1. Your news posting states that '(...)Dynamight retains ownership of the IP and creative control over Fractured Online(...)', but MGI's financial report claims '(...)Gamigo has acquired the worldwide IP rights for PC and console(...)'. Given that intentional misinformation towards shareholders in a financial report has serious legal consequences, which of these statements is correct and would you be willing to sign a legally binding contract with your customers (us) that assures us DS retains full and sole ownership of worldwide IP?

2. What are the constraints to financial support in the contract with Gamigo? Is there a time limit, is there a concrete investment, does it permit seeking outside funding? To be more concrete, what happens if Gamigo decides the game's to be released now and simply cuts the money for development. That would mean a considerable dent in 'creative control', right?

3. Would you be willing to include a paragraph into the ToS of purchasing a pledge package that grants the customer a full refund at any time, in case that the game goes free to play? Since you don't plan to change the monetization model, this should be a non issue and would help mitigate a lot of peoples worries.

@Prometheus said in Relaunch Pretest Start Day Revealed:

(...)a time-limited test(...)

Could you please clarify this paragraph of the announcement:
'(...)After reviewing user feedback, following up on it and further tuning client and server performance (if needed), Fractured Online will be back 24/7, with no more wipes planned. That’s going to be the proper relaunch(...)'

Is the game going to launch/be persistent without the following items:

• Tartaros/Demons
• Wolf/Bear-Kin
• Religion (including the quests for transformation)
• Democratic voting system for Arboreus
• @OlivePit's weed, sorry, I meant 'third crops' and weather affecting harvest
• Kickstarter rewards (VIP, Carpenter, name reservation, blueprints, character slots)
• interactive environment
• Steam

I am worried that several of these points alienate a part of the community (e.g. PvP players would be 'forced' to either start on Syndesia, leading to issues with their desired playstyle, or wait till month after launch where others have a massive head-start with the now tilted vertical progression), have a serious impact on balance/progress (e.g. city upkeep and city voting would mean you build something and suddenly loose it later on due to changed circumstances), or were used as incentive to generate revenue (name reservation/character slots/VIP) and could lead to disappointment.

Furthermore, could you please update us on the promised AMA, the video(s) and a new roadmap?

And last, but not least, as always, thank you for your time and effort.

[Edit: Included Steam on the list, since I'm sure persistence without being on Steam first would lead to rather negative feedback/reviews. Yes, Steam users could play through the custom launcher, but they decided to buy the game via Steam for a reason]

I'd rather they spend their time on developing a great game, especially scoring well on the upcoming stress test is going to be crucial. When there's less urgent issues during Beta, sure, they could devote some time and effort to adding a couple more rewards.

Shouldn't all of that be discussed in about 2-4 years when the core game is finished, released, works successfully and a list of next features to implement is compiled and evaluated? The risk of feature creep in software development is real.

@Yitra said in Statement on the Gamigo-rumors:

(...)If Dynamight is ready and able to share, I like to see a message of them(...)

Which is why this thread was created, to raise their awareness of the situation and to get a response by the only people knowing what's really happening.

I'm glad that SpatialOS is spawning a lot of innovative games lately and I'm certainly going to keep an eye on Fractured MMO. For all we know right now, my favorite race would likely be the Wolf-Kin if I manage to find enough like minded people to be in a proper pack
Then again, the Bear-Kin and the Hart-Kin would have a certain appeal as well as the 'basic good old human'.
And that's it for now! (More to come later, depending on how things develop)

@PricelessShingle54 said in gamigo Data Transfer:

@Crucifixx not necessarily... idk man lets see what happens

Yeah, as a very first step to instill confidence, a publisher, that has a seriously bad reputation with the gaming community, chooses to remove the protection granted by EU law and instead move the data and jurisdiction to the United States. If you don't want your rights to be be removed and your data to be sold, tough luck, no refunds for you.
But this move is certainly required to 'operate the game', because, yeah well... because!

I'm backer number 123 and currently went with early bird Recruit (20 €), but consider going up early bird Patron (90 €). I simply haven't decided yet.

There are a couple of German players, I'm sure some of them are going to invite you to 'German speaking groups'. So, welcome to Fractured, and I hope you're going to enjoy your time here!

@VyrVandalous said in Funding:

(...)I personally think they should be over the 2-3 million Euro point by now(...)

The company does have investors and 'other means of funding'. While I agree that the Kickstarter should have raised more money, I suppose that once we hit Alpha 1/2 and some videos of actual gameplay hit the net, we're going to see a higher influx of paying customers.

@VyrVandalous said in Funding:

(...) think options such as Auctions and some more pay options should be included here in the game in order to ensure it's long term survival.

You have some cosmetics and a VIP subscription that you can purchase for a steady income to the company.

