Without anyone's approval or consulting with the community first, the dev behind DrugWars or whoever is responsible for this outlandish, reckless and irresponsible move, has single-handedly killed DrugWars, in a heartbeat. After changing the game so many times before, dilluting "investors" stake (hate to use this word for DW players), making it unplayable for weeks on end, it came to light that the terms of payout are changed (not for the better), once again.
And you have less than 48 hours before it's implemented.
A dick move at best.
This time, the rewards aren't going to be paid out in a lesser amount to drive sustainability of the game but rather in a freshly minted shitcoin called FUTURE. A coin we have no reason to believe will hold any significant value in the future. Especially not a value anywhere close to the coin which was used to pay for in-game items and in which the rewards have been paid out since the get-go.
As most of you know (even if you haven't "played" the "game") earning STEEM for "playing" was the strongest motive for most players to "play" and the only reason some "invested" their money into it.
It has been promised from the start, engraved in the blockchain and even made into a motto. "The drugs and guns are virtual but the money is real."
I guess they should change it now as it is not true anymore.
The money ain't real no more!
Instead of it being tangible like it was before (paid out in STEEM) now it's non-existent. It's merely a promise that the people who are known for intentionally fucking up their early investors, many times before (especially big ones), will actually use the promised % of STEEM invested to buyback their FUTURE shitcoins when you dump them on the market.
Is that a bet you would be willing to put money on?
I can't say that I would. Not after seeing how they managed it so far and how little they think of the people that supported their "game".
The bottom line is that
You ain't getting your money back!
And the worst thing about it is how poorly they scapegoat.
Why FUTURE and not DRUGS?
We wanted an unique token which can be cross used over all our platforms (and maybe even more). The name DRUGS was also complicated for being listed on exchanges.
Firstly, why FUTURE not STEEM?
That's what their title should have been but its something they obviously won't go into...
Secondly, that's complete, utter bs!
That's straight out two-timing everyone who put any money into your "game". And it's not the first time you have made such a move but it's rather the worst one, to date. Mainly because if everyone knew this from the get-go, most wouldn't send two STEEM your way. Additionally, those that invested in your "game" care NOT about your other platforms but about DW!
Finally, giving souch a lousy reason for this martyrdom is unacceptable and only serves as an insult to the intelligence of people that had anything to do with your "game". You must think of them as pure imbeciles to be able to say such a thing without thinking twice about it.
- BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE! Listen to this.
In depth.
The new mechanic is still based on your drugs production as well as the Heist. That will allow you to earn the FUTURE tokens. Then you will be able to use the FUTURE Tokens in the game and later on you’ll be able to exchange (which won’t take too much time as discussions are being held now). Plus: You will also get FUTURE Tokens airdropped depending on your investment in Drugwars.
First of all, "in depth"? This is what you condsider to be in depth? You must be fucking joking, right? Sadly, no, they aren't.
So, instead of getting liquid STEEM, now everyone will get some worthless shitcoins which can then be exchanged for in-game items. How fucking awesome, right?
WRONG!
Oh wait, stutters - b, b, b, but, you will be able to exchange them for STEEM in the future, right?
I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Mostly because they will be worth so little that the amounts they will sell for are going to be meaningless for most. If not straight away, then after a couple of weeks for sure....
PLUS! Like that is supposed to be a bonus.
PLUS: they will also be giving away some FUTURE based on amount spent on the game, further diluting its value to the max.
And the absurdity of their reasoning goes on throughout their post.
Wait! What happen to the rest of the pool?
The entire pool will be used to inject value to the FUTURE tokens. This will give a way for all early players to recover a small fraction of their Steem if they want. (But we definitely suggest you to keep them because nobody know what the FUTURE is made from)
Nothing to worry about here. Definitely not an exit scam! We will just take all of the STEEM from the pool and use it to buy back our shitcoins from you some time down the line. You gotta trust us on that though.
Can I still be rewarded with Steem?
Of course, you can still earn Steem with DrugWars upvotes, we keep the share system and will improve it to make it more interesting for delegators and obviously for FUTURE holders!
Are they even for real? I can't believe they can be as cocky as to say such a thing.
We removed the reward pool but you can still get upvoted from an account that has 21k SP and we will take a 30% cut from the entire post meaning, that in the end, you will actually reward us with STEEM for being such an idiot in the first place.
