I don't see why he would spend development time building a new cryptocurrency when he could leverage an existing one instead.

http://cryptocurrencymagazine.com/bitcrystals-price

Free Press in Japan! Talking about BCY rocketing I assume? Cannot read Japanese but it does look good.

The comparison isn't really fair though. Riot has thousands of employees and billions of dollars in investor money (and profits). Their esports cost them money but they treat it as a way to advertise the game and build longevity to the brand.


That being said their world championships are always impressive. I know in 2014 they sold out a 45,000 seat auditorium for the finals in Korea and in 2015 there was a viewership of 35 million people.


I'm well aware that people always have the mentality of the "next world of warcraft" or the "next league of legends" but such comparisons are neither realistic nor are they particularity helpful. A better example or goal would be Path of Exile. They are a team of developers who got impatient waiting for a 'real' diablo game (they hated diablo 3 and felt it was too focused on casual gamers) so they started their own company and built the game from the ground up. Their game is very much targeted at niche groups (it's VERY unforgiving to new players and requires a lot of math and theory crafting to be successful) but because they have stuck so closely to their initial goals and done such a great job at building their community, their game is worth many millions of dollars now.

The core idea is very much the same idea as project rebirth. We are developers who truly and un-ironically enjoyed conquer online but feel that the company that owns the IP has managed it in a horrible way and that the core game mechanics can be pushed so much further. We've done a lot with apex and will do even more with heroes to push the game mechanics in new and exciting directions but rebirth is very much the same driving concept as Path of Exile had in regards to Diablo. Take what you like about the genre and do it really, really well. Don't try to make a billion dollar game, try to make something that tens or hundreds of thousands of players will desperately want.

Don't try to make a billion dollar game, try to make something that tens or hundreds of thousands of players will desperately want.

How much did each of those people pay to get there? 

The next league style mmo can be around the corner and this dev could be the one to do it. Of course he probably is not but dont forget that there is lots of room for many new games and for that om sure this dev will do good and make lots of profit.

What are the chances that Chris makes a game as popular as LoL? Any pro gamers here care to share your wisdom.
What are the chances that Chris builds a semi decent game that gets some world wide use.
what are the chances that Chris belllyflops and makes the worst game ever.

Id like some realistic possible predictions if anyone has some.

Chris stated Heroes server will open as soon as possible, after ICO closes. He said it won't be September 1st, though the plan is to open it during first week. Server is already open for testing pourpose, but all characters will be reset. That's why a few of us are playing on Apex meanwhile.

It is a very nice op, one of the best I've seen for an ico project in a while.

Hey Chris. Is Hero's almost ready for its official launch?

Yes, he's gone missing before AND come back, so if he does
come back with a new wallet it would be HUGE for Hyper, and
the price would go way up... That's what I'm hoping for anyway.

As for the RAM problem, I just run the wallet once every
week or two, while i'm sleeping.  The coins will stake overnight.
Then i join the staked coins back together with coin control, and
close the wallet.  Using blocks of about 1000 coins is good i think.

What is Jewels jwl?

That really doesn't have anything to do with being a mod there or not though.. Hacks will always be developed and keeping an eye on the communities that develop them gives a good insight into how to best secure your project.

Being involved in their community means that most of the knowledgeable members have enough respect for my projects that they dont wish to interfere with them. The fact is that our existing client protection already has proven incredibly effective at blocking common methods of cheating/hacking/botting. If a new cheat was released that worked on our server we would simply update our protection to react.

It's worth also keeping in mind that if it was posted on epvp I'd be aware of the cheat much earlier than I would otherwise and could develop protection necessary. Private non-distributed bots are where things would be harder to protect against and being a mod wont interfere with that.

That's an interesting point, SoG cards are digital there are no printed copies, not sure if that'll change in the future but as far as I know you will be able to purchase cards in-game, non blockchain-based cards.
I guess that feature will work via the Apple and Google stores.

You can already buy blockchain-based cards via real life vendors who use swapbots to do so, also can be bought on the Counterparty Dex, and the first webstore has turned up at https://sogbazaar.com.
I assume we will see more options for people to be able to buy SoG cards including blockchain-based ones with various payment methods.

Read the thread man. It won't be a refund.

