Thank you for the AMA, MA !

I had the same reaction. No real answers were given. Nothing but vague evasions without getting to the crux of things. The one question I was hoping would be answered got hard-deleted.

(It was a guy asking why MA disadvantaged their partners). Obviously, that should be removed, rather than answered. Lord forbid inconvenient questions get seen by other members of PCF.

 

Unfortunately not the entire thread, but I copy/pasted the link, and the initial preview of it was saved.

The question then referred to some specific armour or weapons that made stuff dropped by other PPs redundant.

Link: http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?308620-Q1-Some-Weird-Gaijin

As you can see, that question got hard-deleted, rather than closed/moved.

And that example also perfectly shows why using PCF for an AMA was ridiculous. The sole reason for it was to ensure questions like these could be made to disappear, rather than simply ignored. You wouldn't want the people who simply don't know any better than MA being a fair organization know better than that not all Entropia Universe planet partners are treated equal.

 

The whole AMA, the 2 question limit, the rules, and the fact questions get hard deleted makes me think that MA actually has no fucking idea what an AMA really is. What they really organised was an AMABO2QEADAMATTATAIWDWIDWTA.

Ask Me Anything But Only 2 Questions Each And Don't Ask Me About This, This, And That And I Will Delete Whatever I Don't Want To Answer.

I'm somehow reminded of a MeatLoaf song...

"I would answer anything you ask, just don't ask me THAT."

 

Perhaps the question could have been worded a bit better, but not everyone is a native English speaker. The question itself seems perfectly valid, though, and it's definitely not the first time that Calypso pulls some power-move.

There was some event at one of the other planets at some point, and Kim decided that right at the exact same moment, he'd have to run something on Calypso as well. Some new in-demand weapon gets introduced on other planets, and Kim needs to one-up them (and somehow is not stopped by the completely useless balancing team).

There is a very clear history of favoritism happening with MA, and I think someone actually addressing that would have been the first step to admitting they simply *are* screwing over their partners. Also, Kim should be removed from anything to do with Calypso. The guy's incompetent, and only in that position because of who his daddy is.

 

I get what you are saying. But why exactly should other people be held to a higher standard than the very people who invited them to ask questions to begin with?

The people running MindArk are utter trash. They screwed over their customers by pretending their casino is a game. Let's face it. It's pure gambling, and should be advertised as such. By not doing so, and avoiding all responsibility in that, they have managed to allow people to destroy their lives.

They attempted to ruin the career of a professor who wrote a piece critical of their hyped up debit card. They ruined people's investments, by single-handedly changing the stats on items and real estate after inviting people over to invest in their "not a game". They screwed over the people they sucked in as partners, time and time again. Some of it is documented, but trust me when I say there's a ton more going on behind the scenes that most players would never ever find out about.

They launch a mobile game crowd funding effort, launching it as an incredible investment opportunity, with exaggerated ROI (without providing proper documentation of how they plan to achieve those results). Then, when due to piss-poor management the project fails, they flip the suckers who invested the bird, and offer them a buy-out worth a fraction of the money they took.

They attempt to launch a highly dubious ICO, with a business plan so poor that I was amazed to even see them reach 100k USD. Once again, boasting ludicrous returns. When the project failed, they claim it was a success due to some mysterious last-minute investors, whose transactions never showed up on the ledger. I'm guessing they hoped to be able to get away with that, but eventually were forced to admit defeat and refund people their money. This of course conveniently happened before the closing of the fiscal year, so the ICO won't have to show up i the financial report, because I honest to god doubt any accountancy firm in their sane mind would ever sign off on it.

If game developer companies were modern countries, MindArk would be Saudi Arabia.


So this company has a long history of lies and deceit of pretty much anyone they interact with. Remind me again why we ought to not be plumb with them?