This past month, Ashes of Creation launched its Kickstarter campaign. They not only met their goal within 12 hours, they broke 1 million within 24. By halfway through their campaign they broke 2 million raised placing them in front of Star Citizen, Camelot Unchained, Chronicles of Elyria, and Crowfall on the top MMO Kickstarter list. There campaign still has a few more days and they're obviously not done yet.
Ashes of Creation Kickstarter - Final Days!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1791529601/ashes-of-creation-new-mmorpg-by-intrepid-studios
Upon doing a bit more research into this studio and more importantly the controversy behind their leader, I found some interesting information that I want to relay to you as the reddits of the world aren't exactly giving the whole truth. Yes, Steven was involved in a Multi-Level Marketing organization…. When he was 16 years old. This organization that he was involved in solid natural health products, which are now sold at Whole Foods Market. This young high schooler at the time managed to build a website to help him sell these products which lead to him making his first million before he even started college. He left the MLM scene to get into real estate development where he turned that million into several more.
He has always been an avid gamer and was sick and tired of seeing sub par games miss the mark and decided to use his own money to fund a new company to make a MMO the way he felt they should be made. For the first 4 years, he has personally financed his team to build Ashes of Creation using his own hard earned money. He wasn't some kid that had it all handed to him, he's an entrepreneur that fought his way through life and turned hard work into revenue. He then employed over 20 people for more than 4 years on his finances alone. He has recruited a team of talented game developers to build the game he has envisioned many of which come from the now defunct Everquest Next team.
The Kickstarter campaign was launched to bring on voice actors, quality assurance testers, and a few more developers to help finish the project which is already internally playable and will be released to a closed alpha team soon. The money they raise will help them meet some of their stretch goals and give them the support they need to put polish on the game.
While Steven's professional background may not be in gaming, his passion is. Having a Businessman in the helm of a company isn't always a bad thing. Many games have fallen by the wayside for a lack of business sense and money management. Steve knows how to turn a dollar into two and is setting Ashes of Creation up to be one of the largest innovations in gaming to date. It's also one of the first games we've seen that will feature most of our qualifying factors we look for in a chapter. We are keeping a close eye on this one and encourage all of you to do the same. Don't let half truths spoil the facts and please be diligent in researching the truth. It's available to those who seek it out and it's not even close to what some on reddit claim it to be.
Get involved in what looks to be a very likely candidate for Chapter 6 at: http://gsch.info/play/aoc
Use the above link to help make inclusion easier come testing time.
Curious about what makes a Chapter a chapter? Read our article in Gaiscioch Magazine outlining the process at: http://gsch.info/a/156168
Ashes of Creation Referral Program and Gaiscioch
I feel it is important to be transparent on the subject of Referrals and their Affiliate program. The above link is connected to their referral system. Originally created to link us all together and help with the inclusion process in testing opportunities. Since then, this system has turned into an affiliate program that has in game and real world payouts.
The way their system works is that 15% of every dollar spent by a referral comes back to the referrer in the form of ingame currency for the cash shop, subscription fee, and even quarterly payouts. The way I plan to use it is to fund prizes for community events, fund guild progression, and also help offset some of the costs of running Gaiscioch. LIke all things with Gaiscioch, everything that I might receive I will be reinvesting it in Gaiscioch. For information about the costs associated with our community visit: http://gsch.info/p/110002.
Typically every year I'm spending $1,000-$1,500 of my own money on Gaiscioch to cover the various costs from web hosting, domains, stock art for the magazine, audio and video for the trailers, software, travel, and collateral for conferences. All of these things help keep us online, active and growing. This is not a problem for me and it's my hobby so I don't mind it, however Ashes of Creation gives us an opportunity to help reduce the costs allowing me to use those funds for other things.
That said I don't want to pressure anyone into using our referral link and if you're not comfortable with it that's completely ok. I was not aware of the plans to turn this referral system into what it has become at the time I had the link setup. I do not want to be deceptive or misleading with what this link does. Honesty and Integrity have always been first and foremost on the qualities I practice and I will continue to be transparent on this subject. Feel free to come talk to me about this topic and I'll be 100% honest with all of you. Thank you all for your continued support of our community.
You can read more about their referral program and even get yourself setup to gain some referrals of your own at: https://www.ashesofcreation.com/referral-program/
PlayStation Social Adventure Update
Neverwinter
Neverwinter's big Guild improvement patch hits June 20th so you can look forward to having a bit more of an enjoyable experience in guilds. If you need an invite please hit Foghladha up. I am currently running daily epic dungeons gearing up for the battles to come and actively looking for others to do some of our strongholds daily quests.
Skyforge
Well we tried, Skyforge has rather enjoyable gameplay and we had a pretty good group of players to start, but then i went on my work trip which took me out of game for a week, I came back to find only 4 players remained, 2 of which were officer ranks and hadn't logged in in over 20 days making it impossible to upgrade the pantheon. The Guild system in Skyforge was completely rebuilt since launch, yet it still is the worst guild system I've ever used. At this point I am going to retire GSCH in Skyforge and move on to better things.
Marvel Heroes Omega
Thanks to our friend Tyler, formerly of Digital Extremes and now at Gazillion, we had the chance to pass around some keys to this new free-2-play action rpg based on the Marvel Universe. After streaming and playing this a bit we've found it incredibly fun. While there are no guilds yet in Marvel Heroes Omega we have a healthy group of friends including Sekkerhund, Donaliam, Foghladha, Radiological, Ckemikal and Eiahn actively playing it. If anyone else wants to connect with us please join the GSCH Social Adventure community on PSN. This will likely be making a regular appearance on Fog's PlayStation Adventures.
Tera
The countdown to Tera on PS4 is slowly making it's way toward us. The ominous "Fall 2017" is rapidly approaching. We may hear some additional news including a release date at E3 this month so keep your ears peeled. We will definitely be opening a GSCH in Tera the week it opens so if you want to connect with us be sure to get in touch with Foghladha.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
We're happy to announce that Radiological has joined the Monday stream team for Ghost Recon Wildlands. We now have 4 Gaiscioch involved in the game and have a clan setup for easy hot joining each other. Be sure to join us and get involved. We're having a blast and making some pretty cool videos in the process.
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