Despite the “FUD,” Pixelmon’s founder Syber says he isn’t going anywhere.
The Pixelmon saga doesn’t look good. The well-funded NFT adventure game received strong reactions from the community after a disastrous reveal. But who is to blame?
Is Pixelmon Really The Next Blue Chip?
Back in December 2021, Syber – the user who founded the project – had declared that Pixelmon is the next blue chip. Fast forward to three months, the project’s founder says that the team needs more time to develop the game and expects that an alpha release should be out before the end of this year.
Billed as the first AAA-grade game in the NFT space, the team behind Pixelmon guaranteed that it would provide an immersive experience that required players to purchase NFT Pixelmon for a minimum of 3 ETH. NFT sales went live ahead of Pixelmon’s official reveal. Buyers are now wondering if the extraordinary price was justified.
A lot of users are unhappy with what they had spent money on. Many said that Pixelmon looks broken, while others called out for the project’s poor in-game art quality and rug pull allegations.
According to the latest data on CoinGecko, the current floor price of Pixelmon stands at 0.365 ETH.
Clarification
Without “sugar-coating” words, Syber acknowledged the fiasco and said that the release was unacceptable.
Community members, on the other hand, underline some of the Pixelmon assets appear straight out of stock Unity models. To these allegations, Syber responded,
“Both malbers animations and meshtint studios and a few other modeling groups were hired to create models for Pixelmon. None were stolen. We used unique models they created and we paid for them like you would with any model. Their assets from unity are not used in our nfts.”
The exec further clarified that the team has no plans to use the models in the actual game and added that they will use the funds raised to create better models and characters.
Emphasizing the hate and threats that Syber received on social media platform Twitter following the release, the exec said that he will not go anywhere and that the goal has not changed while adding that the funds will still be deployed to build the game.
As the Pixelmon team prepares to make amends, buyers will now have to wait for the project on board “famous figures” to create quality models.