And this just goes on and on and on.
Why this change was needed?
The sustainability of the game was one of the motive for this change and to reduce the cost of each items, buildings, and units in Drugwars. Above that, other revenue streams are coming but the motivation to tokenize the game was primary to us. Furthermore we are taking another step forward in the tokenization of all of our active and upcoming projects that you can find here by introducing the FUTURE token in every applications under Futureshock.
So, again you are devaluing someones investment for the sake of prolonging the inevitable death of a flawed system you knew was going to fail from day one.
That's something you would be going to jail for in some countries.
And this is what the guy behind Drugwars has to say:
Hey @truthforce all investment with Steem are giving you the same benefits now and will do in the future.
Now that's a straight out lie! The benefits to "investing" or buying in-game items, however you want to put it, is definitely NOT the same after implementation of this change.
Getting some shitcoins for spending STEEM is NOT the same as to getting STEEM for spending STEEM. Everyone should be able to come to that same conclusion but @hightouch must think that we are all half-wit retards.
Which he then confirmed once again in his other reply:
"Allow the Rewards Pool to be drained over time and the Steem payouts to happen like was implicilty and explicity promised to happen."
The choice was between giving back all the pool to players depending of their investment, or let them choose what they want to do with the FUTURE token.
We prefered to give the choice to players nothing else!
"We preferred to give the choice to players nothing else!"
That's a blatant lie.
If he truly wanted to give players some choice he should have refunded (kept paying out) their investments in STEEM because issuing some freshly minted shitcoins for that purpose isn't really much of a choice or compensation.
I don't know what else to say about this mess to be honest. @hightouch dug @drugwars such a massive hole with this ninja-move that it just can't get out from anymore. Unless he decides not to implement this catabolic feature.
If does it goes through, this will be the move that ruined DrugWars for everyone and forever tarnished the credibility and integrity of @hightouch and @futureshock.
Way to go!
The backlash is real (can be seen in the comment section of their latest post) but I wonder why big-time investors like @berniesanders, @themarkymark, @broncnutz and others haven't reacted yet. Will be interesting to see what their perspective is and what they will do about it.
Needless to say, I'm especially eager to see what Berns does.
Anyway, this was another hard lesson to learn for many. One that will pay out in the future if you decide not to repeat it!
Never trust a project with your money. Even if their team has been here for a while and were credible so far, that doesn't mean they will continue with the same enthusiasm and integrity in the future.
I already have some suspicion of where does the money even come from if they can give people ROI. I never went beyond the welcome page, I have never logged into the website, let alone buying any in-game resources.
I knew something like this was going to happen at some point, and there it is 🙃
EDIT: forgot to mention that I flagged all recent posts made from all accounts owned by futureshock
Yep. It was obvious from the beginning it's a ponzi. Most of the people who "played" the game also knew that and still decided to invest as they thought they would get a ROI. Some did, while others didn't. There isn't much else to say about it other than you win some, you lose some, I guess...
Nevertheless, it will be interesting to follow up on the situation and its consequences.
I had a user come and "want me to join" after showing me images that promised ROI... I don't like promised ROI for many reasons. It makes steem look bad.
Excellent analysis. I'm mildly amused because of how predictable this exit scam was (although it came more abruptly and idiotically than expected), but still it's frustrating that people like them keep on tarnishing Steem's reputation, and of cryptocurrencies in general.
Not sure if they are really thoughtless inconsiderate persons, or if they are faking it to hide criminal intentions.
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Thank you! This exit scam perplexes me tbh. I can't understand if @hightouch thinks we are all retards or is he one himself?
Anyway, it will be interesting to follow up on the imminent backlash of whales and others who invested a lot and lost quite a bit in the process.
The drugwars discord is very entertaining right now! I can't accept that someone with programming skills can be this idiotic, this is purely a scam and he's hoping the players are gullible enough to let it pass.
As per hightouch's words "when I see 20 people angry, there is 100 people who are eager behind, so :D"
Yeah right!
And he also said the "future" token won't even be on the Steem blockchain. So he'll be dumping ~20000 steem for eos or whatever to pump his inherently worthless token.
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Me neither, he surely isn't this stupid and is just playing dumb for the idiots who will buy into his bullshit. That's the worst thing and something that pisses me off the most about this shitstorm.
Was just going through the entire discord and man o man is it a mess....
