"My assets are in danger" We can read in their discord. OMG people are so naive.. Bro.. Your "assets" does not even exists, they never did. You bought nothingness, just cope with that and use that as a lesson for the future.
Bold of you to assume that these people will ever learn. They're too blinded by greed and the false promise of 'gey rich quick', they'll just get pulled into the next crypto scam
@@ArDeeMeethat's being generous comparing E2 to a mobile game, at least mobile gives you some, albeit exceptionally dull game play. But it's still game play. Not seeing that with E2.
@@nursewithwound4343Nobody "deserves to lose it all" unless they were doing heinous illegal activities. The type of people scammed by these kinds of schemes are usually desperate and just looking to escape the endless grind like everyone else. The less compassion you show to scammed people the less likely they are to share their stories and possibly help people in the future. You are not immune to being tricked. Your shadenfreude is actively damaging to people.
Wait, wasn't E2 supposed to have a futuristic setting? Why are there skeleton hordes in PvE? That smells like an asset flip without much effort on E2's 'programmers' part.
classic E2 they cant decide what the game is or what kinda setting it is. Its just all over the place. Whats the animals for even do they have purpose in they game yet even?
It's supposed to be in a setting where buildings/cities don't exist but should be built ny players. Hardly futuristic. But what E2 was supposed to be is turning out to be pure shaitan anyhow
If I was stranded in a desert, dying of dehydration, and Shane offered me a bottle of water for a penny, I still don't think I'd take him up on it because it'd most likely be filled with sand and future promises of water.
5k per day? For everyone?! Oof.. Imagine sitting in a queue, spamming the button, in hopes of getting out potentially a fraction of what you've put in.. Fun!
Putting down a limit for 5k per day is absolutely, without a doubt, no question to prevent a mass exodus of funds that will bankrupt them today rather than 6 months from now. I'm not sure who is the worse, the people who spend years tricking the gullible morons with more money than brains or the people who try to defend them. Can pretty much guarantee when this falls apart and Shane needs people to blame you'll be on the top of his list, if not already.
The 5K for everyone limit pretty much confirms they don't have enough money to meet demand. So they are likely using Peter to pay Paul. The 5k is likely a % of their average daily intake currently.
They're always been operating like a Ponzi scheme, the house of cards was always going to fall it was just a matter of time. Maybe if they could have produced some kind of product they could have prevented it but they never had the means or drive to actually make anything in the first place. All the money in the world can't buy you Success you still have to have competent people who know what they're doing with proper check and balances. Concord is an example of all the money in the world, competent enough to make some kind of product but no checks and balances to make sure the product was actually quality.
it's small enough that people who get money out could just as well be the company itself only. it's a theoretical route to get money out, to say there's a route.
@@GrumpyIan nah i think they'll just let it fizzle. easier to argue as not fraud, keep people hanging on nothing. longer it goes easier it's to argue they just ran out of money. though it's harder to argue how they're not a bank or a financial thing or a gambling site etc if it went to authorities taking a good look, but the hopefuls are best kept hanging on nothing, hoping to eternitys end.
That login issue is one of the first mistakes people make when learning authentication.. No joke that's basic 101. It's shocking these guys have 100 mill. Honestly there is probably grounds to sue for neglecence
Anyone with an email address should know this tbh. They simply won’t let you create an address with existing letter combinations by just putting an uppercase in there. They didn’t let you do this in the 90s! That’s how basic this is!
when I heard Callum mention that logins were Case dependant like that I actually gasped. I have literally zero knowledge of programming and knew that was stupid as heck.
The withdrawal limits and crypto rugpull only confirm the suspicion. A 5k/day per person withdrawal limit could easily be justified by just saying something like "There's a lot of fraud online, we want to make sure the high rollers can't be wiped out by one slip up in their security without impacting on regular users too much" since 5k is more than most people have but is a number that a company as large and successful as E2 is *supposed* to be could reimburse in the event of a problem without major trouble.
A combined USD 5k withdrawl total for all users? That... is bad. Wow... nothing good comes from them. "Navmesh" being new? I... played with the Neverwinter Nights game engine a bit and that had some basic navmesh and whatnot, and that was in 2002. I really hate how "techbros" seem to be the least tech-savvy people around.
It's the Star Citizen 'community engagement' model. Claim that you need the money to invent some amazing new tech and we're all on the journey together, when in reality you made a bunch of stupid decisions early on and your devteam are desperately playing catchup with the rest of the industry. Star Citizen literally tried telling people that nested asset loading (a basic tool for most engines) needed three years of dev time. Oh and 'server meshing'. Which is STILL not a thing.
