How can I say this without being considered a fudder,
I honnestly think that your team has a clear lack of communication, which seems to me essential for a project like this one to be successfull, momentum is important, having some infos to corroborate and develop attention also, not everything relies on Developping because without funds and community you just have a potential that may not transform into a success.
Few points that I find important as to lack of communication and management:
First, An ICO date must be respected or announced delayed quite some time before, not the case here (though I admit you finally changed dates on ICO sites but very lately, after the supposed start, and the start is now 3 months after, knowing this I would have invested later and less), people who invest don't necessarily want their funds to be blocked advitam eternam specially with the volatility which will lead to 2nd point.
Many ICO's nowaday had the logic to modify their ICO prices when big moves like Ether had past few months, or pegged the price to dollar which seems lot more fair in comparison to a questionnable argument
Hey there, thank you for backing us
. As you know we obviously don't control the volatility and the value difference is is non consequential since our current valuation is an initial market comparison minimum. The tokens are still undervalued regardless of the Ether price appreciation for what we are aiming to deliver. You can Imagine the demand for a token with multiple revenue streams, and with just pokereum itself looking to disrupt the gaming industry of more than $30 billion/yr in revenues just by owning SUP?
So point is, SUP is not over valued regardless of the ether price rise. It is undervalued and considering our additional, market ready dapp to be released shortly after the pokereum demo. Our initial backers would be getting a steal
I invested at a certain price expecting an ICO at a given date after, and yes still undervalued, but 4 times less than originally, and the point of being early bird is to benefit from a potential gain. But I understand your point about early backers and your non responsability as to volatility, but it does change the deal even for future investors, and that may result in a potential fear of an over valued project and have your team gather less funds than anticipated. (posts like mine don't really help, I totally agree, but transparency seems essential to me, a direct message has lot less consideration.
No incentive as to bounty campaigns and visibility in the crypto environnement which will not help building a momentum even if july seems now pretty far.
Not answering a bounty translation, or just creating a bounty program so people can know and get prepared, or begin part of the work if it is considered which is not an obligation from you, but clarity is important.
To all the newcomers, I am not saying this prject is a scam, just that it had some lacks and I pointed them out hoping it might change something, this is all. I wish this project has success.
And by the way everybody
http://demo.pokereum.io/ the demo is coming out in 1 day now, and this is a great opportunity to test the client and see that this project is serious, concrete and hopefully of quality.
Since this is a first iteration, changes or modifications and improvements will happen, and maybe the team wants some return from the people who have tested it. That's where community is important.
Anyway sorry Innovator26 if you find me too aggressive or bad intented which is not the case.
This post might be modified depending on answers given.
Good luck team and glad to help out if something in my range shows up (not only here to criticize)
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