CONCERN FOR THE DAPP'S SUSTAINABLITY; SHOULD DRUGWARS BE A DIDACTIC LESSON?

in #steem7 years ago (edited)

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It's no news that Drugwars which occupied the top rankings on the #stateofthedapps is diving deep beneath, and literarily it seems as if they've dug their own grave, but one thing I'll like to point out is that we've seen that the sustainablility of the dapps cannot be reliant on @ned's 39 million sp lying in the hands of @misterdelegation in other to be functional, this was proven by the disastrous downfall of Dsound and Musing.io and obviously Dlive predicted was fortunate enough to bail (not that we loved how they bailed) but sometimes I think they know that centralised sustainability may just be their end because they couldn't have matched up or met up to dtube's standards I'n all fairness.
The the truth is that drugwars may be a ponzi, but no one cared, since they were making steem and getting steem and this systematic ability is the reason why drugwars topped the rankings, I know so many people who loved drugwars expecially @themarkymark @exyle and my good friend @streetstyle and I'll really love to hear their opinion as to why Drugwars is adopting "FUTURE" a futuristic token that's quite a little bit uncertain.

My angle of writing this is very simplistic; drugwars couldn't maintain their sustainability for long and currently I can't fault them for this, they built an amazing DAPP and qudos needs to be given to @hightouch and his Dev guys, but like @rok-sivante once said, sometimes we need to learn how not to run a DAPP rather than how to run a DAPP, the truth was that people accepted it's pattern of sustainability when it started and inasmuch as they didn't update people maybe one week earlier about "FUTURE" I'll definitely say it wasn't really compulsory to put money and I'll definitely deduce from this by saying people didn't ask the right questions when drugwars kicked in and if they had done they won't put in what they can't afford to lose afterall you can loose with MAGDICE and still continue playing the game, it all boils down to the fact that drugwars is an amazing DAPP with awesome concept, but they could've told people about their long term sustainability plans and people on the other hand should have known that drugwars is a gambling gaming DAPP, instead of building their lives investments on it like it's a sort of insurance, blockchain or bitcoin.

Truth is people aren't angry they lost money, they're angry that they saw drugwars as a means of doubling money and it went sour. All said and done, the blockchain isn't perfect, people like @acidyo spoke highly of this game and I believe it's not because it'll make people rich but because it'll bring or herald the future of gaming dapps on the steem blockchain, now dapps are in dangers both the self sustaining and the @ned's sustaining ones, because the two types of sustainability shows uncertainty as to what level they'll reach before they become unviable, that's why I'm saying we haven't still found the best way to keep the dapps lucrative and functional for let's say a life span of 25 years without a glitch, maybe the SMT? I don't still think so, truth is I don't think the DAPPs is the SMT primary aim, the dapps needs a less decentralized and a less centralised method of sustainability and it could take long for prospective DAPP owners to develop this formula, and as for drugwars, I'm saying they're down, but who knows they may not be out who knows?

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@josediccus, I will leave you here a reply I gave to an angry 'investor' - there is a tendency on the internet to be bipolar, to shout jubilantly (ref link marketing) one day and RAGE furiously the next, neither of which is conducive to smart thinking, much less investing. From this post I responded:

While we are on the topic, and at risk for soaking up the ire of an entire generation of steemians, why anyone thought it was a good idea to 'invest' in this game is beyond me, and (buyer beware) they probably deserve to get soaked. I mean, broncnuts was posting about how he was hiring his employees to play drugwars because the ROI was so high! 11 days later he was rage smashing the drugwars posts.

Now, I do think 'mistakes were made' is probably an understatement, and I do wish that the top crypto app in the world, which happens to be on STEEM, our blockchain, had thought a little bit more about PR. But y'all are spewing so much negativity that I just have to shed a little bit of reality here (if everyone was being more reasonable I could probably make a few criticisms of my own).

I had a long talk with Hightouch yesterday about game mechanics, which I hope to getting around to making a post about, and it is very clear to me that they are VERY interested in making a good game. I hope, above anything, that the game continues to improve.

I don't have to hope that people learn a lesson about 'investing', because I think that already happened.

Making a game 'live' with a bunch of screaming children 'investing' has got to be one of the hardest things in the world to do. I don't know why they chose to do it this way (although, if any publicity is good publicity, and their number one spot on state of the dapps says anything, maybe they are smarter than we think), and maybe they wouldn't do it the same way again. But so many people are off the reservation with rage that its hard not to defend the dev team just as an act of centrism.

Gaming is not investing. Never has been, never will be. That some people 'made money' does not change the fact that no one was ever going to pay their bills with this game.

You will notice that the angriest people also promoted this game with their referral links. Shaking my head....

What an amazing reply buddy, that definitely sums it all, people who seems to be enjoying how drugwars were are the one's that seems to be complaining now, it's not a means of livelihood it's only a game and I think they need to understand this to find closure really.

I am a bit disappointed with Drugwars, not because of Steem spent or lost but because they plan to go off chain from Steem....
Feels like the dlike debacle.

We’ll see if the Futureshock team burned their cryptobridge or if it stands and we all get to the “otherside” together. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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I think they they've released another statement saying they're going to definitely stay by all means really, however I think they should've been smarter than DLIVE or musing.io

Certainly agree that @drugwars doing it the better way

It really comes down to the pure lack of developmentfrom steemit the company still. They have had and spent millions and over a year later we still don't have smt like wtf seriously

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