$8 Million MMO Scandal

chronicles of alvira eight million dollar kickstarter game oh lyria eight million dollar game reveal did this actually receive eight million dollars in funding 1.3 million dollars i'm assuming a company or like an investor came in as well if i had to guess surprisingly unlike every other kickstarter game ever they haven't just completely abandoned it at least they're giving updates still okay i'm interested let's take a peek well actually let me watch their initial pitch while we're here because they had a huge ask for this 900k piper jay i'm jeremy walsh what's up here with soulbound studios and creative director of the innovative new mmo chronicles of valyria i'm here today to talk to you about the kickstarter we're running for this new when a game says that it's innovative i know that it's not possible hi team what the [ __ ] going on coming from a broad range of game companies such as microsoft game studio sony online entertainment can i just see the game monolith bungie snow blind studio pandemic studios and liquid entertainment made sure that lance really just require player skills here we go example of that is our combat system which we'll talk more about later wow fourth design pillar and a lot of mmos that automate things such as fast travel and a mail system to make the game go by faster yes quality of life slow the game down again give you an opportunity to travel from point a to point b to stop and bank cancer that's a hard sell on me introduce those elements that allow opportunities for dramatically we removed everything that makes the game now that we have a high level overview where we permanently kill a character when they die of old age or uh uh but a problem we ran into if they don't eat healthy they get diabetes some feeling of continuity you have to really take care of your character and have to restart it's just enough one of the things i'm really excited about with chronicles of valyria and one of the things that we're doing a little bit differently is the introduction of a family system that's actually the third step in character creation after picking which soul you're going to use maybe you go down the dark side and you find alcohol almost today the first thing you do during character creation the family doesn't like that class and race i'm of no benefit to them or if i do come along this is a really long kickstarter pitch i'll be honest you said wait exactly this this is like a lot more effort than most bad kickstarters family which is the bolstering system it doesn't even seem bad so far some works like this if you're in game they are actually estimated delivery 2016. run sprint jump you can also vault climb onto walls hang off i see it's been a while come on to the rooftops and do flourishy jumps if you want to but the system look at that [ __ ] he's free running it's completely player skill based i sell that kind of [ __ ] in youtube videos as well as touch what happens when they don't deliver something i can actually build up a huge record there's no obligation for them to even deliver anything ever a large number of people a lot of them don't and then you can also set up a couple okay this is this is a lot to take in let's just see what we actually ended up getting this pitch seems like one of the most ambitious titles i've ever heard i i wouldn't be surprised if somewhere at the 15 minute mark they introduce a system that allows you to literally import your real soul into the game and live out the rest of your life in illyria so let's see what we actually ended up with this is a story about a game a game that claimed to give players the freedom they wanted freedom to live freedom to die hundreds of thousands of fines six years of waiting finally a game lets me die no one if you die in illyria you die in the real world i believe anything was possible for many it was literally a dream come true so where did it all go wrong let's start at the beginning april 28 2009 2009 a crowdfunding platform launches september 20th oh i was gonna say or at least the first thing jesus christ october 10th 2012 the game developers conference star citizen is announced you're never presented that's like a 300 million dollars crowd funded on a scale piece of [ __ ] anything we'd ever seen september 18th 2015 the first ever screenshot of chronicles of valeria would be shared wow twitter timeline look at that beauty it's already beginning to grow giving the company anywhere from five dollars at the lowest level of contribution to ten thousand dollars in the king or queen package at the top level each package would allegedly an array of goodies tempting the potential backers ranging from a wallpaper and access to the newsletter at the lowest end of the literal kingdom to rule over in the game at the high end for ten thousand dollars you could own your own kingdom and of course you're probably wondering if anyone would pay to be a king or a queen they did four of them and now they're just going financially very unhappy mostly positively project funding will continue on our site chronicles valeria.com after the kickstarter ends starting june 6th we will offer the ability to upgrade pledge when the website came up it would feature wow the exact dollar amount raised from the various products and perks sold on the website holy [ __ ] it would continue to tick by month after month as more fans of the genre caught wind of chronicles valeria and became enamored with the idea of this unbelievable journey they would soon embark but why though we have to introduce the supporting character just wait for it to come out and buy common payments with this came an admission of neglect neglecting transparency with the community that supported the dream to this stage the game was not progressing at the speed they had promised the inability to attract world-class engineers to let me see what does this statement even mean second we wrongly assume that having a kick-ass game design rock-solid team of core employees and successful kickstarter under our belt would immediately draw in world-renowned talent what you wanted like logan paul to promote it or something is it like what the [ __ ] is that statement even mean we continue to have only a single engineer from may until december of 2016. all right well that'll do it alpha one would not they're waiting for someone to make the game for them 2018. skipping forward to january 12th 2018. that's a good plan the game was still yet to be played some good kickstarters are they all a scam or something actually tech solution that they've announced i'm pretty harsh on kickstarters for good reason but some of them do deliver and they're good they had spoken so i think chivalry was actually a kickstarter funding continued to gradually increase throughout 2017 why but there was something in there they made almost a million dollars doing nothing deadlines