But do we really want to be friends with people like that? I can’t believe that was the response, esp. since THEY started on Kickstarter.
I have no clue how far ToL was in development at the time, but is is possible they thought you were a scam, to be fair.
No way, at the time we had a pretty professional trailer made. Our gfx looked like playdough, but it was very official and well-thought out with a giant Wikia. The Kickstarter, itself, took us over 6 months to plan and it was a beautiful ks page (found here). Either way, I’ve never seen anyone so rude. For example, when I talked to Mafia Universe admins, they welcomed us with open arms – Thingyman, I believe his name was.
I think what happens is that we expose the roots of the genre while “other games” pretend they are the first of the genre. Perhaps this intimidates some people.
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Capitalism is cut-throat, xblade. Not everyone is as courteous as you are 
I don’t believe anyone would have thought ToL would be a scam by looking at the Kickstarter page.
I DO think there is a big opportunity in the market for an alternative electronic social deduction game similar to ToS, and many others (obviously Imperium42) have realized this as well. Now it is a race to the top.
I like Throne of Lies. It’s a little quirky with its graphics and executions, but the gameplay is solid and no game is ever the same, allowing for a ton of replayability with relatively minimal effort.
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tmw conversions help the game to be more replayable lol
As long as we don’t get too competitive, ToL will always have that going for it.
-communism intensifies-
They might not have though it was a scam, but thought it was going to fail and didn’t want to bother with it.
They were probably like “oh fuck another social deduction game we should discredit them immediately”
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