But it's not a case of IF it's MA we're talking about. One of the addresses I found earlier was an apartment building. I use my own address for my business. Couldn't it simply be Biallas rented that house for a bit, added his company to it, and at some point moved? I know I did exactly that, and forgot to update my website. Heck, my site right now shows an address I haven't lived at for 4 years. The new owners are messy. If you'd see that on Google streetview you'd probably be claiming I live out of a cardboard box (hint: I'm not).

As for the images, I'm not convinced at all by your explanation. Those images were on there from day 1. That most likely means they were supplied by the developer contracted by SEE (NEVERDIE Studios). Why on earth would they hand their customer something not intended to be used by that customer?

I'd not at all be surprised if ND simply ended up removing the MJ specifics, and reused the models for his own planet once SEE pulled out., rather than letting the models go to waste. It's not as if ROCKtropia isn't a collection of seemingly randomly put together places. For Planet MJ a graveyard setting was built (If I remember correctly, it was for Thriller), but that's not going to happen, so why not slap a graveyard onto ROCKtropia and make the planet a little more diverse, rather than letting the models go to waste? Free extra content. Sometimes the most obvious explanations are the right ones.

Dude. Why on earth would they put a lie in a financial document that has to be signed off on by registered accountants? Again, sometimes the most obvious explanation is the right one. They were forced to settle with SEE, and ended up paying SEE the 1 million SEE paid them, and then a bunch more. Fuck, for all we know, Biallas used that bunch to move away from the old house.

 

I somehow made my way through that video. So in order to even play the game, you need to invest money? There's no free tutorial, nothing?

I once "played" some cat game also based on blockchain, and think it was the same. You need to spend crypto currency to play, with no way to play for free in order to test the waters. If that's the future of gaming, I'll stick to the past, thank you so much.

 

What a crock of shit that "game" is.

"You need to pay with real money to get a dragon. We then kill 10% of all dragons a day with the volcano. You can, however, buy protection against dying by paying real money. The money represented by the dead dragons is redistributed amongst the remaining players. Also, you can attack other players dragons".

So basically it's EU Space as a game, except there's no skills whatsoever involved, just money.

The concept of building up exp/attribute points and being able to "spend" those in other games is interesting, but hardly a reason to switch to blockchain. Heck, in the Quest for Glory series, you could import your character from 1 game to the other, and that pre-dates the blockchain by many many many years.

If the dragons game is supposed to be a showcase, it should be free. As it is right now, it's just charging people fees for something that doesn't appear to actually offer any playing-interface. In other words, all you do is hedge the risks and hope you don'tend up getting attacked or randomly targeted for death, which will give you the chance to win a few extra coins. No skills involved.

Jacobs actually compares it to a progressive jackpot himself. So yup. It's gambling. Posing as a game. Now which not-a-game Jacobs is closely associated has always tried to do its very best to avoid being labelled a casino?

Oh, and it took a year to develop this? A handful of attributes, a few dozen different "characters" that move from left to right and back, and an algorithm that destroys 10% of the characters on a daily basis. I'm no game developer, but that would probably take me about a month to throw together. Were the 51 remaining weeks just to get comfy with the blockchain?


The presentation was poor, too. Way too much "uhh, uhh" going on. He seemed at times confused about the game, failed to show any actual game play, and for a moment when he purchased his knight, it seemed as if there was some form of an error (but it actually was him not realising how his own game worked).

Based on the demo he did, I'd not bother registering for the game. And if I were a game developer, I have yet to be convinced as to why I should use their API to power my game. NEVERDIETRANSPORT or whatever name he is just as known as MindArk, and only has this dragon game in their portfolio.

Most game developers are interested in either telling a story, or entertaining people. This API offers neither options, only a way to monetize a game (and a poor one at it, because what advertiser would want to advertise on a platform that nobody uses or heard of, while there's tons of advertising options around that certainly offer more than "a balloon"?