Jesper

A billion USD is a lot. A much smaller amount would get you moving. Well, at least my person for sure. I know quite a bit about the background of SM. As for buying the game, basically I wouldn't buy it as a gamer, but as a private person. Alexander would work for me as a programmer. He knows the game so he is an obvious choice. As for upgrading the game. No new SM would take place. But adjustments would be made regularly to weapons, torsos, etc. Not once in 2-5 years. Discord and forum would be taken as a suggestion, I give him an order and he does it. Subsequently, an additional buff or nerf will be made. But he will also work hard on what is visible and what the community demands. If not, someone else will... 🤷‍♂️

So decide C) or D) 🤣😂
 
I more or less agree with what you wrote. How about we suggest to Alexander that we buy the game. And finally, something will start to be done about it. We can buy the game outright and pay someone to work on it. Or we will pay GATO and Alexander will work for us. I think he's a pretty good programmer, but he needs a firm hand over him. So that instead of writing and watching anime, he also works... 😛

There are a few potential problems with this:
1) You would still need to pay someone to be the CEO/CFO even if everyone bought the game.  For instance, Fender Musical Instruments is also employee-owned and they have an executive team.
2) You would need players with enough cash to buy out the shares and do this.  I don't think there are enough of these types.
3) You would need players to understand that buying shares and being part of the employee ownership program DOES NOT MEAN they get tokens or other in-game perks except maybe cosmetics.  Because if everyone comes into it with an entitlement attitude, everyone will just feed off the company until it dies.
4) You would need to then organize some sort of effort to hire programmers that are trustworthy.  Have fun with that.  Action script (Flash) is basically extinct.
5) You would need to buy out the company shares first, and then afterwards move the company towards employee ownership.  That's not just going to happen overnight.
6) You would need to do so before the real owner of the game (hint, not Alex) gets wind of it and folds the company.  We've never met this person: what if he doesn't want to give up SM?
7) It would need to be an international company.
8 )  You'd all need to be employees for it to be employee owned.  I think what you mean is player-owned.
9) You'd need some criteria for who is allowed to player-own shares and their conditions.  For instance, you'd be wise to specify that all those who own shares get to vote on company matters, and you'd also probably want to specify that those who don't vote for 3 consecutive quarters get fired and their shares refunded.
10) You'd need a vision for where this game is going.  And I'm going to be completely honest with you, where this game needs to go is SM3.  (SM1 being legacy and SM2 being current reloaded.)  And have fun trying to get everyone to agree about where this game is going.  It was difficult enough to get the balance team to agree on anything.
And no offense, but also given the SM universe "lore" (which there is hardly any), I don't think SM3 should incorporate ANY of the concepts in our current game.  I would say look outside the game for other concept games and use some of their general principles.  I could easily list like 20+ ideas on how to fix SM in terms of the overall gameplay but I don't want to "show my hand" because if I spill my ideas out here, someone could very well just steal them and create SM3 without me.
Instead, what I would want is this: if someone can give me $1B USD initial investment capital, I can buy out the name and then create a game that will be far more successful and lucrative.  But I would need this initial investment capital in order to get the ball rolling.  And I would also point out that the way I would fix SM would be to completely reinvent the game.
So my advice (sorry for necro-replying) is to just enjoy it until it folds.  I still recommend the game to parents with kids.  But no game lasts forever, and certainly not SM.  I am not saying SM is dying so much as I am saying SM is not eternal.

do not know. for sure need some small adds like L250 open to 1000 to have more progress and every 50 or 75 levels a nice grant of weapon or pick item in need. It was my thing and for 2 years waiting and is boring. use of silver coins options enhancing something else in the factory etc or exchange for gold relics or anything come to players mind that add sense. Sure, we need now to go back to portal and start to release few weapons I will say by October or so been 2 years. For pay to win, let's start to sale some items as before good weapons and of course some in the mid-range for starters low tokens. Few more tokens for starters so can motivate them to push. Also, there is low motivation with the top players and lower participation on the game. I can see that on my acc and is a lot lower of what I can see when I started.  Game is fine but need few things to make players a bit happier but also it is a business so no perfect world. 🤔🤷‍♂️🙂