@@SquillagusNiggle I'm still undecided about star citizen. I don't think it ever was thought as a scam, because a scam needs an escape plan, I could be convinced that it is just incompetence, but with that amount of time they can't still be inexperienced. My only Idea is that dumb decision are ego driven, completely ignoring reality. A bit like a bethesda syndrome...
@@Dong_Harvey Was more thinking about using NavMesh to define paths for NPCs in NwN's map creator, but I could get my terms wrong, not the biggest in that regard. Point stands, NavMesh is nothing new, it's kinda basic and needed for 3D games afaik.
It's very clear that the game designers are just adding things in that seem cool rather than having an overall plan. Is the game based on economy or exploration? Are we meant to control a human character or is this more like Sim City? I might just be out of the loop but the trailers ought to help the viewer understand what the game is really about.
Crazy that they would ban someone like you who's been with them since day 1. Like what kind of message does that send to the already shattered community?
@@RisingRevengeanceIt’s beyond me, really… I don’t understand what I did that made them take a stand to BAN me entirely, especially after all I’ve done for E2 in the past. They effectively turn their supporters against them this way… It is very hard to feel that I can defend them after all this, because their actions doesn’t make any sense. They say they care for the people and that they are aiming to build “the people’s metaverse” while banning the people who care the most. E2 was my place to be for 4 years. They just ripped that away from me with no care in the world for how that would hurt me, proving the haters right in the progress….. I’ve always been defending them saying E2 would NEVER silence their community and only do it to people who had ill intents. I feel extremely stupid now….
"Some people own $400,000 worth of stuff. " Is very different to the reality of "some people spent $400,000 on stuff". Not meaning to kick someone while they are down, but there's no way the game developers didn't discover they were working on a ponzi scheme/obvious scam at some point during their tenure.
There's probably a bunch of dirty money invested into the project. If they just straight up rug pull or close up shop, it's possible that there would be some really angry criminal groups going after them and they aren't exactly anonymous. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
And modern engines will do 99% of the work for you with just a couple clicks. There's always stairs, ramps, and sharp corners to clean up, but geez, this is about as basic as working with a 3d engine gets.
@@peevester9987 Even Skyrim (2011) has the ability for you to calculate navmesh with a click on a button, and that's not modern. Navmesh is necessary but not a big deal to do. I bet he wondered why his little critters wouldn't move. It probably took him even longer to figure out why the critters wouldn't move even with a navmesh but no instruction.
Despite being an "Investor" I was banned from the facebook group for merely pointing out how ridiculous the current withdrawal situation is, the "game" and community supporting it are a joke
This is why people tried to point out from the get go that this was not something to put your money in. Only the people who got in early and tricked others into also doing it made any money. Because those were people playing that risky game of trying to get in and out before it all crashed to the ground. It was a giant scam from the start. I hope you didn't spend any more than you could afford to have set on fire for entertainment. Best of luck in getting back out whole. Edit: And of course Shane made money. The House always makes money
@@ram89572 Oh yeah, to be honest I only invested what i would typically be willingly spend on a computer game, around $100, so its no big deal at all, I was only interested in the gaming aspect of the project not the money making. The project goes from one embarrassment to another, there used to be tons of zealots/shills in the community but its literally fallen to the same dozen or so people defending it lol
Contractors being treated as slave labour holly fk. that is incredibly infuriating and why the hell are not officiall policing forces involved on that particular aspect already?
I mean tbf the contracted employee is technically just as stupid as the employer for continuing to work without pay unless their contract stipulated payment upon completion or some such. And if so, they're even dumber for signing such a contract. I have no empathy for people that put themselves in the fire. Id say it's karma for participating in a scam.
This is like saying "I have a blank canvas open in Microsoft Paint, selling 1 pixel of space for $100" no one cares because your Microsoft Paint file is worthless and does not represent value in anything real or tangible in the real world.
Remember that bits in the T&C's where they said 'any losses incurred by any reason are not our fault' and 'we can refuse withdrawals for any reason'? I wonder how well that will hold up from them...
"And don't worry, that wasn't irrelevant" That being the first thing said after a sponsorship about cyber security is basically saying to get your popcorn. I get the feeling that being sued for unpaid wages would bankrupt E2.
Every clips shown in background looks like they come from different games/asset packs with nothing linking them together clearly people never bought in it for any kind of game related content.
"some people have hundreds of dollars worth of stuff, many people have forty to sixty thousand dollars worth of stuff on their profile" wrong, its 0 dollars worth of stuff lmao
lmao why tf is there skeletons and golems roaming around? how does the beach buggy off-road racing match with that? oh right.. there ain´t any.. wasn´t this scam supposed to be scifi/futuristic shite?
