This IS NOT your town!!
The photo was taken from this website!
I have to say I agree with you. I looked at the game and thought it was worth playing but I did not think it was worth using any of the referral links posted so far on this thread. The previous posters appears to be disingenuous by attempting to distort the truth and I also agree with you that the pictures above appear to be copied from the home page on the main website link at
www.goldentowns.comThere's not massive payouts every month of thousands of Euros, this is a complete distortion. Total up all the bullion gold that backs the virtual gold in the game, this isn't worth a great deal of money either. The error in misrepresentation was the claim that X amount of virtual gold had been sold for Y Euros; the fact overlooked is that some of the main players have been a) involved with admin from previous games and hence had their investments in other Anno games carried forward into Goldentowns (I know this as I have spoken with some of the senior players) and b) you're overlooking the fact that these virtual gold resellers both buy and sell gold, that is, they don't only sell the virtual gold, they buy it off players too. For example they advertise to buy virtual gold at say 4 Euros per gold, and they advertise to sell virtual gold at 5 Euros per gold. As such, they certainly make what's know as a 'spread profit' between the buy and the sell prices, but it's a substantial misrepresentation to purport that all the gold they sell is for pure profit and that this profit is removed from the game by way of earnings every month.
It is disappointing that members of this forum would attempt to falsify easily verifiable facts in the hope that they could convince people to click their referral link to make an in-game profit and that many repeat posts have been made by this person in an attempt to cover up their misrepresentations and to persuade people of the legitimacy of the otherwise reasonable earning mechanism available to players in the game over time.
A quick look at the home page at
www.goldentowns.com (yes, type that in your browser to bypass any referral links in previous threads) will reveal that the amount of bullion gold which backs the virtual gold in this game is currently 128.0323 grams. If you look at the price of gold per ounce quoted by the World Gold Council on
www.gold.org you'll see the figure of USD$/oz Mid USD$1351.43 - with one troy ounce being worth 31.1034768 grams. That is the total value of virtual gold in the game is backed by approximately 4.116 ounces of gold, or roughly USD$5562.92.
Clearly, the previous poster has been distorting the available information to hook people into using their referral link to purport that players can easily make over 6800 Euros per month, a complete fabrication given that all the main players both buy and sell gold, so mentioning only the sold gold figure is only half the story.
Yes, over time I am sure that astute players could make money, but it is no-where in the magnitude of figures claimed by the above poster and members of this forum are right to be suspicious of outlandish claims based on only half the publicly available information.
Let me assure you that if it was a fantastic earning mechanism I'd be more than happy to publicise my referral link here or even mention my username in the Goldentowns game, but I didn't write my comments in this post to gain referrals, far from it, if you look earlier into this thread you'll see that I previously asked about the 'earning mechanism' then in response was fed repeated lies, distortions and falsifications of potential earnings, lies which are easily disproved by simply registering in the game for oneself, playing it for a few days, speaking with some of the senior people in the game, estimating potential 'spread profit' potential and measuring in-game gold backed by the current spot price of gold bullion.
And before the bullshitter above tries to slice and dice my post, fuck off, get a life and stop lying to people.