8 yrs and 200 dev team w barely any progress, turns out The founder and his buddy were stealing all the money.
It smelled liked a scam half a decade ago with all the expensive packs and it turned out to be a scam after all.
Feel for the dev team, I hope Steven loses everything
Ashes of Creation creator Steven Sharif has been accused of orchestrating a $140 million fraud by one of their lead investors, Jason Caramanis, who also revealed:
- Steven never invested a penny of his own into the project
- Jason invested $12.5 million
- Multiple AoC investors come from MLM companies
- Robert Dawson put $80 million into the game
- No criminal charges have been filed