18 Feb Symbol blockchain news update โ 18/02/22
Woohoo, it’s Friday! ๐ฅณ I have an hour window before I have to brave the bad weather here and get in the car. Little bit worried as 80mph winds are forecast – wish me luck! ๐ฌ
I don’t have a huge amount to report on today but thought I would bring you up to date on the latest news about a questionable enterprise that is out to make money from the Symbol community.
Heroes and villains
So, you have probably heard about “The Heroes” game which apparently was being developed on Symbol. They have their own channel on the XYM City Discord and I think it is fair to say that people were wary of the project from quite early on. I have to point out here that it seems that they are legitimately developing a game but there have been a few warning signs about the project which have sprung up recently when their website was launched which I will cover today. Hatchet has researched this thoroughly so I will try to summarise some of the digging that she has done!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
First off is the remarkable similarity between some of the game artwork and well known commercial games. You can see this from Hatchet’s thread below. I don’t think that this can be put down to coincidence and maybe just shows that the designers don’t have much of an imagination ๐ I do wonder whether the games companies whose work has been used as “inspiration” would be OK with this though…
Money for nothing
It is unfortunate that some of the artwork has already been sold as an NFT on COMSA for the staggering price of 42,001 XYM or around $7,000 at today’s prices ๐ฌ
Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner
They also listed some very high-profile partnerships on their website, including the likes of Binance, COMSA, Symbol, NEM and FIBO Group. Hatchet was quick to point out that NEM and Symbol have not partnered with The Heroes and asked them to remove this statement from their website. She also contacted the other “partners” listed and these are the replies that she received. FIBO Group:
COMSA:
Binance:
In fact, it appears that none of the partners listed were actually partners at all and now all references have been removed from their website.
But at least it is built on Symbol?
So it is a game on the Symbol blockchain though right? Well, I can’t really work this out but there is an option to connect a Walletconnect compatible crypto wallet that doesn’t actually support Symbol ๐คจ What is going on here?
Good Riddance
So after these revelations, The Heroes weren’t very happy with Hatchet and now they are saying that they will move over to BinanceChain. I am sure that nobody in the Symbol community is upset by this ๐ If it seems a bit fishy then we don’t want anything to do with it.
I totally agree that we have talented game developers in our community already and we don’t need people coming in with an overhyped product and taking money from us in the hope of making a few quick bucks.
We are sailing (nearly)
Today really is the Hatchet show ๐ Here’s another important tweet. The team are asking for suggestions for Twitter handles – get involved and let them know what you like best (Hatchet I really hope that you registered all of these before holding the poll) as you might find that they are gone by the time the votes are in. I haven’t actually checked this but better to be safe than sorry!
Check out these balls!
I have said this before and I will say it again. I am proud to say I haven’t reached that time of life where I am spending my time on the golf course. Maybe that day will come. Do you suddenly wake up one day with an overwhelming urge to play golf and dress like a grandad? I am sure it won’t be long before I find out ๐ญ
If I were a golfer I would definitely be using these Symbol balls – I really like the designs. There can’t be many things left that haven’t been Symbol branded now ๐
Just a reminder
If you’re an NFT kind of guy then go check out COMSA – there really are some stunning artworks. I really like this one from @RookBl (and the rest of their work), You can also pick up some bargains so go check it out.
Thanks!
Again thanks for reading – I need to get going now so will leave it there, sorry if this is a bit rushed today!
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