Yep, this was already announced, and I see that you've made a post there to redirect here. Might want to contact that marketing agency. Did a bad job if they posted the wrong links (since it was down for all of us who tried then).
We have dealt with our side. Annoying!
Following up from comments in that thread, my question remains: why do an ICO? The product seems simple enough to build. Someone thought you might do a bankroll, but if you're only allowed to bet micro amounts, surely you don't really need a big bankroll that couldn't anyway be built from all them players mining?
It’s a good question. The reason for the token sale is because our token provides our customers with access to crypto markets. We are targeting and expecting a lot of our customers to be new to the crypto space – they are unlikely to have a crypto wallet and may not even understand the digital asset space. Our token, Prize, will be their access token to crypto markets. While on FreeCash, they are gaming with their hashes they have no means to redeem their wins other than through a conversion to PRIZE which will then allow them access to other crypto redemptions or alternative prizes!
The raise is required to raise funds for marketing and to build an advertising/prize ecosystem as part of Phase 1. Acquisition of consumers is an expensive business as we need to offer lucrative prizes and incentives to take part (successful businesses like Amazon, and uber perform heavy discounting/promotion as part of similar mass customer acquisition campaigns). If we were just a mining platform, on day 1 with only a small number of players (i.e. less than a few hundred thousand) the prizes we can offer would not be very significant, and so incentive to join the pool would likely be restricted to enthusiasts only. With a healthy marketing corpus we can offer attractive prizes from the day of launch (e.g. $25,000 slot machine payout, or $100,000 lottery payout) with the user not having to commit any funds or do anything other than play our games on their phone.
We feel that tokensation is an important part of our ecosystem. The ICO token, PRIZE, is designed to provide access to the gamers in the form of advertising. The logic is that with a large volume of players, consumer product and service companies will want to get in front of them and feature themselves as aspirational items to own or use. FreeCash offers this visibility by enabled the sponsor to pay a reasonable amount to position the product in front of the player, and also obtain promotional/social-media coverage when it is awarded to the winners that cash out with it. Advertisers bid for access to the cash-out/prize section of the game using the token via a smart contract.
The prize awards, and associated social media marketing are intended to then drive awareness with new potential gamers, further increasing the volume of players - which in turn is expected to drive more demand from advertisers to get involved.
Thank you for taking the time in coming back to us on the correct ANN!