Since I occasionally get likes on my Fer,al art, I felt like I had to make a post about the current situation. Wildworks, the company behind Animal Jam and Fer,al, has been using Fer,al for 2 whole years to make a block-chain and NFT based game called Cinder. they are reusing all the assents of Fer,al. Cinder will be released next year while Fer,al is still currently in BETA.
I cannot support this and will therefore put my fer,al characters on hold until they've been redesigned and assigned to another universe. I will no longer be playing this game. more of my thoughts under the cut
Edit: Sorry, I wrote this post in a blind rage and messed up NFT as UFT KFLJADSKLFDSJA
Edit 2: Here is a Toyhou.se forum post explaining more coherently what happened
I am absolutely livid. At first when I discovered they were making a game based around NFTs I was like.... upset, made a post about it, and waited for updates... while also just kind of lurking in the discord for all the tea. But then the more I learned about the AMA, wildwork's past and.... saw on the actual CINDER site they've been using OUR MONEY AND EXPERIENCES to TEST their NFT game, I started losing it.
Brother when I was 13 I LITERALLY only played Animal Jam to find all the animal facts and like... learn about animal conservation. then after that was done I was no longer interested in the game. And now I'm finding out the SAME company used MY money to... build THIS?
And the responses of the mods literally are so insane too. the fucking MENTAL GYMNASTICS they do to JUSTIFY the choice they've made. it's insane....! I mean, take a look at all of this.
"you use discord and have lights in your house, therefore a little bit of NFT here and there is ok." That's like saying my GRANDMA is to blame for NFTs... and she doesn't even own a COMPUTER.
"We've listened to in-game feedback a bunch before, we can't comply to every request!" KING, IDK HOW TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT THIS HAS A LARGER IMPACT THAN SOME GAME BUGS.
and then the last one speaks for itself. absolutely bonkers. I'm so fucking livid... I don't even have words for how used I feel and how poorly the staff handles this. This was the first game I felt comfortable enough for to pay for a season pass and other in game things....
I'm simply... at a loss. I'm so glad the community is largely on the same boat as I am... so I hope Cinder flops. but this is absolutely disgusting.
anyone else think it's kind of weird that ww keeps describing cinder repeatedly with words like native and tribe and evoking imagery of entering a new mystical world and shaping it. why are they doing that
funny how they will call the new game cinder.io when Fer.al’s version of Halloween where evil magic is powerful is called “cindernoct” like… cmon of course your new endeavor is evil.
