The original proposal on Steem paid out to the @steem-keychain account and the new, upcoming proposal on Hive will pay out to the @keychain account. Never have they paid out to me directly. It also doesn't pay out to @stoodkev directly because we don't know for sure that he will always be doing all of the work. In the future there may be other developers (or designers, etc.) working on the project that will receive payments, so that's why the proposal pays out to an account set up specifically for this project and then funds can be transparently distributed from there.
How do you defend against storing @steemmonsters accounts server-side and never giving the keys to the users? Don't you think it's a bit abuse?
This statement is also incorrect. Users can retrieve the keys to their account created through the Splinterlands game website after they have purchased the Summoner's Spellbook (previously known as the Starter Set) which costs $10 and provides many other benefits in the game beyond just getting account keys. At that point, they may change their keys if they do not want us to have access to them.
We are working hard to bring in non-crypto users to the game and most of them are just not capable of securely storing keys and not losing them, so it's absolutely essential that we do that for them. Anyone who is capable of that can request and change their keys, or make an account through any other method and use that to log into the game.
They also get a starter pack, I think.
So basically they should run for free and educate users. The best business model to never make money or get a user base, inspired from Dtube!
Harsh comment for all the shit you say.