@spoletta said in Store & Launcher Download Ready!:

If you are referring to me(...)

I was not. I was referring to the user that was supporting 'certain actions' (a bit difficult to express without 'political discussion').

@spoletta said in Store & Launcher Download Ready!:

(...)I would kindly ask you to not twist my words from "I believe in the positive effects of dialogue between countries" (...) That was also a personal view on this issue that I shared with you outside the bounds of my duty as a moderator, because I thought of you as a friend after all this time spent together on this project(...)

As stated, I do not think that you support war crimes, I said that the moderation decisions side with people who do. I can fully understand that you want to encourage and create a place where everybody can feel secure and welcome, but I do not want to be part of a space where people that support malicious real life actions feel save and welcome. Not because of their origin, but because of their actions. As for your quote, it's not an actual quote from the conversation, but, as you said, you provided a personal view and as such I'm going to keep it private.

@spoletta said in Store & Launcher Download Ready!:

(...)Political discussions are banned by rule(...)

I ensured that there was no such rule mentioned on the Discord posting before engaging the conversation. Non of the 11 rules mentions politics (or, didn't at that time).

@spoletta said in Store & Launcher Download Ready!:

(...)f you have any complaints about the way I moderate this forum and the discord you are welcome to forward your complaints to the devs(...)

I did, thanks for the advice.

@MrFlako said in Store & Launcher Download Ready!:

(...)you're also prob from California.

I'm German. For nearly a century I have been told that Germans have been complicit in actions I can not mention without delving into politics because they enabled these actions by remaining silent. Even if it hurts me personally, I can not remain silent and do not accept the fact that claiming a certain decision by Gamigo was the best (and only good) decision by that company is now condemned as 'hate speech' by the very same moderation team that signed a contract with Gamigo and that has been previously defending that very decision back when it was obviously not 'hate speech'.

@Prometheus said in Store & Launcher Download Ready!:

(...)the store is open(...)

I wish you the best of luck and hope you succeed, but, unless moderation changes, I can no longer morally and financially support the game in good faith, as long as it sides with people supporting war crimes.
I would have never imagined me saying this, but I wish Gamigo would be back. It is astonishing to me that the same moderators that worked under Gamigo and signed contracts with that company, now blame supporting Gamigo's only reasonable decision, something they defended while working under Gamigo, something that goes in line with European law and political consensus, as 'hate speech'.

Pity, I was looking forward to playing/testing in the next few days.

'the whole game' *chuckles at @Junkie *

I am noise.

@Caev said in Relaunch Pretest Start Day Revealed:

Are servers going to be US based or ...?

As far as we've been told, servers would most likely be US based for now, but DS has started experiments testing ping difference with EU based servers. Depending on the results (including of this stress test), they are probably evaluating the situation. The great point about their current setup is that they could easily run one continent on an EU server and another on an US server (3 continents per planet have always been planned) and you could simply travel between them 'by harbor' in game. Just an idea from my side though.

Loving it how some questions get instant answers and some never.

So much to do.

@Prometheus said in Relaunch Pretest Start Day Revealed:

(...)a time-limited test(...)

Could you please clarify this paragraph of the announcement:
'(...)After reviewing user feedback, following up on it and further tuning client and server performance (if needed), Fractured Online will be back 24/7, with no more wipes planned. That’s going to be the proper relaunch(...)'

Is the game going to launch/be persistent without the following items:

• Tartaros/Demons
• Wolf/Bear-Kin
• Religion (including the quests for transformation)
• Democratic voting system for Arboreus
• @OlivePit's weed, sorry, I meant 'third crops' and weather affecting harvest
• Kickstarter rewards (VIP, Carpenter, name reservation, blueprints, character slots)
• interactive environment
• Steam

I am worried that several of these points alienate a part of the community (e.g. PvP players would be 'forced' to either start on Syndesia, leading to issues with their desired playstyle, or wait till month after launch where others have a massive head-start with the now tilted vertical progression), have a serious impact on balance/progress (e.g. city upkeep and city voting would mean you build something and suddenly loose it later on due to changed circumstances), or were used as incentive to generate revenue (name reservation/character slots/VIP) and could lead to disappointment.

Furthermore, could you please update us on the promised AMA, the video(s) and a new roadmap?

And last, but not least, as always, thank you for your time and effort.

[Edit: Included Steam on the list, since I'm sure persistence without being on Steam first would lead to rather negative feedback/reviews. Yes, Steam users could play through the custom launcher, but they decided to buy the game via Steam for a reason]

@Junkie said in Daily Message posting:

servers when

Hopefully not this month! I've got a bet running with @Rife.

Jumped by a red Tree Hugger while killing a dragon. What has this world evolved to... ^^