Okay!!!
Lets try to bring this all together and clarify my position.
MA rewarded ambassadors that had promoted Entropia at the International Science Festival with a meal and a few drinks.
Miss Skam, who was present, posted a small article about the event. I have absolutely no problem with this (other than possibly the "in the presence of greatness" tone applied to JWT's attendance
) nor with those who applauded her efforts.
The issue arose when the posts congratulating
MA on this magnanimous gesture started rolling in.
I am sorry, but I would expect nothing less. The ambassadors gave up their time free of charge to promote a product that
MA make money from. Inviting them for a meal and a few drinks while at the same time dishing out a few thousand peds, which will ultimately end up back in the game, is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of employing people to stand up for 10+ hours a day.
Does anyone really think that
MA courted and promoted Entropia to the Chinese and CK by dishing out ped cards worth a couple of thousand dollars???
The ambassadors love the game and are very loyal to it. As are all hard core, dyed in the wool, Entropians. However. there are times when this loyalty becomes unbelievably stupid and this was one of those times.
This was not an option for
MA, it was full blown obligation and had they not made this gesture they would have been abusing that loyalty. So lets not get carried away with the praise.
We also learn that JWT attended and shared his visions and ideas for the future. Now I have no doubt this was fascinating and that he has a vivid imagination but I am a little tired of hearing about the future when the game has so many unresolved issues affecting it right now. As I hinted at in my original post, a good magician will always divert your attention away from what he does not want you to see. So it was very disappopinting to hear Miss Skam report that when she had tried to ask about current issues, at a gathering where you might just think
MA would lighten up a bit, she still got the "no comment" response. At no time did I criticise her for failing to get further information as she seems to think.
It is all very well building the game up as a fantastic adventure for the future but if you ignore the foundation on which it is to be built then it is very quickly going to collapse especially when
MA, as a very small fish in a very big pond, has ambitions, in the form its IPO, to move out to deep water and swim with the sharks.