The GLS team doesnt believe in taking such actions against user accounts. Its their choice.
But its not only their game that was hurt, its all the rest of us invested in it that were affected in multiple ways.
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arent we on a decentral blockchain to fork their stakes out due an proposal? recently justin got hit and had to pay back millions of Steem.
everything looks clear, also to people who not interacting with GL.
This theft happened on a Hive dapp called GLS. Not Hive itself.
i know - and the good part is they have an hive account which interact with dapp's like GLS.
Why fork them? They did nothing wrong.
"They did nothing wrong."
Here's a scenario and a challenge for you. I'm unfamiliar with GLS, and what's happening here is my first taste of it.
Convince me to invest.
If you like football, (soccer for the ones over the pond that prefer to use a fridge as a measuring unit instead of meters), then this is the game for you. It covers one of the most dynamic league, with one of the highest growth rates in the world. Remember, Pele, the greatest of all, never played in Europe, but played in MSL. This game is not released yet, but comes from the team that has blown two Kickstarter campaigns with the SPL game, the game with the most transactions of any cryptogame, where assets have 10x folded from the month they have been launched.
This is it, as the game is far from developed, where economy is not ready and most dump the airdrop as they did not invest a dime in it. Most who comment have 0 assets, 0 stake in it, and get the airdrop for free. I bought some packs, but dump the tokens, and when the game launches will probably buy them back at a discount. Same as I did on SPS, dumped the high value and bought them back for 50x less.
I'm not convinced.
you have not been convinced before..so why the effort...
But let me give you another try for the tagline before some smart guys invested some capital and took profit:
Come, there is free shit and endless airdrops, where people that invest some dough, might drop the ROI on your non investment airdrop...would you have been convinced on this tag line before the whole story?
You were presented with a thought experiment of sorts, not an invitation to debate, and I did not take a position before your response, as there was no need to.
After careful consideration and picking up on a few subtle cues, I think the most responsible position for me to take at this moment, is to remain silent, so I don't contribute to swaying any opinions or tarnishing any reputations.
I will say, regardless where one stands on this matter, everyone shares a common goal, and that is to recover from this.
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This conversation present interesting problem.
5 years ago we played a game, steemmonsters. It was interesting relatively cheap funny game. Was it investment? Maybe at some levels? Definitely with time, when gaining value, it changed perspective of people and became investment. This perspective probably influence every next hive nft project to the point that investment and speculation becomes more important than game itself, can even exist without game.
It is much easier to convince someone to play the game than to invest.
This GLS thing is not even game yet but already investment.
We can agree that it is much better when game, being good change to investment eventually, than just investment from the start.
Not sure you can be convinced to invest, cause there is nothing still, maybe you can be tricked into it, by arguments above that Pele played MLS few decades ago and it's splinterlands developing game(not even sure about that, it could be just branding and new people hired), am not convinced by that either, could be tricked but experienced enough to just wait for a game, but I see how it is investment speculation, and how it damages project already.
I would like to play the game, and might try it when released but at this point it is purely investment, speculation, already with increased risk after this event. Little bit afraid already that game will not matter, scared that 90% of the game will be just farming tokens.
Something to think about as well. Mindset. The investor and the gamer are two different beasts. Both highly competitive for instance, but do not intertwine. Investor loses, it's game over. Gamer loses, it's time to start a new round. Investor feels like they're winning by getting in early. Gamer feels like they've lost before they started if they get in late. Investor wants a competitive edge. Gamer wants an even playing field. If the gamer wins every time, they lose interest. Investor wins every time, they gain interest.
Could go on and on but the point is, they're not even playing the same game. Some shared traits but built entirely different.
To end that with a joke, I want to say I'm certain these games would benefit from a few rounds of psychotherapy.
I, personally, do not want to single out any projects or individuals in this space. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong. It's their work, not mine. If I'm telling people how to do their jobs, I'm getting paid for it. I'm noticing many lean towards governance and governance tokens anyway. There's your say. No need to talk. But did anyone notice, by default, there are two conflicting parties? Naturally, it is highly unlikely the gamer will ever be in charge of the game. The hybrid is incredibly rare.
On another note, false advertising. Yeah, there's a lot of that and this new branch of industry seems hungry and doesn't mind eating itself to death, but since I'm not convinced, it's not my problem.
A fork was suggested to the team, they did not wish to do so.
Yeah, I have some staked myself. It's admirable that they don't believe in it. But still...
I know.
That is wild. I get it to some extent, they want to perpetuate the entire idea of decentralization. That said we are talking about a game which they have full control over so itll never be decentralized anyways. What a joke of a project. No way I'm getting involved.