If the majority votes "no" implying that they wish to be refunded then Jewels project will not proceed and we will begin the process of issuing a refund of all BTC.

Jewels are a virtual currency. If virtual currencies aren't real money explain why Charlie Shrem and the creator of egold landed in jail.


When you grow up you'll understand that people use lawyers all the time from buying property to setting up businesses to resolving contentious matters to dealing with divorce etc. Your "only million dollar busimesses use lawyer" stance may be true in hollywood movies but this is not hollywood. Beside if you actually read what I said instead of throwing your uninformed opinion around you would know that what I recommand OP is not to bother with the legal process but use smart contracts to get rid of the problem altogether.

At any rate you are entitled to your opinion however uninformed and naive it may be, but I don't really care what you think. It's to OP I am talking here.

I haven't said no MMO is doing any sort of gambling. Whether a game has in-game gambling or not is not the point. The point is whether they use real-money or not. The vast majority are not real money MMOs and don't explicitely allow players to withdraw their gambling gains and convert them to cash. There are always players who trade ingame money for real money on the black market but since its explicitely disallowed in terms and conditions, this isn't under the responsibility of the game company unless it can be proven that they knew about it and didn't do anything to prevent it. Real money MMOs hat involve gambling are another problem entirely, and companies that develop them do consult lawyers and do the necessary things to make sure they remain on the right side of regulation. And if they don't they are just exposing themselves to future liability. Some businesses are careless and it costs them dearly in the end: see what happened to intrade. Most are doing the right thing and getting legal advice and setting up things to be legal.

I don't know Neopet but if it targets 8~14 I'd be surprised if they allow players to convert their winnings to real money, and if they do they must have run that through a lawyer and/or setup shop in a jurisdiction where unlicensed gambling is legal.

Generally, don't just assume things are trivial because the legal work is not visible from your consumer perspective. I too see many shops selling alcohol, but it doesn't mean that they haven't done their job and applied for a license to sell alcohol.

So your plan is "other people are doing it and not getting bust (yet) so it must be legal"? I get that Steam and Counterstrike are also doing something similar (albeit not the same) but I can guaranty you that Valve has got that through an army of lawyers before making this move and for all we know it's possible that they decided to operate the gambling business using an offshore company. Have you really checked what they did?

If you want to grow this business to a many million dollars business (that's the assumption here given your are raising funds), you have to be sure it's sustainable. There are two ways of doing that: consulting with a lawyer specialized in gambling regulation (and spend a lot of moneyband waste a lot of time and in the end probably end up with the embarassing realization that gambling in any form is illegal without a license) or getting rid entirely of the problem by moving the gambling operation out of your jurisdiction by either making an offshore company (again costly and time consumming) or much more effectively by encoding it in a smart contract.

I really insist that you have to have a plan on that. You can probably get away for a while doing like other Conquer servers that do gambling because that's a too small operation to draw the attention of regulators which is the real reason other Conquer servers have survived to date (note that I am not suggesting that you to do that, this is still illegal, just reflecting on the assumption you are probably going to do that anyway). But you have to have a more solid plan to scale legally if/when the business becomes too big to be ignored and you should be executing on that plan all along as it takes time to put things in place. I may be repeating myself but using smart contracts would get you rid of the problem entirely, and it only takes a moderately skillful developer with some knowledge of smart contracts (can learn Solidity in a couple of days) to crank a simple gambling contract and be done with the issue.

All PoS coins work the same. "Proof of Stake." Probably best for you to read up on it to get a better understanding, as there's way too much to type here.

And he's gone MIA in the past but not for this long.

Yes, we planned on doing that anyways.

While unclear at this time as to whether we'll be hosting any events directly after the ICO finishing as we feel first it would be best to let the market reach an equilibrium before giving out Jewels as prizes - this is partially why there is a lack of bounties. What is clear is that there will definitely be events in the future on Heroes that will offer this as well as other prizes.

We're considering going for a second round of discussion over on Beyond Bitcoin as that will be the week after we're completed the ICO however we're unsure at this time what are objectives going into the second discussion are. I'll discuss with Chris whether if he feels next weeks hang out would be a good point in time to start talking about his ideas for the future

Join us on Slack, we'd love to talk to you about your own ideas there!