Feel Good Period is Over.

[grimfaust]

People can read it however they want. <--That's really it there.
The point is that people only look at one thing on the entire web page.
Right or wrong isn't the point. It's the person claiming they should be shut down for false advertisement.

They should be, or take down the features list and only display what you get when you pay for the game. You can't list a ton of features luring in a person and let them buy it to find out which ones are in the game and which ones aren't, that's absurd. There's only one excerpt on the feature page stating what will be forthcoming, which is:
Evolution

Xsyon is constantly evolving. During the Prelude, characters start off as simple hunters, gatherers and scavengers. As societies will advance new features will become available to the larger, more civilized tribes and towns. These features will include:
Animal taming and riding.
Player comfort levels that affect actions.
In game message boards and mail system.
Agriculture.
Cooking with player created created recipes.
Armor decoration and enhancement system which can indicate achievements and status.
New content including armor sets, weapons, buildings and creatures.
Religion.


Join us in the Xsyon Forums for discussions of other potential unique features that we plan to develop and try out.


The rest , as laid out, is advertised as what's in the game. If you look at a products feature page that has no actual physical box, that's the marketable ploy of the product that you're selling. Given that you actually get no physical copy, that feature list is one in the same of what you would/should be seeing on the game box should there actually be one. If you bought a game in a retail store and it listed a bunch of features that you then logged in to find out weren't there, it would be the exact same scenario and that is false advertising. You can't claim a product has 'x' feature and then sell it as such when it clearly does not. You also can't rely on a fall back of 'oh, but it's somewhere on our forums saying those features aren't actually in game'. (( Which is funny because they DON'T even own up to that, or when they're actually going to work on putting them in.) The company needs to give their head a smack and reverse the process. What's in game should be on the features page and what's planned should be on the forums. Instead they lure people in with ideals that don't exist and they don't even explain on the forums when the actual features WILL be in. It's not a hard concept, if you don't have what you're selling, you don't adverstise that you do.

[Sirius]

I've been working on an MMO for awhile. Some of the many features:

*Realistic simulation of global economy, including partially randomized private capital parameters seeded by real-world data, global multinational banks and corporations, global supply and demand of commodities, state control of lending rates, and impact of natural disasters, economic panic, war, political turmoil, disease, and famine.

*Functional simulation of real-world ecosystem, from macroevolution right down to protein synthesis taking place inside simple organisms.

*Realistic simulation of tide and weather patterns modeled on over 1,000 terabytes of data from NOAA and the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office.

*NPCs that learn to display emotions and fall in love.

*And much, much more.


All features are implemented and playable. The server is currently up and running at 127.0.0.1, and the ping is outstanding. Due to our advanced game engine technology, no game client is required or provided.

Pre-orders are available now for USD $59.99 cash, check, or money order. Sorry, no C.O.D.'s. All sales final.

[Chibi]

Pre order presents?

[kergan]

Been in the alpha since I was born. Great game even if the grind is a little boring. Looking foreward to beta and then release...thanx for all your hard work!

Amen.