Re: Death of Elysium, birth of Light's Hope
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:23 pm
Kickmuck wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huH76MviuCs&feature=youtu.be
Kickmuck wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huH76MviuCs&feature=youtu.be
Fundraising for the project wouldn't be a problem. This project is much bigger than Scapegaming was. Scapegaming, a WoW emulator project with 427,000 users, had hoarded over $3 million in a PayPal account (https://www.geek.com/games/blizzard-win ... s-1277800/). Elysium had over 1,030,000 users as of 1st of July 2017 (https://i.imgur.com/AaoKPxV.jpg).JimPaladin wrote:It's a slippery slope when you're talking about a private server like this. It's hard to manage and it costs a lot to keep supported. Resources for those things have to come from somewhere. When it's just random fans/people looking for an opportunity who are behind projects like this, you're obviously going to face the issue of people immorally abusing certain privileges to either generate cash that is vital for the continuation of the project, or is merely a grab for money when the opportunity presents itself.
Exactly. Shenna and Whitekidney even justify Shenna leeching money off the PayPal account people have been donating to. Crogge justifies his actions of selling gold to goldsellers and creating high rank characters, etc. They want compensation in cash for working on the project. Would we really have a trustworthy, transparent leadership with Pottu's new project, Light's Hope? Take into consideration that he's been involved in deceiving the player base by concealing the fact that Shenna never abandoned the project. Back in March he was also moderating and deleting my posts over at the Elysium forums when I questioned them about donations. Red flag if you ask me.JimPaladin wrote:It's unfortunate, but if people aren't making any money for putting in work on something like this, they're going to be more likely to become untrustworthy and weasel ways to skim money from the server or make it by selling generate in-game things. I mean ideally you'd have an entire staff of people who are fine just working on a passion project, but hoping for a perfect world scenario isn't a very legitimate practice.