Amazing, yesterday I was wondering what was going on with Earth 2, Chronicles of Elyria and Dreamworld. The drama of those projects made my days back in the Covid times
If you told me that Earth 2 was a project led by a literal child, I'd believe you given the context of these circumstances. Not paying devs, implementing a broken broke authentication system, kicking their moderator. But it's not. Though Shane Isaac continues to act like a braindead manchild, he is still an adult. And as sad as it is that some people fell for this guy's scam, the fact remains he's still scammed people.
I think some people just aren't cut out to lead a game studio. Hell, I'm probably one of them. If you know you struggle finishing projects, don't ask for people's money. Especially when your project is literally of planetary scale!
I really want to see you talk to someone who is a big Earth 2 defender. Last time I heard about this project was years ago, that was when everyone was hype and saying so many millionaires were going to be minted
As a game developer the guy making earth 2 doesn't seem to have a stable idea on what Earth 2 is supposed to be apart from a money farm. this is why it will never be successful, games require a goal, a final idea. he keeps flip flopping on what he wants to do.
combat system? since when did they decide to add a combat system? what even is this "game"? (i know there is no game, i mean their idea of it :D ) idk what it is, delusion, stupidity, or just good ol sunken cost fallacy, but this scam is going on for too long, it's time for them to go
It baffles me that you'd buy virtual land in a metaverse. If you can't teleport you're tied down and won't see much of it, and if you can then there's almost no prime real estate.
3:30 love the Earth 2 series reference. I haven't seen it since it first aired but I was a big fan back in the day. I recently had a bit of a look at it on IMDb and thought I should try to track it down
What a unique blend of a Ponzi, pyramid, and multi-level marketing scheme. How anyone thought it was a good idea to participate is beyond me. These videos are always such a nice reminder for those of us who didn't invest in it, that we've made the correct choice
Not to give advise to any potential scammers... but why are they dragging this so much. Money is gone, dev team is gone, your discord mods are gone ffs... finish the operation already, there's no one left to milk for more money lol.
If people have access to other people's account settings, wouldn't they be able to change those settings also? Meaning they could change the linked email address and phone number and effectively steal the accounts forever?
Earth 2 has clearly gone into it's "grab a new asset pack and shoe-horn it into a demo world to show how much work is happening" phase. Worked great for Dreamworld.
Ah yes, the revolutionary Nav Mesh tech, first conceived for robotics in 1986 and applied to video games at the start of the millennium. Truly ahead of their time.
Lets be real. The incompetency was there from day 1 if you have coosen to not see it you are on your own. Now comes the ice berg and this ship will sink fast.
Don't get me wrong, I make mods for games and sometimes I say "hey I am probably doing this thing" and somtimes, I don't have the time to do exactly what I say. The difference is that I don't expect people to give me money.
If I asked for money every time I had a game idea I'd be a serial scammer too 😂 Some people are just bad at finishing big projects. There's nothing wrong with that provided you don't take any money, or give everyone a refund. (Better to not take the money to begin with). Seems like Shane has dug himself a pit he can't escape from.
@@williamdrum9899 There's also not that much of an issue if you can tell that someone was dreaming big but overall couldn't do everything that they wanted. But that's the exact point, here we can tell that they don't exactly want to do even that (all that "buy stuff, earn by selling etc." bs aside).
Wait what? A fantasy game? Wasnt earth 2 suposed to be some economy-sim? With modern buildings and shit? Why is there a cheap darksouls knockoff asset flip?
Short answer is, if you have 4K to blow on this then you get no sympathy. If you have 300K to blow on this, then you know what you were trying to do and got rugged yourself.
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when can we get an update to dreamworld/dreamworld 2.0
@@alexcoad2532😢
They wasted all the money and didn't build anything worthwhile? What a shocking surprise...
Well, that's not quite right; Shane got a new house and car out of this and he thanks you for your service.
One of these days a crypto/metaverse game will come out that people actually want to play. Any day now. We're still early. Few understand....
@@gswdeclan 🤣
@@gswdeclan🤣🤣🤣
Who would've thought 😂
Wow, they demodded the guy just so he could "take a break"? That's like changing the locks on someone's house so they can go on holiday. Deeply sus.
I don't think one can name this sus anymore.
"My assets are in danger" We can read in their discord. OMG people are so naive.. Bro.. Your "assets" does not even exists, they never did. You bought nothingness, just cope with that and use that as a lesson for the future.
