A former govt of the Web3 recreation Blade of God X (BOGX) accused the mission of abandoning its blockchain-based roadmap after elevating funds by way of the crypto house.
On April 1, BOGX’s former chief advertising and marketing officer Amber Bella claimed in an X put up that regardless of being funded by Web3 sources, the sport “fully deserted” its Web3 targets and the crew engaged on its Web3 options.
“Web3 was fully deserted, and my Web3 crew’s salaries went from delayed funds to no funds in any respect,” Bella claimed.
The previous recreation govt additionally mentioned that as an alternative of compensating customers and repaying funds to non-fungible token (NFT) patrons, the sport’s founder, Tnise Liu Yang, determined to dam her from all private communication channels.
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Former BOGX exec says founder averted refund dialog
Within the X thread, Bella claimed she tried to persuade Yang to correctly liquidate the sport’s Web3 belongings, however the BOGX founder blocked all communications. Bella wrote:
“Once I requested that Tnise refund all bought NFTs and correctly handle the Web3 neighborhood, together with returning the in-game purchases made by Web3 customers through the third take a look at, I found I had been blocked from all private communication channels with none advance discover.”
Bella mentioned this occurred when she proposed “settling the Web3 facet” responsibly in the event that they have been to shift the sport into a completely Web2 mission.
As well as, the previous exec accused the sport’s Web2 crew of claiming prizes allotted for gamers. Bella mentioned that whereas the Web3 crew was working to enhance participant advantages, they found that the Web2 crew was utilizing their very own accounts to finish and declare money prizes that ought to’ve gone to gamers.
“They hid this from the Web3 crew completely and initially denied it when confronted. Solely once we introduced proof exhibiting that the accounts have been linked to their very own wallets did they lastly take away these accounts,” Bella wrote.
Cointelegraph reached out to Blade of God X for feedback however didn’t obtain a response by publication.
BOGX is a recreation motion role-playing recreation (RPG) developed by Void Labs. On Could 11, 2024, Web3 funding fund OKX Ventures introduced its funding within the recreation. In a now-deleted press launch, OKX Ventures wrote that the sport “merges superior AI brokers with blockchain know-how.”
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