On April 01 2012 09:55 Fionn wrote:
I feel bad for the players, but if this is an April Fools joke, some dude or group really had a lot of fucking free time to put this together.

and a bad sense of humor

nick1689

Australia494 Posts

April 01 2012 04:17 GMT

#284

If this is a april fool's joke, it is a bad one... But then eclypsia is only a small team (in the sc2 scene afaik), and this publicity would atleast put them on the map

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

April 01 2012 04:17 GMT

#285

On April 01 2012 13:17 nick1689 wrote:
If this is a april fool's joke, it is a bad one... But then eclypsia is only a small team (in the sc2 scene afaik), and this publicity would atleast put them on the map

and in completely the wrong way

CrazyAsian

United States188 Posts

April 01 2012 04:59 GMT

#286

So the timer ran out, and nothing happened...

Battleaxe

United States843 Posts

April 01 2012 05:07 GMT

#287

Omg I hope they disappear and that was a countdown until theyd be off the rader..would give mad props for that after posting here lol.

Seriously though timer is done and nothing happened, lame.

insanet

Peru439 Posts

April 01 2012 05:09 GMT

#288

this thread should be closed, if this remains open TL is encouraging other teams to do the same PR move.

TheTurk

United States732 Posts

April 01 2012 05:17 GMT

#289

As the TL community, let's all go piss on their lawns.

Daray

6006 Posts

April 01 2012 05:22 GMT

#290

There sure are a lot sensitive people in here

Yamulo

United States2096 Posts

April 01 2012 05:25 GMT

#291

On April 01 2012 14:09 insanet wrote:
this thread should be closed, if this remains open TL is encouraging other teams to do the same PR move.

What are you talking about?

xSixGeneralHan

United States528 Posts

April 01 2012 05:29 GMT

#292

im pretty sure its not publicity. my guess would just be that whatever private funding was behind this got used up fast, and they promised way too much etc. and they are just reaping the consequences.

TelecoM

United States10890 Posts

April 01 2012 05:31 GMT

#293

Was the timer on they're website really supposed to run out on april fools? If that is so I find that kind of crazy... lol. T_T I'm not saying 100% it is or was I just thought I read someone saying that earlier in this thread, can't find it. >_<

borny

China481 Posts

April 01 2012 06:07 GMT

#294

Looks like a strong timing from ASD incoming

ThePlayer33

Australia2378 Posts

April 01 2012 06:10 GMT

#295

On April 01 2012 15:07 borny wrote:
Looks like a strong timing from ASD incoming

indeed

supsun

United Kingdom343 Posts

April 01 2012 06:17 GMT

#296

Hire Jason Lake to sue.

Haydin

United States1481 Posts

April 01 2012 06:20 GMT

#297

Wow, that's a shame. Sounds like you guys really got screwed. Hopefully you'll all get picked up by a serious, honest organization. Best of luck!

Ruscour

5233 Posts

April 01 2012 06:20 GMT

#298

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This is seriously bizarre to the max. We shall see what happens in however long this is happening over.

Eclypsia is seriously a lot of work just to be a joke. They even have this ASCII art in the source of their front page.

Eiii

United States2566 Posts

April 01 2012 06:45 GMT

#299

On April 01 2012 15:20 Ruscour wrote:
They even have this ASCII art in the source of their front page.

ASCII art: The true sign of devotion.

This whole thing seems more like just another case of an up-and-coming overoptimistic team running into funding issues and dealing with it poorly than an elaborate april fool's joke.

...though admittedly, if it *is* just a joke, it's pretty well thought out. I mean, they've been manning their facebook page for at least a month now!

Aterons_toss

Romania1275 Posts

April 01 2012 06:59 GMT

#300

I really question your decision to make this public, if you had a valid contract that you could defend in court you could and should have done so and as a result get the money, or more likely just threaten them to do so and they would have scraped the money and gave it to you when they could.
You weren't getting a salary if you didn't had a contract via which they are obliged to pay it to you, if you were getting your money as a "gift" to avoid the taxes and/or avoid the legal hassle OR the team simply didn't want to sign a legit contract with you... than tough luck, that's why so many people chose to get payed legally at jobs where the taxing is around 30-40% of what you could get without the taxes, if you are not bound by a contract any party can fuck the other at any time.
Hence the fact that you came here is kinda silly, what are you hoping to obtain ?
If the team is bankrupt/it was a scam than you are not getting the money...
If the team is going trough a hard time, than you might have gotten the money, now you just got them even further in shit and the chances of you getting the money are smaller than before
If you have a contract via which you can request compensation and/or the money you were promised... than i really don't see the point of coming here and screwing them over before they said "Fuck you, we won't give you any money, go sue us" - at that point its worth making them bad reputation, before that point.. does it help you in any way ?

If IEM gets bashed for not giving money on time than that might make them give the money on time, if a team that is ether a scam, bankrupt or going trough a tough time financially is not giving you the money than i don't see what bashing them would help with other than the chance of you making the situation worse.

I might be wrong but, if so, pleas tell me why.