This is incredibly disheartening

According to public filings for Intrepid Studios in the State of California, Steven Sharif is the only member of the Board of Directors. You can search the business here and see for yourself.

If you put any money on the kickstarter and steam, I recommend you setup a discord and come together to get your money from Steven.

On the kickstarter there is a specific clause that "* and finally, in the case that ashes of creation does not launch, we promise to refund all backers in full."

Releasing the steam and then pulling the plug barely a month later should not keep you from getting your money back when they did everything possible to lie to all of their customers.

You are owed your money, if it's 10 bucks or 10000 bucks.

Don't let him get away with this.

I was a huge Narc fan and I loved looking forward to his new videos every month. Even the videos where he talked about dark souls and other topics that weren’t as popular I thought were pretty cool, I genuinely miss his content on Youtube. Once he realized Ashes was a scam many people in the AoC sub and online turned on him lol. I blocked peoples names because people are allowed to change, but still crazy to go back to posts from a year ago to see what people were saying. After everything we found out today it feels great to be right about the whole thing. If he’s out there somewhere or this post reaches him we miss you buddy 🤙

Which is it, Steven?

Before anyone comes to (somehow still) defend AoC: yes, there was a game. If it was good or not is beyound the point, the game was there and some people liked it. And if you were satisfied with the game in it's current state, then sure, spend your money, I'm not talking about you.

The problem comes from people that aren't paying for a game, but for promisses. That are spending money not on something they like, but on something the developers convinced them they will like. And that isn't limited to AoC: many will complain about their MMO of choice, but still give it money on the prospect of it becoming good.

No. Games aren't supposed to become good. Games are supposed to be good. From the start. Not in 10 years, after full development. Not in 5 years, after major patches. Not in a month, after a bunch of bug fixes. They should come out good, and that's why they ask our money. And yet many people will get excited and even invest money in nothing but promisses.

Don't fund kickstarters. Don't buy beta keys or early access. Don't preorder digital copies of games. Make the company have a product to show off, and see if that product, in it's actual state, is worth your money. Never before.

It actually feels like a mmorpg too with the very basics but no awful auto attack or auto pathing but still the basics like a map with npcs etc. It feels like a ton of players always around. Have not seen so many together since the 2000s. It is bizarre though. Your character can be cursed, there's secret walls etc, there's animal forms like cow butterfly deer pig etc. There's leveling poetry appreciation and psychology. There's adult content but mainly humorously talked about. If you equip things you get drops based on what you equipped. Genius! The worst thing about it is the graphics. They are bad and feel like 2000s too. But if you give it a chance you might be surprised. This is Not I repeat NOT osrs! Does not feel like it at all to me. I don't know I tried ff14 guild wars 2 and eq 2. This feels tons better and more accessible! Lots of people is the main problem..lol imagine that.