lack of communication and holy [ __ ] in worrying crowdfunding events the cracks were already beginning to show the official channels for communication the discord the forums would become increasingly hostile and more people were either being banned or removing themselves the updates were less frequent september 6th 2019. let's go gameplay footage of chronicles of lyrius scene it looks so good [ __ ] 30th 2017. this is gonna change everything the first video ever from soulbound studios to receive a negative like to dislike ratio since the announcing of the game this looks like some [ __ ] we'd play on bad games from steve most comments flooded oh my god what's going on why did the game look this way i posted a video claiming that chronicles of valyria would soon cease oh now how dumb do you feel now that would subsequently be cancelled with the pre-alpha the players would finally get to test oh let's get it inside one more step and pre-alpha would be in the player's hands it actually looks like runescape like if runescape old-school runescape was made in unity but between holy [ __ ] and 350 each 20th of march 2020 wow the post opens so i feel stupid for being excited for breath of the wild too technology this exists it will deliver chronicles pre-alpha was available to the backers titled trial of the tested this would turn out to be nothing more than a small obstacle course many developers claim to be able to put together in a matter of days what the [ __ ] is this it's actually runescape they gave you an agility course climbing ziplining oh my god the post of course ended jagex has a lawsuit on their hands the non-disclosure agreement was in effect no one would be permitted to show footage of the gameplay it really does look like a student game of the experience like a freshman at university experiences are planned as this was happening a new player was approaching a discord appeared titled class action for coe a discord oh baby to get restitution for the community that had funded it wouldn't work completion and been raised more questions than answered talking about transparency restoring the forums in a read only i can't believe it didn't come out showing of backers 17th of august 2020 movement in the class action lawsuit discord some backers had hired lawyers and the ball had started to roll the letters of dancing legalese but both of them are uniform in their reply our clients did no wrongdoings our clients will not comply with your demands oh they're playing hardball that's neither side willing to budge the only solution settling caught let's [ __ ] get it until today the first of april 2021 when i'm recording this video not a single soul outside of soulbang studios has played chronicles of lyria but could attest to the authenticity of the project and many would be waiting patiently for the legal proceedings for clarity the prevailing sentiment being that if jeremy wouldn't share with us the real situation perhaps they could force him to in court this good idea valeria it was great he's been crushing it we watched like four kira tv videos because he's covering so many mmo scams that i've become addicted to and what remarkable timing because two days ago they released another episode from chronicles of valyria i am so excited so we saw the pre-alpha actually hold on before i do this let's watch like a full let's play of it because my intuition yet oh no oh oh oh that's all right we'll just ignore that that's it that'll be a times time lost let's go ahead on the left-hand side raging river right oh he's looking oh there's some combat in here in fact it even looks pretty smooth oh wow he's dead he's baby he's definitely very suspicious he's playing death animation does that count i think i didn't watch him die i didn't watch him is that part of the requirement we're just gonna assume that he died all right all right and then is this the second or first one oh this is the first one [ __ ] leery is so beautiful i wish our world could look like this it's like if james cameron made a video game and then took a [ __ ] on it and i'm about to start tearing up imagine spending ten thousand dollars to own a kingdom and this [ __ ] i think that would be worse than owning an nft why would they even release this we're still making changes to the ui so uh it might be a little smaller see all the name plates at once to make it easy to figure out where you're so they turned it into a rollercoaster tycoon like what is this of your npc's so we do want to be able to give you a bird's-eye view of knowing how healthy people are just by looking at it this does look like a game that nintendo would have shown off at their direct click on my all survived it's kind of what we've got the round neck with the straight legs why are you focusing on clothes so much with no lace short sleeve does anything happen in this game if the time or settlement are they just making this as quickly as possible to avoid being sued but after a recent play session like why do this weekly play tests we've decided that we want to at the very least add tools at its current size it's currently using the same game data as one of the larger rocks and that's because there's a lot of data and a lot of assets based on a game like this and we have to make sure that they're all kept in sync this is good all right chronicles of illyria you can sign up now to get nothing in return i guess except beyond jeremy's mailing list no it doesn't look like you can keep funding it which is great i think this game looks great i can see where you're coming from it does look pretty good you get to do nothing i guess which is pretty cool yeah i can't even find anything about this on their website they're still advertising it as an mmo but here it's not only not called chronicles of illyria anymore but it's also not an mmo apparently it's like a village builder where you get to pick out your character's clothes like a fashion designer thing how confusing well i have no sympathy for the people who paid ten thousand dollars like you you pretty much deserved it i don't know why you would blindly throw 10k into something on kickstarter especially when there's literally nothing to present that was cool another good mmo another kickstarter classic yeah it received eight million dollars total and there was four people in particular on kickstarter that backed for ten thousand dollars because they were told they'd get to own their own village in the mmo i don't even understand why you'd ever believe that nor want that i like that they're all mmos yeah you know the reason they're mmos is because that's the most marketable genre most people play an mmo or have played an mmo at some point so it's just the most general genre to get as many people as possible there's actual reason that they're all mmos

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Published: Thu Jun 17 2021