This... and they deserve to lose it all haha
Bold of you to assume that these people will ever learn. They're too blinded by greed and the false promise of 'gey rich quick', they'll just get pulled into the next crypto scam
My mobile game has mtx with more tangible substance than E2 ever could…
@@ArDeeMeethat's being generous comparing E2 to a mobile game, at least mobile gives you some, albeit exceptionally dull game play. But it's still game play. Not seeing that with E2.
@@nursewithwound4343Nobody "deserves to lose it all" unless they were doing heinous illegal activities. The type of people scammed by these kinds of schemes are usually desperate and just looking to escape the endless grind like everyone else. The less compassion you show to scammed people the less likely they are to share their stories and possibly help people in the future. You are not immune to being tricked.
Your shadenfreude is actively damaging to people.
The evidence is leaning away from 'incompetence' and towards 'malfeasance' on Shane and Co's part.
Seems like it's both
leaning? it straight up is
We shouldn't have to prove that they're scammers.
@@Jordan-Ramses Innocent until proven guilty.
That doesn't mean you should give people/projects like this money, but yeah.
@@Archangelm127 in court. This isn't court.
Wait, wasn't E2 supposed to have a futuristic setting? Why are there skeleton hordes in PvE? That smells like an asset flip without much effort on E2's 'programmers' part.
classic E2 they cant decide what the game is or what kinda setting it is. Its just all over the place. Whats the animals for even do they have purpose in they game yet even?
I thought it was ment to be a 1 to 1 recreation of earth?
It's supposed to be in a setting where buildings/cities don't exist but should be built ny players. Hardly futuristic. But what E2 was supposed to be is turning out to be pure shaitan anyhow
Its 'ready player one' of course. Cant you see it? 😂@@Tompa8411
I would hope that there would still be skeletons in the future.
If I was stranded in a desert, dying of dehydration, and Shane offered me a bottle of water for a penny, I still don't think I'd take him up on it because it'd most likely be filled with sand and future promises of water.
Nah, even if it was filled with sand you'd still be getting something. You'd just get a bottle with a picture of water applied to it.
@@khandimahn9687 too much...just a digital picture that shows an AI generated non-existent bottle
LMAOOO
😂😂
the communal withdraw limit is so funny, real classy move right there
These people can't even get case sensitivity correct and people trust them with a financial device.
It's the train wreck that keeps on crashing.
It's that setpiece from Quantum Break with the ship crashing into the bridge over and over on loop.
5k per day? For everyone?! Oof.. Imagine sitting in a queue, spamming the button, in hopes of getting out potentially a fraction of what you've put in.. Fun!
Is that the gameplay?
And imagine, for absolutely zero dollars, we have been greatly entertained. I think we got the better deal here.
Gameplay!
@@onomatopoeia7505 good point lol. and gameplay indeed!
@@toolittletoolate You made me smile. Thank you 😀
I think Callum is the only one legally making money from Earth2.
Fixed ! : I think Callum is the only one illegally making money from Earth2.
@@gbnq2513 What? xD Kindly point me towards the illegality part. Go on, dont be shy.
@@gbnq2513 Shane?
@@gbnq2513You will never be found, your family with live in squalor as you invest in earth2
@@gbnq2513 bagholder detected
Putting down a limit for 5k per day is absolutely, without a doubt, no question to prevent a mass exodus of funds that will bankrupt them today rather than 6 months from now.
I'm not sure who is the worse, the people who spend years tricking the gullible morons with more money than brains or the people who try to defend them.
Can pretty much guarantee when this falls apart and Shane needs people to blame you'll be on the top of his list, if not already.
The 5K for everyone limit pretty much confirms they don't have enough money to meet demand. So they are likely using Peter to pay Paul. The 5k is likely a % of their average daily intake currently.
They're always been operating like a Ponzi scheme, the house of cards was always going to fall it was just a matter of time. Maybe if they could have produced some kind of product they could have prevented it but they never had the means or drive to actually make anything in the first place. All the money in the world can't buy you Success you still have to have competent people who know what they're doing with proper check and balances. Concord is an example of all the money in the world, competent enough to make some kind of product but no checks and balances to make sure the product was actually quality.
it's small enough that people who get money out could just as well be the company itself only. it's a theoretical route to get money out, to say there's a route.
They're getting ready to cut and run
@@GrumpyIan nah i think they'll just let it fizzle. easier to argue as not fraud, keep people hanging on nothing. longer it goes easier it's to argue they just ran out of money.
though it's harder to argue how they're not a bank or a financial thing or a gambling site etc if it went to authorities taking a good look, but the hopefuls are best kept hanging on nothing, hoping to eternitys end.
