i meant more like tournament hosting paid entry for things like cs:go, league of legends etc, online weapon skin shops using ion as a base coin. Not saying it would have made their coin tops but it definitely would have made some kind of eco system.
Their games sucked they arent triple a devs but tried to enter that competitive space. gravity was just pointless there are so many of these crappy games on every app store.
I think they were over confident on their offering and never once stopped to think if anyone actually would really use it.
Personally i would have skipped the coin creation and used something existing like ltc, btc lightning, dgb etc. That or put your dumb coin as a token. Leave the dev work to the pros.
There are a number of failures here, but they’re all things that are commonly found in altcoin communities. The base thing here is honestly just delusion, on the behalf of the ‘team’ and the investors.
They had no real idea of the level of interest, skills required or the amount of work they’d need to put in to develop a product that gamers and devs would engage with, and they still don’t. I still don’t believe that this is even something the gaming industry needs, anyway. They don’t have the skills in their ‘team’ so they’ve likely relied on outsourced game devs from Eastern Europe to develop the games from concept to delivery, and it shows in the shitty quality and lack of iteration on them.
They don’t have the coin dev skills in their ‘team’ so they’ve relied on a revolving door of contracted devs, hence the continual rebasing. I note that now they appear to be trying to shift some of the blame for the lack of delivery of ‘gamegrid’ on to the fact that ‘ion core’ who were developing the coin were too slow. This is nonsense because until ~2 months ago ‘ion core’ were still ostensibly part of ‘Ionomy’. Those who have been around long enough will no doubt remember that they blamed this exact thing for xpy.io’s failure, only then it was supposedly the xpy coin devs that were holding them back. This is clearly just an excuse.
I could go on. Their project management is dreadful; despite being apparently in charge of Ionomy, Matlack often has no idea what the status of any of their projects are, provides incorrect or over enthusiastic launch dates, etc. Their communication is appalling; they often go long periods between meaningful updates, and that’s been a problem right from the beginning. It’s worth noting here that despite being silent for a large chunk of this year about their projects, Matlack and co still found time in the middle part of the year to churn out a surprising number of political debate videos on their ‘Take Two’
YouTube channel.
Who knows if they’ll ever launch ‘gamegrid’. As I’ve said before, it’s pretty clear that they likely have no partnerships lined up, because they’d be wanting to launch more quickly if they did. The likes of Korvas won’t care about any of this, because to him somehow this will still remain a ‘100x’ opportunity, and destined for ‘parabolic growth’.