A final summary, as the statements cannot be left as you have made them.
HG (as a group of several people, not a single one) denied your proposal because it was not possible to verify any of your metrics and you didn’t fulfill agreements that were made, summary:
- We have a few people that tried the game every few months, no one noticed any game updates. (Perhaps you made some bug fixes, but definetly no new content in about 15 months)
- You didn’t provide, as requested, a list of the 700 game-updates you talked about and we already noticed lots of these “updates” are just bot commits.
- Playerbase is not organic and most wallets you provided never called any l2e contract.
- Social media is inactive since launch (twitter, tg, discord).
- Based on dappradar land of clans has no players on wax.
- Social media of land of clans is more active on posts, but also has no community interactions.
- Aurora launch never happened.
- The game itself actually has no NEAR integration, just a single method “rand”. (Not important to this topic, but wanted to mention it)
- Some “facts” you present are just eyewashing and are actually not true when checked (Not important to this topic, but it’s annoying and will scare away investors)
Some of these concerns not just came up by the HG team, but also other people from the community.
On top of it you started to attack and insult someone else personally just because you don’t like the decision that has been made based on given facts (which we actually tried to discuss and resolve with you - but you didn’t want to), which is an inacceptable behavior.
My personal note: You got like ~$180.000 just from HG/NF to develop YOUR project (+ even more from WAX?). HG and NF did a lot to help but in the end its your project and your community.
If you decide you don’t care about your community it’s your decision and not someone else, so you should stop to find excuses and toweling off your responsibility for YOUR project.
Instead you should work with your community, make general metrics more transparent & comprehensible and work on a concept to make your project sustainable (I am sure HG people would gladly help to work out some concepts and ideas), so it doesn’t depend on a new grant each year.
Of course we wish you good luck and hope that you push your project forward. Also as cloudmex-alan suggested: “If the game is as good as you mention” you should be able to find other sources of funding and try your best.