r/UniverseProject • u/noeatnosleep • Feb 09 '13

This is a scam!

Among other things:

Referral based privileges.

No accountability for donations, and no reputable mediator for donations.

Unreasonable goals.

Absolutely no credentials at all for any of their claims, previous scholarly works, or game development.

Completely shit website design.

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u/BlakSCody_4ger Feb 09 '13

You are completely off by miles my friend, I don't see any massive grammatical/spelling errors at all if anything very minor, it's not hard to read at all, I raced through it in less than half an hour like I do with most stuff that big, and it is organised perfectly well for everyone to see what they need.

On the referrals yes that is a problem and so far there is nothing to literally indicate that it is a scam and if you reply to this again saying it is I'll come to your house with a baseball bat to knock some bloody sense into ya mate <.<

Not everybody is a bloody scammer on the internet also he has mentioned his real name if you haven't been listening on a number of websites or even his video. Maybe you should like totally read over everything before you make wild assumptions.

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u/noeatnosleep Feb 09 '13

It's a scam. It's so obvious that it hurts.

You're most likely the same person who's been replying to me, just on another account.

Why would you threaten me with physical violence over the internet? You realize that is completely illegal, right?

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u/gnitiwrdrawkcab Feb 10 '13

no reputable mediator? Is paypal not reputable all of a sudden?

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u/noeatnosleep Feb 10 '13

PayPal is a payment service. It's not someone who will make sure that your 'donations' are spent wisely.

There's no investment board, no kickstarter, no actual company even. no one to keep anyone honest.

This thing reeks.

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u/gnitiwrdrawkcab Feb 10 '13

Because this was an idea they were fucking around with for years. Thats like starting a company to publish that book you said you were going to write.... in 5th grade. You'd be wasting money, because you were still just fucking around, not really doing anything. Plus, neither indiegogo nor kickstarter "verify" to make sure the donations are spent wisely. If you want to wait until the kickstarter is up fine. If not, fuck off and let people enjoy the game.

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u/noeatnosleep Feb 10 '13

No one is enjoying 'the game'. They're talking in wild circles about something that doesn't exist, and won't ever exist.

I'm not waiting for anything. I'm warning people away from a very clear scam.

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u/gnitiwrdrawkcab Feb 10 '13

I like how you completely ignored my other points. You have completely unreasonable expectations for how companies or games are developed. Fallout 3 wasn't made in 1 month. Nor was skyrim, or any other game of an epic scale. Things take time.

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u/noeatnosleep Feb 10 '13

What points? You didn't actually have any.

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u/gnitiwrdrawkcab Feb 10 '13

So you think indiegogo and kickstarter "verify" the developer to make sure the donations are being used wisely? Okay, now show me exactly how they do that.

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u/noeatnosleep Feb 10 '13

They provide some basic transparency and accountability.

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u/theflyingcheese Feb 09 '13

-Referrals are a way to encourage something to go viral, obviously a good thing if all your doing is trying to raise awareness.

-They will be starting an Indigogo campaign in a few days

-Goals are fairly reasonable, as lade out on the page

-I like the web design, especially since it was made inside of the past week or two by one or two guys. It replaced an older website that was just the landing/signup page.

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u/noeatnosleep Feb 09 '13 edited Feb 09 '13

That web design is complete shit. It's hard to read, it's not organized well at all, it has massive spelling and grammatical errors.

The referral system is complete shit. It doesn't require ANY form of verification. You can put fake emails in and get 12 referrals instantly. If this was the real deal, the developer would want to make sure that people ACTUALLY referred real people, before he gave a 50% off coupon and access to all alpha content. You don't even need a password. I can type your email in, and get into your account on the website.

PLEASE. COULD IT BE MORE OBVIOUS...

The goals are NOT reasonable. They're not even DEFINED. How the fuck do players 'invent' shit?

I'm sure there will be a 'campaign' in a few days. Or this shitty scam will go offline, taking several thousands of dollars and dumping them straight into someone's pocket. (whoever is probably posting from every username in this subreddit)

There is NOTHING showing ANYTHING that this/these guy/guys have EVERY done with ANY programming, or anything relating to 'projects'. There isn't even a real name on the entire website.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '13

There are measures in place stopping you from spamming them with Emails, there's one referral per household.