That login issue is one of the first mistakes people make when learning authentication.. No joke that's basic 101. It's shocking these guys have 100 mill. Honestly there is probably grounds to sue for neglecence
Anyone with an email address should know this tbh. They simply won’t let you create an address with existing letter combinations by just putting an uppercase in there.
They didn’t let you do this in the 90s! That’s how basic this is!
Just don't choose negligence as a password
when I heard Callum mention that logins were Case dependant like that I actually gasped. I have literally zero knowledge of programming and knew that was stupid as heck.
@@hardbrocklifeyoure right.. neglecence was my password, now I needed to update it to "negligence"! 😏
Genuine question: why aren't uppercase letters a good thing in authentication?
Is Arya Realty still in hiding? How many people did he help sucker into this scam?
You beat me to it!
Arya is one of many examples that you can be wealthy and really dumb at the same time
Scamming Randy Chavez as well
Im not so sure he is really wealthy, how many actually wealthy people would bother with something like earth 2?
He's still on x trying to convince people ess is going to the moon
It's so difficult to feel sorry for anyone who is JUST NOW getting an uneasy feeling about this project.
Same with any NFT in general... You're "buying" a receipt that has a url to an image on it!? Sooooo, so, soooooo stupid!
That thing with voluntarily invalidating their regulatory status really feels like an "Oh crap, we can't actually pay people" type thing.
The withdrawal limits and crypto rugpull only confirm the suspicion.
A 5k/day per person withdrawal limit could easily be justified by just saying something like "There's a lot of fraud online, we want to make sure the high rollers can't be wiped out by one slip up in their security without impacting on regular users too much" since 5k is more than most people have but is a number that a company as large and successful as E2 is *supposed* to be could reimburse in the event of a problem without major trouble.
A combined USD 5k withdrawl total for all users? That... is bad. Wow... nothing good comes from them.
"Navmesh" being new? I... played with the Neverwinter Nights game engine a bit and that had some basic navmesh and whatnot, and that was in 2002. I really hate how "techbros" seem to be the least tech-savvy people around.
It's the Star Citizen 'community engagement' model. Claim that you need the money to invent some amazing new tech and we're all on the journey together, when in reality you made a bunch of stupid decisions early on and your devteam are desperately playing catchup with the rest of the industry. Star Citizen literally tried telling people that nested asset loading (a basic tool for most engines) needed three years of dev time. Oh and 'server meshing'. Which is STILL not a thing.
@@SquillagusNiggle I'm still undecided about star citizen. I don't think it ever was thought as a scam, because a scam needs an escape plan, I could be convinced that it is just incompetence, but with that amount of time they can't still be inexperienced. My only Idea is that dumb decision are ego driven, completely ignoring reality.
A bit like a bethesda syndrome...
Navmesh is noticeable in Baldurs Gate 1 and Icewind Dale, I don't know anything older
@@Dong_Harvey Was more thinking about using NavMesh to define paths for NPCs in NwN's map creator, but I could get my terms wrong, not the biggest in that regard. Point stands, NavMesh is nothing new, it's kinda basic and needed for 3D games afaik.
So Earth 2 combat is revealed and it seriously looks like an unreal engine demo pack
The real Earth 2 combat is the rush to hit buttons to get their money. That is where the real PvP is.
the real Earth 2 is the friends we made along the way.
No way
Throttling the entire pool to 5k stinks of having to use personal bank withdrawals to cover. 🚩🚩Time for the financial investigation🚩🚩
I love how none of their trailers have any relevance to this day. None of it makes sense
It's very clear that the game designers are just adding things in that seem cool rather than having an overall plan. Is the game based on economy or exploration? Are we meant to control a human character or is this more like Sim City? I might just be out of the loop but the trailers ought to help the viewer understand what the game is really about.
This has been a crazy ride… thanks for standing up for me ❤️
I feel so sorry to hear ur story. I wish something more worth while appears in your future.
Crazy that they would ban someone like you who's been with them since day 1.
Like what kind of message does that send to the already shattered community?
@@samamies88I am still just so confused, hurt and sad about the entire thing and how it was handled… Thank you ❤️
@@RisingRevengeanceIt’s beyond me, really… I don’t understand what I did that made them take a stand to BAN me entirely, especially after all I’ve done for E2 in the past. They effectively turn their supporters against them this way… It is very hard to feel that I can defend them after all this, because their actions doesn’t make any sense. They say they care for the people and that they are aiming to build “the people’s metaverse” while banning the people who care the most.
E2 was my place to be for 4 years. They just ripped that away from me with no care in the world for how that would hurt me, proving the haters right in the progress….. I’ve always been defending them saying E2 would NEVER silence their community and only do it to people who had ill intents. I feel extremely stupid now….
