Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
ZED is frozen at the moment. You can access the site, but racing is down/frozen, and all transactions are either stuck or erroring out.
Breeding also quietly reset for anyone with a Tera Drop horse (the ones bought in the May 8th drop). Make note of this if you got a Tera drop horse, as your breeding just reset and you can do it again!
Bred a horse, as did Willie, but we haven't received it yet, even though this was like 7 hours ago.
They haven't announced that breeding reset for anyone with a Tera Drop horse. I just realized it on my own.
Anyone who had a Tera Drop horse who lost a breeding opportunity because of the errors now has it reset, but the downside is that you aren't getting back your original opportunity, which is bullshit. I sent a complaint about this to the customer support manager, but she says the decision is "out of her hands".
I'm concerned about a number of things with this project:
- It seems the big stables have a big "head start" on anyone else, and they basically won't be able to compete at high levels.
- Once the Genesis horses are all gone, this whole thing may crash in value.
- They keep driving away existing customers between the fails, the apathetic customer support, and the refusal to truly make up to people what they lost due to system glitches. They should be overly generous regarding compensation for these glitches, not taking a "shit happens, but it'll be better going forward" approach. They can't afford to lose existing customers because...
- The learning curve to get started is high, and their getting started tutorials aren't particularly good. It is much more difficult to get started with Zed than it is with NBA Topshot.
- From what I've seen during racing, there are relatively few stables pahticipating in it. This means that the active interest in the project is dying, and is possibly down to relatively few people. It is possible that a lot of people have given up, between the fails, the inequities between stables, and the fact that "donkey" horses aren't particularly useful (nobody wants to breed with them, and they keep losing).
- Customer communication is really bad. Nobody ever knows what the fuck is going on.
- It doesn't look like they had a good plan on what to do operationally with this project. They're flying by the seats of their pants.
I've had fun with this, but part of me wants to just sell my stable and get out. I'm holding for now, and in fact spent $200 on last night's breeding (which I think will produce a good horse), but we shall see where this goes.