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GreedMonger and Trials of Ascension, dead in the same month!

Discussion in 'General MMORPG Discussion' started by Azrile, Apr 6, 2015.

  1. Azrile

    Azrile Well-Known Member
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    GreedMonger and ToA have many things in common. The most obvious being that they are two games that attempted to be crowd-funded by nobodies with no programming or gamemaking experience. ToA tried twice at Kickstarter, once for 750k, the second time for 600k and both times the kickstarter failed. GreedMonger did a Kickstarter for 30k, and ended up raising 90k. After failing their first KS, ToA used an ingame cash-shop ( despite not having a single developer on staff) to raise enough money (60k)to hire a developer to create a video which they unsuccessfully used in their second KS.

    So in the end, that is $150k that was raised from fans by nobodies to create MMORPGs.

    ToA is now dead. The developer they hired with the money from their cash-shop quit once the second KS launched. The 60k was supposedly all spent making the video for the second KS. So no developers and no money and very little progress made on the game

    GreedMonger recently went loco. The lead developer ( and only developer) quit last week. The owner/money man blamed him for wasting money. The money man could not find anyone to take over the project, so instead handed the project back to the lead developer. And here is the crazy part.. the lead developer has admitted to being on disability for mental issues and lives with his mother. But now, he is going to develop a MMORPG by himself, with no money.

    And these are two games that spent $150,000 of ´players´ money.
     
    #1 Azrile, Apr 6, 2015
  2. troutski

    troutski Well-Known Member
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    None of this surprises me, although it does prove that gamers are willing to pay a lot of money for things that sound good, even though those things might turn out to be busts, as in this case. I never thought highly of either concept, and it's amusing that both games are now dead at relatively the same point in time. I feel bad for people that donated their money to either project, though.
     
    #2 troutski, Apr 6, 2015
  3. Robert89

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    Sounds like just your average day on Kickstarter to me. I've only ever pledged to reputable Kickstarter projects from proven developers/teams, and I intend to keep it that way.
     
    #3 Robert89, Apr 9, 2015
  4. Azrile

    Azrile Well-Known Member
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    In both cases it is surreal, It is like some MMORPG player literally woke up, said ´hey, I want to make an MMORPG´ and then made a KS with a bunch of notes, and nothing else... and people spent $150,000.. Neither game has technically closed shop, but it is doubtful any more development will be done on either.
     
    #4 Azrile, Apr 10, 2015
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