@@SEIKEYeah rest in peace your asset
"Some people own $400,000 worth of stuff. " Is very different to the reality of "some people spent $400,000 on stuff".
Not meaning to kick someone while they are down, but there's no way the game developers didn't discover they were working on a ponzi scheme/obvious scam at some point during their tenure.
Wait... Earth 2 is still around?
The subreddit is basically dead. I'm surprised they're even able to put on the facade of being an ongoing operation at this point
Wait. That's E2. Wait
There's probably a bunch of dirty money invested into the project. If they just straight up rug pull or close up shop, it's possible that there would be some really angry criminal groups going after them and they aren't exactly anonymous. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 earth2 community is mostly on Discord and Facebook
This was the biggest surprise for me too.
Them keeping the money and doing nothing? That was evident from the day the project started.
I was just binging the old E2 episodes, and you bless me with a completely new one. I must have sensed it
Navmesh a revolutionary tech? HAHAHAHA. It exist since early 2000 in video games, and the logic itself was there since the 80's.
Hell, I know about nav meshes because it's a fairly common bug in mods for Bethesda games that someone accidentally breaks NPC nav pathing.
Doom (1993) uses nav meshes since the levels are basically built as a graph of 2d polygon zones
And modern engines will do 99% of the work for you with just a couple clicks. There's always stairs, ramps, and sharp corners to clean up, but geez, this is about as basic as working with a 3d engine gets.
@@peevester9987 Even Skyrim (2011) has the ability for you to calculate navmesh with a click on a button, and that's not modern. Navmesh is necessary but not a big deal to do.
I bet he wondered why his little critters wouldn't move. It probably took him even longer to figure out why the critters wouldn't move even with a navmesh but no instruction.
@@ripstop5082 Skyrim ? Oh boy... super mario kart (1992) has a navmesh system.
Metaverse and Bad Webdev is a Venndiagram that is a perfect circle.
Despite being an "Investor" I was banned from the facebook group for merely pointing out how ridiculous the current withdrawal situation is, the "game" and community supporting it are a joke
This is why people tried to point out from the get go that this was not something to put your money in. Only the people who got in early and tricked others into also doing it made any money. Because those were people playing that risky game of trying to get in and out before it all crashed to the ground. It was a giant scam from the start. I hope you didn't spend any more than you could afford to have set on fire for entertainment. Best of luck in getting back out whole.
Edit: And of course Shane made money. The House always makes money
@@ram89572 Oh yeah, to be honest I only invested what i would typically be willingly spend on a computer game, around $100, so its no big deal at all, I was only interested in the gaming aspect of the project not the money making. The project goes from one embarrassment to another, there used to be tons of zealots/shills in the community but its literally fallen to the same dozen or so people defending it lol
Getting banned for asking a legitimate question or having a reasonable complaint is really scummy. Reddit is notorious for this crap.
report to sec, ftc etc. say they used the word investment and take away the product and product support without refunding etc.
Contractors being treated as slave labour holly fk.
that is incredibly infuriating and why the hell are not officiall policing forces involved on that particular aspect already?
probly the location where e2 is located, different countries have different contract rules.
I mean tbf the contracted employee is technically just as stupid as the employer for continuing to work without pay unless their contract stipulated payment upon completion or some such. And if so, they're even dumber for signing such a contract. I have no empathy for people that put themselves in the fire. Id say it's karma for participating in a scam.
we can just call earth2bucks what they are; A Premium Currency, just like in any freemium game
This is like saying "I have a blank canvas open in Microsoft Paint, selling 1 pixel of space for $100" no one cares because your Microsoft Paint file is worthless and does not represent value in anything real or tangible in the real world.
but you can play tetris with it!
Shut up and take my money!
It might one day be the most valuable pixels. Ever
Pretty sure someone got a million that way
Blast from the past! RUclips quietly unsubscribed me then decided to suggest this video lol 😂
Wait what the hell you made me check and I was unsubbed as well??? Might explain why I havent seen his vids in a while
Ffs, RUclips!
I was still subscribed, but seeing these comments pop up again and again make me so suspicious. Subs are my bookmarks, dangit.
bro every time i see "earth 2' im thinking to myself. 'this HAS to be the LAST time they EVER talk about Earth 2. right??'
lol NOPE XDDDD
Remember that bits in the T&C's where they said 'any losses incurred by any reason are not our fault' and 'we can refuse withdrawals for any reason'? I wonder how well that will hold up from them...
"And don't worry, that wasn't irrelevant" That being the first thing said after a sponsorship about cyber security is basically saying to get your popcorn.
