Re: [ANN] ION [ION] | ICO LIVE | PoS 3.0 | Mobile Gaming

I have got the dev team's email reply ,,,they usually share information and answer questons on: https://ionomy.slack.com/

The following is the dev team's explaination why they didn't put information here

Dave (ionomy)
May 23, 8:21 AM

Hello,
The development team generally does not release information on individual developments as they seem to cause too much speculation based on rumor and not facts. There is a roadmap on the site showing the development path. You can find it here https://ionomy.com/about/roadmap.
Thank you for contacting ionomy.com support.
Regards,
Dave

So all the information they are willing to provide potential investors is that of their very loose roadmap? Wonderful. Wonder why they then made this an open discussion thread and not just a closed announcement page?

To be honest I think they underestimated how hostile the reception to anything even remotely xpy related would be. They seem to trade mostly based on their reputation amongst a very select little band of ex-xpy holders, and I guess they thought the goodwill would just transfer over to the wider community. If they had been open and honest and answered questions actively in this thread early on then it most likely wouldn't have turned into the 80+ pages of largely daft speculation that it has, but sadly they chose not to which instead makes them look shady almost by default. This inability to control the information coming out of their organisation makes it look far worse than it probably is, and the fact that they try and divert people to slack, where the reception to people asking questions has been questionable at times and the main thread is often full of gifs and random clique-y banter doesn't help matters.

Unfortunately the whole situation has somewhat backfired on them now. Any serious investors who want to research ion will be confronted by this thread and the main GAW thread and will most likely be put off. Given the rather tenuous grasp on good PR practices that they've displayed thus far, I would be surprised if there was more than a couple of thousand downloads for any game they release, if they even manage to get as far as any of the app stores.

They spent too much time in their various echo chambers that they forgot what would happen here. That plus they can use us "fudding" them us evidence back in their echo chamber about how we are out to get them. It's a play straight out of a familiar playbook.

I think its more that they didn't realise that people are largely still very suspicious of anything related to XPY, and rightly so given whats gone before. The multiple groups involved and the highly confusing timeline of events and varying controlling parties for XPY also mean that people don't just intrinsically know that XPY.io was apparently separate from the XPY dev team, for example, which is a simple issue that has lead to massive misunderstandings. They seemed to rock up here and expect that everyone would be aware of this without it being very clearly explained. The fact that they have largely been silent throughout really hasn't helped matters.