Wildworks Fer.al/Cinder Scam
On November 27, 2021, it was announced on via the Instagram, Twitter, and Discord for WildWork's Fer.al game that a new Blockchain based game would be coming late 2021. Clark Stacey, CEO of WildWorks, claimed in an AMA hosted on the Discord server that feral would be continuing development, that it was "most likely the opposite" when asked if feral would be funding cinder, and said "some assets" from feral would be used in Cinder. He said that he was letting the feral community know of this game first because he "knew we would have strong opinions on it", but refused to elaborate about the game any further and insisted that we were not the target audience. Additionally, when asked to provide sources not from Solana and to further research the negative impact of NFTs in a way that did not simply provide confirmation bias, he asked us to do his research for him. A screenshot included in this document heavily implies that Fer.al was simply a beta test for Cinder. Clark claimed Cinder had only been in development for two months, while the screenshot, taken from Cinder's official website, says that Cinder's platform has been tested for two years via another game (Fer.al). Fer.al has gone from closed beta testing to early access testing in the span of - you guessed it - two years. Thus, Fer.al was a beta test scam for Cinder, and people unwittingly paid money for it.
Initial announcements -
https://twitter.com/playferal/status/1464700945128996875?t=EG73NvXBdd-wbuS_H-1q8w&s=19
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWyykv3FJpk/?utm_medium=copy_link
Clark Stacey AMA full transcript -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DYR1DcldpvmpcoXN8oUBsEzyBoQpKjUfvhZWMk4nUY/edit
Articles about Cinder and related -
https://clarkstacey.medium.com/the-crypto-gaming-controversy-331bcf5fb519
Cinder website and screenshot excerpt -
Additional info -
Animal Jam screenshot from spring 2021 condemning cryptocurrency.
In the AMA, a server moderator attempted to ask about these issues, and was continuously ignored. The AMA was abruptly and oh so conveniently ended when people repeatedly bumped the question and became upset that it wasn't being answered.
Additionally, it should be worth noting that, while I have no additional evidence to put here, WW is notorious for its security issues and general shadiness.