The arrogance this dude has to say something like this and be able to look at himself in the mirror afterward....
So, the early investors will get something after all. I reckon they are the ones who know where the token will be and the ones who will dump it on everyone to take the most of the STEEM he will "put in to make it valuable".
I'm mad beyond comprehension to how he handles the situation and thinks everything is going to be alright, people are retarded enough to let it slide anyway.
I am the luckest guy.
I have know for long that this game will soon crash and fall that is why i was cautions of how i invested. And that God i did not put in much money into a shit game just to be earning future coin now.
That is shit.
!bookkeeping drugwars
Hi @adenijiadeshina!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 38.16 days.
Your ROI per day is 7.51 % and you are earning approx. 2.18 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 2.12 % and you are earning approx. 0.61 STEEM per day.
I put in more than double and still got my money back :D The only ones who didn't are the ones that came in too late or invested too much.
Yes excatly.
!dramatoken
You've got
DRAMA!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.hahaha thanks for calling the drama upon me :D
Still better token than Future
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!dramatoken
Here's your
DRAMA. Don't spend it all in one place!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.Thanks for the drama @beggars!
Seems like the perfect time to test this:
!dramatoken
Sorry, you don't have enough
DRAMA.You need
9.00000 DRAMAmore for a chance to make it happen.To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.Dreams shattered.
so much tokens, so little time :D
I said it from the beginning it was a ponzi, I even made a post about it. Luckily, I did not invest much, and my profit is kind of not pretty bad, as I was in there from the very beginning. Sad story, but a ponzi is never sustainable in the long run...
Yep, it had to go down like any other ponzi. It was just a matter of time and it went down sooner than I thought it would tbh.
Am not really into games, so I was never interested in drugwars in the first place.
Good thing that you didn't :D Saved yourself some STEEM in the process!
Da fuq is going on xD
A huge shitstorm is about to come by :D
I had my doubts. Invested a very small amount which I recovered. The whole scenario sounds pretty bad. But I do hope that the new coin do have some value, so those who had put in lot of money in the end don't face big losses.
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I actually got a ROI on all of the accounts I played on. SOme even 2x and it's only because I didn't keep investing after the point of diminishing returns and "played it out smart" but that doesn't mean everyone got their money back, of course....
Talk about a shitshow
hahahah
the true shitstorm is still brewing (whales backlash or more specifically bernie)
!bookkeeping drugwars
Hi @axeman!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 37.64 days.
Your ROI per day is 4.04 % and you are earning approx. 3.42 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 1.32 % and you are earning approx. 1.11 STEEM per day.
Nice idea, I will check it out too
!bookkeeping drugwars
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Hi @scienceblocks!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 30.69 days.
Your ROI per day is 4.68 % and you are earning approx. 1.05 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 2.92 % and you are earning approx. 0.65 STEEM per day.
good idea :D let's see by how much am I in the greeeenz
!bookkeeping drugwars
Although my alts are doing much better (more than 2x)
Hi @runicar!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 37.64 days.
Your ROI per day is 3.00 % and you are earning approx. 3.97 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 0.81 % and you are earning approx. 1.07 STEEM per day.
In a way DW works perfectly! Drugs and gangs are dirty, there is deception, violence, stealing and murder. It was clear from the beginning that reward system is based on a pyramid. Thus it would quickly end up with some loosing. Still, people invested or gambled and referred to earn through referral system (being conscious about pyramid reward system, dirty attitude isn't it?) . But it was a misunderstanding for anybody to perceive DW as an investment opportunity. Unfortunately, there is not much of a game in this game.
I've stopped buying in quickly after realising it's a pyramid reward system and gameplay is non-existent and disappointing.
One can say there is one gang that is milking all other gangs! Welcome to the world of drugs and gangs! Kind of a perfect game showing social greed and naivety.
!bookkeeping drugwars
Hi @hotbit!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 41.03 days.
Your ROI per day is 10.17 % and you are earning approx. 1.65 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 3.75 % and you are earning approx. 0.61 STEEM per day.
@runicar , that lesson been learned. If this will become a reality then i will gain only a loss. Not that much, but 150 steem is enough to say that dw dev's will smash to the floor them reputation -for a really long time.
Yep, a hard one indeed. Sorry for your loss brother. We ought to be more careful with who we trust on this chain of blocks as some just have their own personal benefit in the forefront.