I get the feeling that being sued for unpaid wages would bankrupt E2.
Surprised Pikachu:My ponzi scheme is a ponzi scheme!
Well played, "If I change my name to something clever then maybe someone will read it". Well played.
I love this 2nd season of earth 2. It was unexpected, but its pure cinema ❤
im sure combat and AI would have a great time mavigating around when anyone is supposedly going to be allowed to drop factories and fencing everywhere
mfw I'm fighting a minotaur and a cement mixer spawns out of thin air and I'm now a permanent decoration at Acme Anvil Factory LLC
If it's all grid-aligned that's not too difficult. Still be a crap game though.
Y'all buy this game😂 y'all are the target bots😂
Bold of you to assume the game will even implement any of that
lol I wish Arya Realty was still around.
He's still on x trying to convince people of ess greatness
He is.
Classic Kira "Arya Serious?" videos, man. I need to re-watch some of the really old stuff with the benefit of hindsight.
@@DemmyDemonmost of them got taken down I think, I can’t find them.
@@xeagaortso Kira and Arya made their cut off the videos and they serve no real purpose anymore?
Arya Serious?
I'm so happy we get some E2 updates again
pretty sure this whole game was setup by callum, only time he ever shows up on my feed is when he's talking about this game
Earth 2 makes the day before look like a well managed project
Every clips shown in background looks like they come from different games/asset packs with nothing linking them together clearly people never bought in it for any kind of game related content.
the animal animation is also weird because it looks really nice... right up until it jerkily stops pauses and jumps to a new idle.
@@NormandyFoxtrot Yeah the deer running looked good but that was probably from a starter pack as well
Anyone who put money into this with so many people showing them why that would be a bad idea... 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Look at those gains! 😂
"some people have hundreds of dollars worth of stuff, many people have forty to sixty thousand dollars worth of stuff on their profile"
wrong, its 0 dollars worth of stuff lmao
People put hundreds of thousands of dollars to this? Were they insane?
@@Shauma_llama these are cryptobros we're talking about
They're going to mismanage this hard enough to end up in prison
I smell a possible Exit Scam coming. Shane's gonna wish there was a 2nd Earth to hide from the Feds in.
I desperately hope so, because people should not be getting away with obvious ponzi scams that just so happen to use computers in there somewhere...
If I squint enough, the PvE gameplay in the background looks like DreamWorld.
lmao why tf is there skeletons and golems roaming around? how does the beach buggy off-road racing match with that? oh right.. there ain´t any.. wasn´t this scam supposed to be scifi/futuristic shite?
It's Dreamworld 2.0!
Racing games with skeletons to avoid isn't even a new idea, Lego Island did that in 1997. (Which is a much better game to play than Earth 2!)
they are just a simple purchase to distract the investors ;3. like shaking keys over a baby
Amazing, yesterday I was wondering what was going on with Earth 2, Chronicles of Elyria and Dreamworld. The drama of those projects made my days back in the Covid times
If you told me that Earth 2 was a project led by a literal child, I'd believe you given the context of these circumstances. Not paying devs, implementing a broken broke authentication system, kicking their moderator.
But it's not.
Though Shane Isaac continues to act like a braindead manchild, he is still an adult. And as sad as it is that some people fell for this guy's scam, the fact remains he's still scammed people.
I think some people just aren't cut out to lead a game studio. Hell, I'm probably one of them. If you know you struggle finishing projects, don't ask for people's money. Especially when your project is literally of planetary scale!
Happy to see you!
Callum. I feel bad that you reported on thsi... but THANK YOU! You are AWESOME!
I love these Earth 2 updates, it's my favorite internet drama
It's as if you knew I watched your interview video yesterday and dropped this just for me 😊 Thanks, daddy Upton
💦😆 😓
That water on face = cum
this video is absolutely insane, its like everything that couldve gone wrong, did go wrong all at once
Cant wait to play as a deer in earth 2
Thank you for covering this, I'm sick of concord this Concord that... or assassin this or maybe ps5 news..
I really want to see you talk to someone who is a big Earth 2 defender. Last time I heard about this project was years ago, that was when everyone was hype and saying so many millionaires were going to be minted
As a game developer the guy making earth 2 doesn't seem to have a stable idea on what Earth 2 is supposed to be apart from a money farm. this is why it will never be successful, games require a goal, a final idea. he keeps flip flopping on what he wants to do.
If ever there was a window, the opportunity is long closed.
