Welcome to the thread, Sir Magyar. Want the
red pill or the
blue pill ?
Too bad I cannot qoute your original post, as so much got removed from it by the moderator.
But I have saved it as a screenshot. If you need it, just pm me.
85% of the thread are positive comments (
maybe take them as a thank you for the "list"), also the +Reps of the people that did not post in here, have short one-liners, backing up the things I do. The people appreciate, that there is someone, questioning such things in public and they even try to help, making this thread more accurate. They even discuss the matter in here.
In no way Im trying to educate. Im mentioning/listing and questioning things here. Also because I dont have enough background infos. And Id really like to know what others think about it. And you are welcome to post your thoughts as well.
I know officials will never ever comment in here, to itemise every single thing, due to "striclty internal business" or NDAs.
Now you come along, trying to tell everyone, that I am doing it wrong.
Maybe because you couldnt convince me with your pms (yet) ? Saaarrcaaaasssmmmmmm...
You tell me that I'll need a "introduction+thesis+support thesis etc.". Of course it
can make a post more enjoyable to read.
As you can SEE, not all people in this thread need an argumentative essay to read through the 1st post. Neither do I.
[I love chaos. ] The readers ask if something is unclear or support me with additional informations if needed. Sometimes I write like this and it still works, as you can SEE, Mr.Magygar.
You say there is no argumentative substance...did you even read through the initial post ?
Maybe parts of the "substance" might feel like wrapped riddles to you ?
(Which most of em actually are.)
Everybody has his own thoughts about the 1s post. Some already knew about it, others havent even heard about that. Some are interested and post then, others get bored and will ignore it. But there are actually people commenting, discussing, correcting and adding informations. Noone else came in here to tell me Im doing it wrong. Noone else came in here telling me to stop. (Except 1 neg rep I recieved, that adviced me to leave)
For example, it is a fact, that Michael Zolotas got hired by MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever and elected on 19 September 2011 as a Board member. He only stayed for 9 months. I cant go any deeper then this. But somehow my thought on it isnt that positive.
Im implying MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever was wasting usefull money on Michael Zolotas for example. Money, that could be used to pay some creative designers or community reps, that all got fired instead. (more or less)
(same counts for the castle in my opinion)
MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever had to cancel the "MindBank" thing, because they simply did not have enough money.
May I mention the ATM card advertisement-disaster or Dan Hunter in here ?
MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever hired Klas Moreau from (Sony) Ericcson. He wants to double the amount of entropia players in 2013. I asked if that sounds familar to the community. That shouldnt be MAs primary goal in my eyes ! Especially if they continue their current
MindArketing. This goal can only fail in my opinion then.
I imply, that the good people are long gone and that the rest is only trying to hold their heads above the water.
The annual reports just strengthen my thoughts. The advertisements about advertisements of advertisements, the broken promises, they all strengthen my thoughts. The officials will never admit that or claim the opposite. Of course not. They will continue to steer the ship through the iceberg field. As close to the icebergs as possible. And can you believe it, it actually seems to be working.
The things I posted might indeed lead to questions or an argumentation.
But...
I cant post more then I know.
I can only question the things that Im actually able find.
Then I will post. Facts and thoughts. (
even if they are already incomplete, because thats what MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever is sometimes as well...incomplete)
The problem here is, there is NOT always enough information about MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever and the things they do.
Hence the list. Maybe you`d like to help to complete it ?
No official will ever come along and clear things up. (thats why I mention these things) Which leads to another problem. I can only use the internet, this forum and people that add informations here. Nothing else. And sometimes its not even close to "thesis+etc.". Thats what a forum is for.
I tried to show up where MA
might have spent money on, that could possibly be better used on real good advertising/marketing or on professional ingame designers again (as the "old" ones got fired)
Its no secret the MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever failed with promises, has no real communications with the community and does "deals" with partners the suddenly dissapear and you never hear about again.
Sure, i could totally ignore all that, leave the "game" behind and go my way. But I dont. Im here, doing it my way. Like it or not, but Im doing it. Just like MindArk/BridgeInvestment/Whatever, just like everyone else in here.
Thank you.
p.s.
If you say the castle is offtopic, maybe you have additional informations about it that you might want to share with us ? If not, it will stay in here, until someone else comes along, that might have an answer to this "(Bridge)investment/german HQ/bank etc."...