That title is horrible to read.
It would seem that the owner sold it to a private equity group, which is predictably seeking to milk the game for profits.
Fucking sons of a bitches, a pox on private equity firms, I hope they all get leprosy.
I mean, yeah.
However, in this particular case I think the CEO was running this as a pump and dump for nearly a decade, claiming to be fully funded and having no board (because he claimed it was self funded), and giving himself massive raises year over year.
So a private equity firm bought something hollow. I have some guesses about it. Probably a friend of his, probably got it cheap, and is about to gut whatever is left now that the guy who did own it got out with what he could. Why would PE buy it otherwise? There’s no goodwill or name to cash in on like what’s being done with Native Instruments.
I hope they all get untreated ciphilis.
Fun fact! Syphilis was known as the Great Pox, in contrast to Small Pox, which is why smallpox is called that!
A pox on them, both great and small.
Now I know!
Don’t worry! Ashes of Creation is self-funded so it won’t have any of the issues that other new MMOs have.
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It also technically '“released” to make sure nobody gets their promised refunds.
I always had a bad feeling about this game, it sucks that it actually panned out.
I was hoping it would become what they were trying to sell, but I had every expectation of it becoming everything that is wrong about MMOs. The biggest sign was demanding $100 for people to be alpha testers. You should be paying people that instead.
In 2019, I had a bunch of people try sell me on the game when they did the original node auctions. It was doomed from back then. I never thought the game would release.
It’s a shame people get paid to write headlines like that.