I noticed that too. It will probably be due to the fact that at that time everyone or almost everyone still trusted what Alexander wrote. Now, with hindsight, it is obvious that he made it up and said total bullshit. Maybe he's having a good time because he said in February but didn't say what year... 🤣
During that time, we understood that Battle Dawn and everything GATO was working on would either never be completed or would take an infinite amount of time to complete. Therefore, the question arises, what does Alexander actually live on? It certainly won't be from SM. So he only has SM as a hobby, which he enjoys, because of writing with children. He naively thinks that this is the real community. He also naively thinks that writing with Alexander is what the community needs. But when someone is "almighty", he succumbs to this self-delusion.
I wanted to write for people to vote:
When will we get an upgrade?
A) this year
B) in 2023
C) concurrently with the Battle Dawn upgrade (around 2094)
D) this game is timeless and does not need to be modified
But then I thought it was pointless… 🖖

It so happens that Tactic-Gato's strategy remains the same. The strategy is to have a lot of junk legy's to decrease the chances of getting VIP items. That way they can sell more. It's a way for people to buy more. They always put a player in the showcase, like a fish in a fish tank with a meta-build for all to see. If the player is not very good they give him some extra advantages so that he wins and stays up and well visible. Sometimes the player isn't aware that they are using him, as they did with Rising and Canopy and other times the player-fish lends himself to the circus, as they are doing with CleverName. And then everyone wants to have the same thing that that one has and the one who can buy and buy. Whoever refuses to be fooled is condemned. If the meta is phys and you insist on playing with heat or energy, you're screwed (at least for a while).
Si...The strategy is to generate the need to buy to obtain the fashion item and then admins fill the boxes with dead items, so that the VIP item is more difficult to obtain. Nothing new, nobody has invented anything here. Now, the players who have been in the game for a few years, we already know that this is the case. It is crap, but they have always done it and in some way we have naturalized it.
What isn't understood is why they made promises that were not kept. There was no need to tell people that updates would be made in February, creating a false expectation. An impulsive and totally irrational attitude.

There are still enough paying players. I would not buy this game in my product portfolio. Not because it's a bad game or because it doesn't have perspective. But because it is leaky and has so many bugs, it is impossible to service it. Tacticsoft (read Michael) had known this for a long time and let her go with her own inertia. The last thing was to make a game plan for the year until it finds a buyer and the whole sale takes place. Managed to. I'm sure even Alexander didn't know what he was doing.
I look forward to more events awaiting this game. I hope it's not just about Alexander showing that his kung fu is better than hackers. But that will be about balancing the whole game. 😉

Kong is short name for Kongregate. Many old players had accounts on Kongregate. They made this game a reputation. When it comes to money, these players have been investing nothing or very little in the game for a long time. So they are an important asset for the game because they have valuable knowledge. From a business point of view, they are unnecessary because they do not generate profit. Transferring accounts from kong to sm.com is easy but laborious. Gato is still growing with new members, but I don't expect their job to be just that ... So I wrote RIP KONG for it. It's a big loss. Such veterans will grow for a long time.
 
Gato is always trying to convince everyone that he is here for the community and not for profit. This statement is very controversial, because I also think that when I go to invest in something, I want to make a profit or profit from it. So if ALexander is not a billionaire who doesn't know what to do with money and MAINLY with his free time then he has a plan, a plan that has long-term goals.

They have at least a few weeks. We'll state it when we're about to stop.

I can not, and we can not. Sorry. 
Yes, permanent and irreversible bugs may occur. This is not something that is meant to (ever) happen. If continuing via Kongregate is an option for you, I highly recommend that. 
 
Correct. May be, it might depend on when your kongregate account was made or such. 
 
Yes, this is why IE is mandatory 😛
The old account system was never updated to work with other browsers. 
 
 
 
 
Making a smoother process would be weeks/months of work, this particular process should do the trick but is insufficiently tested and underdeveloped. Simply put, we made the call that it's better to get _something_ as an option now, than to create an option we can provide guarantees for in march.

could you be a little more specific?
If I made a video of my inventory it could check if something is missing and restore it right?
Could permanent and irreversible bugs occur?
Why Internet Explorer ? i used chrome ...