They will kill their reputation beyond repair if they still decide to go through with this after such an outrage by the community.
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Top, I love this article. It's so funny to see angry people. Hovewer drugwars become a gigantic shit.
Who wouldn't be mad when a half-wit considers Steemians to be retarded? I didn't lose anything but I know quite a few people that did. My feels go towards them for the STEEM they will never get back.
I completely agree with you, they launched the game with promises that after they didn't keep, plus they don't listen to the players to improve the game.
Is this future token they are talking about build on steem, or it's an other blockchain they are trying to build ? Not on Steem-Engine ? Do they want to do the dlive move ? Thanks god I never play games with my hard earned steem.
I have no idea tbh. They didn't say if it's going to be SE or future SMT or whatever. Anyway, it will never have any value so it doesn't really matter what it is :D
Yeah, I'm glad we have people like you, who open eyes for a lot of people here. There are a lot of people wanting to profit from steem traffic and we have to stand together against them.
Thanks clix! I do my best to point out bad actors when they try to pull a fast one on the community.
I just found out that they are pulling a Dlive on us. The token won't be on STEEM until we get SMT's which may not be for another year, two maybe, considering how slow Stinc was to develop it so far..... Arghhghghgh the frustration increases.....
After the first update was my addiction gone with the wind!
!bookkeeping drugwars
Hi @sinzzer!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 36.41 days.
Your ROI per day is 1.18 % and you are earning approx. 3.54 STEEM per day.
Break even in approx. 48.0 days.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 0.35 % and you are earning approx. 1.03 STEEM per day.
Break even in approx. 164.6 days.
Nice feature thanks.
I know how you feel. Damn, that must sting. Sorry for the loss. I hope you will stand strong and recoup it like a boss!
It was just a matter of time, prizes were going down rapidly for last couple of days and it already became clear that people who put in a lot won't get their money back. I'm just happy to be on the other side that took advantage of stupid game system and made profit.
!bookkeeping drugwars
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Hi @sulepower!
drugwars
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Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 25.04 days.
Your ROI per day is 56.83 % and you are earning approx. 1.29 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 115.33 % and you are earning approx. 2.61 STEEM per day.
Thank God I didn't invest any money into this Ponzi
!bookkeeping drugwars
You would have still made a good profit if you came in early :D I got around 200 STEEM in total profit.
Could have but I'm not that lucky, I'm late most of the time but still not investing early is better than investing at the top
Hi @warrior-sage!
drugwars
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First transfer was before 25.19 days.
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When will it start?this updayte?
And not only they are changing to Future tokens but shittingly giving less rewards then shown on the game wtf if it's 0.3 Steem in heist I only get 0.19 where are the rest ones? Did it magically disappear
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I guess they will implement it tomorrow.
lol! I had no clue they were doing that. Now that's a dick move of an entirely different magnitude. Can't believe they would sink that low so fast.
What to say they fucked up that's it to say now and to aware minnows not to invest on this shitty game DRUGWARS FUCK YOU
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!bookkeeping drugwars
Lets see if I'm in the green with this game.
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Hi @rishi556!
drugwars
Received:
Spent:
Total:
First transfer was before 38.55 days.
Your ROI per day is 11.16 % and you are earning approx. 0.61 STEEM per day.
ROI when taking only the last 5 days into account
Your ROI per day is 9.36 % and you are earning approx. 0.51 STEEM per day.
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!bookkeeping drugwars steemmonsters
Shocking.
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DRAMA.You need
10.00000 DRAMAmore for a chance to make it happen.To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.What a scam. These devs should be held accountable. Is there some kind of court of justice or any legal action one can take when outright scammers like this take your money?
Crazy, right? Though, since the outrage they postponed implementation of FUTURE, I still think they will do it at some point of time. I also now suspect that it's their way of honoring those who invested a couple thousand STEEM and got barely anything out of it as they would have some insider info about where the token is and how to dump it first. Devs would then use the STEEM they got to buy out their FUTURE thus, paying back a portion of their "investment" which they would have never gotten from daily rewards.
I don't think we can do anything legally about this tbh. It's just a game, I guess. Don't know how well this case would hold in court but if the situation was more serious (they stole a lot more STEEM from many more people) it would be a different case altogether but getting a moneyback would still be difficult.
I see, very interesting. The hustle is going on in crypto one way or the other.