hankman I'm not sure exactly why you are calling it scam. Because we are preselling ingame currency and you think games are not serious enough to spend anything in ?
I know there is a lot of spam in that space. But being qualified like that makes me sad because we worked more that 8 months to set up a standard of emerging fairness game economy. I tried very hard work to set up the whole thing, for the first time in game industry, to align the developper/publisher to the community interest.
So people might like it join the idea or not. But qualify this as a scam is saddens me for all the effort that as been put by the passionate team.
My opinion is the most popular app genre is game and the most grossing, just looking at the app store and playstore top grossing app it's all about premium currency purchase.
As a company our goal is to be sustainable at least and being a super hit at best. Puzzle&Dragon a Japanese game for example is a mix of casual and arcade game. It generates 4.5 mio USD per day of sales. Thats what we are heading for.
We have now 5 years experience in doing games and I'm pretty confident we have the ability to push this to an great success, one of the reason is the fact blockchain technology opens up possibility for people to become digital asset game resellers and ability to expand the game.
I beleive this model is the future of the game economy, where the product is produced by the market for the market.
This is a good sign, if the game is average and it just has been funded and not yet developed we have room of improvement to make it a big hit.
Talking about steam before it emerged the success of valve came from people who created the mod counterstrike the could achieve high success thanks to the gamer community. This is also something I envision for Spells of Genesis