Tier 1 channel supporter "if I change my name to something clever": I have read your nickname. You are seen.
combat system? since when did they decide to add a combat system? what even is this "game"? (i know there is no game, i mean their idea of it :D )
idk what it is, delusion, stupidity, or just good ol sunken cost fallacy, but this scam is going on for too long, it's time for them to go
"Fall apart like a British Bake-Off cake base" is savage.
Cryptobros when they found Second Life existing:
toxic positivity till the whole thing is ash. GJ!
So instead of real money they are giving them Monopoly money.
Monopoly money at least has a game you can play with it.
@@fredhurst2528 And a much, much better game at that!
If bafles me that they call this pictures in a google earth map as "land" 🤣
It baffles me that you'd buy virtual land in a metaverse. If you can't teleport you're tied down and won't see much of it, and if you can then there's almost no prime real estate.
People who regard their money so poorly that they would actually invest in Earth 2 would lose it anyway one way or another.
This "game" is all over the place, what is it even about?
Separating idiots and their money straight into Shane's pocket
3:30 love the Earth 2 series reference. I haven't seen it since it first aired but I was a big fan back in the day. I recently had a bit of a look at it on IMDb and thought I should try to track it down
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Unless there's evidence. Like there seems to be here.
Callum, please cover EVE Frontier!
I think we are going to have a lot of content to talk about this one.
I'll take a look for sure!
What a unique blend of a Ponzi, pyramid, and multi-level marketing scheme. How anyone thought it was a good idea to participate is beyond me.
These videos are always such a nice reminder for those of us who didn't invest in it, that we've made the correct choice
Not to give advise to any potential scammers... but why are they dragging this so much. Money is gone, dev team is gone, your discord mods are gone ffs... finish the operation already, there's no one left to milk for more money lol.
I hope they accept crypto in whatever place that doesn't have an extradition agreement with the U.S. that Shane escapes to...
I backed DRONE years and years ago. Still mad about Shane snapping them up.
If people have access to other people's account settings, wouldn't they be able to change those settings also? Meaning they could change the linked email address and phone number and effectively steal the accounts forever?
Now there's a scary thought...
the scary thought is if people left credit card info in, they could put more of your money into the burning pit
I'll disagree with one thing you said Callum: " it's not going to plan". It is definitely going to plan, just not the one that is available publicly.
They should have invested in earth 3 to be more inline with web 3.0.
26:43 cheers to “if I change my name to something clever then maybe someone will read it” you got me.
Earth 2 has clearly gone into it's "grab a new asset pack and shoe-horn it into a demo world to show how much work is happening" phase. Worked great for Dreamworld.
I love it when the situation is insane
any system that allows case sensitive usernames should be deleted immediately >:(
Ah yes, the revolutionary Nav Mesh tech, first conceived for robotics in 1986 and applied to video games at the start of the millennium.
Truly ahead of their time.
They basically sent the message "we don't have your money, it's gone."
So people bought tiles. Now what? Stare at the grass? Wow, what a load of fun.
The final phase has begun? Going from taking money to switching gears and finding ways to not give it back.
Lets be real. The incompetency was there from day 1 if you have coosen to not see it you are on your own. Now comes the ice berg and this ship will sink fast.
Amazing to see you return to the glory of E2
Dude, you called it from the beginning. 😂
Don't get me wrong, I make mods for games and sometimes I say "hey I am probably doing this thing" and somtimes, I don't have the time to do exactly what I say. The difference is that I don't expect people to give me money.
If I asked for money every time I had a game idea I'd be a serial scammer too 😂 Some people are just bad at finishing big projects. There's nothing wrong with that provided you don't take any money, or give everyone a refund. (Better to not take the money to begin with). Seems like Shane has dug himself a pit he can't escape from.
@@williamdrum9899 There's also not that much of an issue if you can tell that someone was dreaming big but overall couldn't do everything that they wanted.
But that's the exact point, here we can tell that they don't exactly want to do even that (all that "buy stuff, earn by selling etc." bs aside).
Wait what? A fantasy game? Wasnt earth 2 suposed to be some economy-sim? With modern buildings and shit? Why is there a cheap darksouls knockoff asset flip?
Because they are selling Knight-like skin (yep... they're selling skin without the possibility to play the game behind).
who could’ve ever predicted this?
22:51 Sounds like a Kurosanji tactic
Short answer is, if you have 4K to blow on this then you get no sympathy. If you have 300K to blow on this, then you know what you were trying to do and got rugged yourself.
The multi year saga continues. Love these videos
That $5k value looking suspiciously like interest gains on term deposits and the like that would be "acceptable losses" for Earth 2
Honestly that was my basically my immediate thought "Oh, they have some account they get interest on and that's below the interest levels."
this makes Dreamworld look good