The Disastrous Downfall of Fer.al

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• CA

  @CamTroid · 1 year ago

  It's so wild to hear NFT's being described as this up and coming thing, even though this vid is only 3 years old it feels like NFT's imploded eons ago.

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• AB

  @absoscribblesart2020 · 3 years ago

  I'm here from the "future" to let you all know that Cinder has been unceremoniously shut down in February 2023. It was not announced really, there are no big statements apparently but the servers are shut off and the whole team has apparently been let go. So much for that dream of big money, I guess.

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• IG

  @IgnisAurumProbat · 4 years ago (edited)

  Man, the graphics and the artstyle of the game are absolutely gorgeous, I feel so fucking bad for the artists that got shackled with shit management

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• SA

  @sackfu7952 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The irony of a team that partnered with National geographic to make an online kids game to teach kids about animals getting in to NFTs cannot be understated.

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• AL

  @alguin2 · 4 years ago (edited)

  hearing that a game shut down overnight (while its community imploded) and got replaced by an NFT-based knockoff was just the tip of the iceberg filled me with dread

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• PA

  @PatchworkRose567 · 4 years ago

  The final day was awful. We were only given 3 hours and they had disabled text and voice chat so nobody could even say their goodbyes to each other in the game. They shut the severs down half an hour after the scheduled time and simply put a “sever has been updated” error. No goodbyes, no special party in the game, nothing. I jumped on the game and supported the game via the season pass and buying avatars and it hurts seeing how they pushed it to the side for an NFT reskin of the game with no compensation or warning of it shutting down. Thanks to wildworks, I now have little trust in any future social MMOs that pop up.

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• EN

  @enemy9703 · 4 years ago

  Ex Moderator here, and I sneakily contributed some images which I was happy to see here.<br><br>On behalf of the moderators who did not have the time to share added perspectives, it&apos;s very relieving to see your recognition of our blood sweat and tears during this terrible event. <br>It&apos;s been difficult to even see this ourselves, while we were literally gaslighted in areas to feel &quot;okay&quot; about it, or being told &quot;everything will be fine.&quot;<br><br>While WW ghosted our concerns for announcements, concerns for community awareness, (It has been 7+ days since our messages were &quot;passed down&quot; and still left in the dark) WW has additionally failed to communicate to us on the many friendships we&apos;ve created. On an emotional perspective, we were also greatly affected. From admins banning innocent members in front of us, having another WW administrator telling us to grow up, &nbsp;(literal evidence we have) we had to sit and watch most of the time. Some of us were vocal about it and addressing our points directly to staff with some avail to none.<br><br>This was more than just an &quot;unpopular business decision,&quot; it was punishment honestly

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• PA

  @Paradox_Incognito · 4 years ago (edited)

  Didn&apos;t realize fer.al had actually shut down until I saw this a month later. My dad and I always played together, as well as animal jam, and when I shared this with him (after keeping him updated on prior controversy), I am pleased to announce that on behalf of my father, Clark Stacey is now a professional &quot;slimy jerkbag&quot;. (I&apos;m pretty sure he would have said more choice words if my mom wasn&apos;t in the next room over)<br><br>Edit: character arc moment, my parents just got divorced last month ✨️

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• LU

  @lucc1800 · 4 years ago (edited)

  This whole situation is literally so ironic because animal jam, their first neglected game was a game all about saving the environment but fast forward 2 years later... and Cinder pops up, a game about NFTs right after they neglect another game of theirs that had so much potential

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• TA

  @tailsknuxfan101 · 4 years ago (edited)

  They&apos;ve gone from throwing their phone at a wardrobe to getting sponsored by SwitchCraft and Genshin Impact. That&apos;s a glow up if I&apos;ve ever seen one.

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• YI

  @yin9008 · 4 years ago

  The Animal Jam to Fer.al to Cinder pipeline really is just the embodiment of &quot;you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain&quot;

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• SO

  @solarpower1700 · 4 years ago

  Ex- Server Helper here. I believe that if they had listened to the amazing community feedback and ideas and actually communicated in the last year of the game, it could have been saved from failure and dare I say it might have become profitable. It certainly had potential; a big and active community, players willing to engage in the game, it just didn&apos;t have the substance to keep players engaged.

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