Werbitum

I've always been a fan of Bored Ape Yacht Club, but they consistently disappoint (especially gamers). After Hvmtl, they've really gone too far with Dookey Dash. Let me explain: They relaunched Dookey Dash in a new version, in partnership with Faraway, promoting the game and the app on the App Store—which they've strangely now removed. They advertised a $1 million tournament, posting about it practically everywhere (as shown in several screenshots). Initially, they stated clearly that the prize would be paid in ApeCoin—not one million ApeCoins, but $1 million worth of ApeCoin. However, after the tournament concluded in late January—and after gamers spent thousands of dollars to qualify, as the game was deliberately designed as pay-to-win, aiming for the advertised $1 million (not $500k)—it emerged that the prize would be paid in ApeCoin valued at the token’s price on the drawing date, January 22, 2025. At that time, ApeCoin was worth $1.02, whereas now it's dropped to about $0.555 (almost half). Consequently, the advertised "$1 million prize" effectively became only around $500k. Additionally, the only page mentioning the prize valuation date explicitly stated that winners would receive their prize within 60 days of the drawing. Yet, 62 days have now passed, and no one has received their payout—making the single line they rely on to justify themselves completely meaningless and pointless. Why specifically choose January 22 to value the prize? Right after that date, they started distributing hundreds of thousands of dollars in ApeCoin to holders and winners of Apechain competitions, predictably causing significant depreciation of the token's value. This scenario was entirely foreseeable and deeply unfair to those who hadn't yet received their prize. Moreover, when contacted via email, the official BAYC team explicitly stated that the total prize would be $1 million valued at ApeCoin’s current market price—not at the January 22 rate. I've never witnessed worse management, characterized by misleading advertising and utter disrespect toward gamers who've invested real money, not even honoring their own timelines. How should gamers respond when their prizes are arbitrarily cut in half overnight for no valid reason?