NFT Game Review: MonkeyBall

After an extremely problematic initial drop/minting of 1000 NFTs on MagicEden on Tuesday, The MonkeyBall team tried again on their website today at 2:00PM UTC.

Watching the countdown timer on the website, awaiting my chance, I suddenly saw

(note the 17 seconds still left on the countdown).

Then, complete radio silence from the team for well over an hour. I had to go on to other things for a while and then found the following on their twitter site more than three hours later:

After an hour of not communicating at all, you can see that they stopped the sale and then resumed it hours later with the only warning being a tweet.

Users complaining are being quickly booted off their Discord site.

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I was already going to give them a bad review for insisting on releasing <7000 NFTs to a community that they knew was FIVE TIMES larger than that -- but the incompetence of and team behavior surrounding these two drops puts them on my list of "to be avoided like the plague".