Quote from: Sukrim on June 05, 2013, 06:19:49 PM

Hm, maybe a differently worded question: Which kind of games shall this business produce? Gambling aka. games of luck? Games based on skill? Feeding alpacas on your little farm with carrots that you bought for Bitcoins in a microtransaction and posting every fart of said animals on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, the hidden wiki and Bitmessage?

I'm not sure the distinction you propose makes any sense. Is WoW a game of luck or a game of skill by your definition? Sure, skill plays some part, in that if you can't play you can't play. Discipline also plays a part, in the sense that if you spend 10x as long farming you can more or less do what other, more skilled people do anyway. Finally, luck certainly plays a part, as in you get whatever rare drops on the first try, other skilled people spend a year farming for.

More importantly, why is it so important to establish conceptually what is or isn't a game? If people play it, that's all it takes (also known as the "I know it when I see it" legal standard).

Quote from: Sukrim on June 05, 2013, 06:19:49 PM

Just as a benchmark: Anyone raising more than 100k EUR in my country has to publish a prospectus (which is causing quite a few discussions atm. as businesses want to collect money without telling their investors what's going to happen with it) - your IPO is for ~1 million EUR and will even be considered failed if you "only" raise 100k EUR in BTC.

There is absolutely no EUR involved in S.MG so all this is about as relevant as the weather.

Quote from: Sukrim on June 05, 2013, 06:19:49 PM

Outlining the business plan and idea a bit more concretely is something that can be expected for these sums I guess.

From what I gather the thinking here is that nobody is ever convinced by more text. People go by the names involved, and possibly, sometimes, maybe, by a fifty word blurb. If that's not good enough then it's just not good enough; the asking for more text is basically an invitation to roleplay "Internet Businessmen, the MMO" on whatever forum. I don't think MP has any patience for that.

Quote from: bitcoinbear on June 05, 2013, 08:26:29 PM

Why the personal hatred towards MP? The MPOE stock seems to be doing just fine, I don't know where you get the idea that his "bazaar" is starting to collapse?

That little bit of wishful thinking "idea" has been hot since the days zhoutong wasn't even a thing yet.

Quote from: Omen1855 on June 05, 2013, 10:29:54 PM

At least it's a stock that is not at the meta-level of bitcoin. Seriously, we need more of these than just yet another mining bond or exchange.

Now if MP just wouldn't piss off developers on a regular basis I might invest

For my curiosity, make a list of ten companies where management regularly pissed off developers versus ten companies where management regularly catered to developers and then compare their business results. I'll even contribute a starting name for each list: EA and 3D Realms (Apogee Software) respectively.