Im starting to notice some odd shit going on here. 1st the thread was bumping all kinds every day with over 50 different forum members from my count, devs were here making updates, and tweeting 3-4 times a day, now the tweeting has almost stopped, the thread is not being bumped and it looks like a whole bunch of people who used to support jewels do not any more. The title of the thread has not been updated once since the ico was over but it was updated 100 times during the sale. That And what about marketing for Heros. If its supposed to launch this week dont you think you should be promoting it to the bitcoin talk community? (HYPE TAKES TIME TO BUILD YOU KNOW) And dont give me some bullshit like the people on this forum are not your target demographic because its the people on this forum who have funded this project and will have the loudest voice of them all when it comes to sharing their passion for this project, jewels and the pro 4 never games.
Id like to see some serious marketing getting started, press releases, articles, signature campains ect. You have the money so spend it, unless ofc you dont care about us investors, the ones who made this all possible.
Waiting to hear back from Chris on this.
Happy to address some of your concerns.
Dev UpdatesWe're incredibly busy right now finalizing the new heroes website, getting the game ready, dealing with the contractors we've hired to work on graphics assets for the gambling games. Admittedly that's taken some of our time away from this thread. I would expect to see more being posted here following the launch once we're ready for people to start joining.
Hype-o-meterWe don't particularly want a large rush of players right as the clock strikes midnight in heroes. While we've done plenty of internal stress testing, brought in various members of our community to gather their feedback and test new systems, we cannot guarantee that there will be no complications. We fully expect the launch will take time to build steam in terms of player base.
In terms of advertisements, we have our newsletter, facebook and youtube ad campaigns all ready to be started directly targeting both former players of apex, players of other similar projects and those who have played the official version of conquer online. Those will be started once the new website is online, in advance of the official launch of heroes.
Investors vs gamers/split of advertisementsHeroes was developed completely separate from the ICO. No funds from investors have been used towards heroes or its development. This was made clear throughout the entirety of this thread. The funds are being used to develop the following.
-Jewels backend: web wallet, account management, paypal>jewels portal, transaction management, gambling api, etc)
-Jewels gambling front end: Two phases of gambling games playable with jewels made available to existing players of apex/triumph as well as on their own dedicated gambling website and mobile apps.
-Full jewels integration for heroes followed by apex: Jewels will be the premium currency inside the game used to purchase cosmetics and character boosts, to unlock additional content, etc.
-Project rebirth playable prototype (saved for after all initial jewels integration and gambling games are live)
The jewels web portal is online and gaining in functionality every day (that's were the vast majority of our efforts since the ICO ending have been placed)
The gambling front end is in development. It's taking a bit longer than planned but we have a number of contractors working on visual art assets for it and we have finalized the phase 1 design document and started on programming the individual mini games. There will be more to post publicly on that as the contractors complete their tasks so there is more visually available for us to post (right now it's all console apps and statistics sheets)
The jewels integration into heroes will be finalized and the new website launched in advance of the server being launched. That is our primary concern right now and what we are focusing our efforts on at the moment.
I dont like your answer and Im pretty sure koinsmart agrees that you are still dropping the ball on the marketing game. I have been quietly reading the thread for the last few weeks while community members continue to give you advice and tips and you continue to ignore them as if you really do know what's best for the investors. Not the gamers, not pro4never but for the people who invested over 300 btc in you. That's a lot of money and if you mismanage it or screw this up it could be very bard for you being a Canadian and all. Im pretty sure selling unlicensed securities is a big nono. So my advice to you is to focus on making the investors happy because if you suddenly get a bunch of sour investors this can go from the gem it started as to the cloudy gem it is today to a big dog turd very quickly.