I work in network TV, on gaming community planning for TV shows. There is a *lot* of interest in my world about what is going on with altcoins, and since a TV series's production costs are very expensive it cannot allow itself to be connected to something that can be scammed and manipulated easily. You're right, I could have picked several other altcoins to observe, MEOW was somewhat randomly selected from a pool of 10 I narrowed down to (some of the others I am watching as well, but not involved in the forums - i picked one thats sure to be abused, and a couple that are sure to succeed , and one or two that i think are on the border, MEOW is one of those)
What network? I kind of doubt that a gaming network has interested in any alt coins beyond doge. The only way your network would be connected to a coin is if it gave some endorsement. When you review a crappy game are you all of a sudden connected to it? No. I am curious about what coins you picked and why a gaming network is so interested in altcoins if you want to PM me.
I respect your opinion but I think you are making a poor choice for your show.
No one is planning on using altcoins, no. Not even Doge, or even Litecoin for that matter. I work with a production company which contracts with multiple networks and distributors, so our clients are big names you've heard of and a 'background' names that you probably haven't. This is early stage research into how communities form around altcoins, or "coin-like systems" which would be a better way to put it, since the final product will be either something created specifically for a given show using something like an OpenTransactions framework, or else will be built on top of Bitcoin or Mastercoin or Ethereum, or something like protoshares. This is at least 18 months out, so the market will not resemble the market then. And the interest in "cons" is not in a particular con, but in gaining an overall sense of the various ways manipulation works in general in these communities. For a game to work, the balance between creating a sense of big opportunity (i.e. "winning") has to be offset by curbing the possibility for abuse through manipulation, and examining this is what I am here for. MEOW happens to be an interesting case due to it not being an obvious premine, but also not being an obviously fair-allocated coin either. You (or the devs) are trying to repair something that might not be repairable, given the circumstances, and this is more interesting than seeing a badly-planned coin get outed (I posted in another thread about one of those, in case you think I am just here to beat up on poor little kitteh), or a sure success getting promoted.