Don't get me wrong, I understand why, but don't know why people are so surprised at what is happening. These dapps aren't decentralized and the creators can do whatever they damn well please. They are the owners of the company and are going to do whatever they feel makes them the most money. They can shut down the game or the gambling site tomorrow for any reason as they please and, to my knowledge, there wouldn't be anything anyone can do about it from a legal standpoint.

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That's part of the risk of being an early investor. You could be a billionaire getting in and earning a lot of magic tokens in 10 years or 10 years from now very few people will still be on Steem that even remember magic dice. The Steem blockchain and all the dapps that are on it might not even exist 10 years from now.

Feel free to cry about it, but all I have to say is get over yourselves. I lost money when @zeartul was running @bellyrubbank and got "hacked" aka cut and run. I was just starting out on the platform, finally saved up enough sbd, 20, to deposit some funds and start earning interest. I almost had enough saved up to make another deposit when he decided to cut and run.

I was pissed and I complained about it, but when people started donating funds to help repay some of what people lost I told them just to split my 20 to others that had lost money. It was my decision and even though I didn't know it was a scam I had a feeling it was too good to be true and my fault that I didn't wait a little longer (he made payments the first month) to see if it was legit. I FOMOed in and I was willing to accept the consequences.

The definition of speculative

>engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge.

I have no knowledge of how these dapps are going to behave in the future. There is no smart contract that keeps most of these developers honest. I could invest 100s or 1000s of Steem into a card on SteemMonsters that I perceive is overpowered and the very next day they could decide to nerf that card into the ground making it "worthless" to players and only maybe worth something to speculators/investors. Same thing in drug wars for people spending a lot of Steem on troops only to have a change made to combat system making those units worthless.

At least it seems like the creators of these dapps at least want to stick around long enough to make some more money an who knows maybe they will be worth it in the long run, but hopefully all the people that are whining and crying learn a lesson that it's not always worth being an early adopter. Sometimes its the smarter move to wait and see how everything plays out before jumping all in. To slowly enter a position so if it all goes to zero it won't be a loss of more than you can handle.

I'm not trying to be an asshole right now as my point is to grow up, learn your lesson, and either move on or bite your lip and keep plowing ahead with the game. Drugwars and Magic Dice aren't investment opportunities. They are a game and a gambling site which pays out rewards from microtransactions and gambling profits which could dissappear as quickly as they appeared in the first place.