RE: Good-bye Steemmonsters, I've Had Enough With This Last Tourney Twist (HAPPILY UPDATED!)
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I am new to these type of games and reading the opinion of those who are not give me a better idea as to where I should stand on some issues.
For me, as long as they are going to do $100 in daily and $1000 in weekly freerolls as promised then I see these buy in games as extra games for us to play if we so choose.
I been saying it for as long as I can remember. SM is a gambling related game... similar to Poker. I fully expected to see buy ins for all level games from bronze to diamond.
However the wording of why they implemented the buy ins I don't like and leaves me with the lingering thought of ... I hope they don't plan on trying to put buy ins on the promised $100 daily / $1000 weekly "freerolls". I signed up a handful of players based on their promise of those games and I fully expect to see them implemented sometime in the near future now that auto tournaments are live. With that being said its hard to type everything out correctly and how you mean it 100% of the time so for the time being I am just going to enjoy what games are offered while waiting on the promised freeroll lineup.
I agree, but that is not what is happening... they are just doing smaller prizes for the freerolls and the bigger ones now you have to buy into.
And thanks for the feedback @rentmoney. I am in complete agreement with you, but that's not how I understood it.
I just had a discussion in regular SM chat. Low prize pool games will be free / medium ones +1 Steem and larger ones +5. This includes games that were previously advertised as $100/$1000 freerolls in the kickstarter and other places. I'm too disappointed to go back and read over the convo to see what amount was needed for the 1 steem buy in vs 5 Steem but the aforementioned was the jest of it. I'm all for buy in games but not in the freerolls we as a collective group have already earned.
I now feel as I been lying to people for months while advertising this game. $100 / $1000 daily/weekly freerolls were promised and a very vocal part of advertisement since I can remember. I posted that promise all over my blog and signed up 30 people under my affiliate link with that promise as the tag line, Plus countless others not under my link.
An in game currency will be adapted soon and that will certainly help with the sting of this but that still doesn't sit right with me.
Do people not remember the hot topics months back that said, make a meme of SM and up the Daily Freeroll from $40 to $50 or some version of that. Everyone who participated in those promos have already earned their entry in my eyes.
These freerolls were already earned. You can't go changing them to buy ins on the disguise of ..... but we want users to have a better experience and tournaments will take too long. If you want users to have a better experience then find a way to do that without taking away already earned games. I hope the SM team reconsiders their direction with this as I think its a massive blunder. I say all this not as an attack on SM or any of the decision makers but as my honest feedback as a player and as someone who has run hundreds of different variants of tournaments thus far in my lifetime.
You said it extremely well and I'm glad you are on the issue... It is a huge issue and they need to know. I get completely how you feel and why I'm making a big deal about it. If @yabapmatt and @aggroed don't address this, they will undo all the things we've done for them. It will set them back big time. Aggy did reply above if you want to respond directly, I have my response, but of course I recommend others tell him how they feel about it too.
If I can't (and everyone else) play my cards that I bought under the pretext that I could play in those tourneys, then it amounts to some serious charges against their ethics. If they think I've been tough on them, just wait til everyone figures it out. It won't be so civil, believe me.
Aggroed knows my stance on this via our discussion in the open discord chat. I have a decent amount of experience with running tournaments so I am not only speaking as a player / investor but I am also offering advice from my personal experience of running those tournaments. You simply don't offer something / have people qualify for it and then adjust the rules after the fact. It causes uproars such as this one and if done enough times will eventually cause loss of players. I do believe he is doing what he thinks is best currently but hopefully he takes all the collective feedback and changes his stance. I wish him and SM in general nothing but the best and hopefully one day we can all look back at all these topics and see they were the stepping stones in Mooning Steem-Monsters.
I'm with you on that... all of it... Well said @rentmoney and I hope you vision of the future is exactly like you said!
We all remember @rentmoney, but it seems others have self-induced amnesia all of a sudden.