I understand where you are coming from. I myself am not big on asset flip games and normally don't support them and block them if I see them on SG. I don't even remember if it was 2014 or 2015 I made a donation but it was awhile ago. I didn't really look into asset flips back then. I saw potential for an awesome PVP game and with Archeage ending up the way it did I decided to donate to Gloria Vicitis. MMORPG.com did a video and an article on it. If you check out the old compared to the new and the update list you will see how far it's come. I can't speak for how gameplay is as I mentioned I haven't played in a long time but it looks so much better than before. The devs were really nice when I talked to them as well. Now if I didn't own the game and knew nothing of it and then saw your post there's a good chance I would probably treat it like other games that I found out were asset flips.

That doesn't necessarily make it an assets flip. A developer may purchase assets from the store and make his own game, that's fine.

An assets flip is when someone purchases something that's fully functional (a demo/tutorial, or assets that come with a game as an example) from the assets store and just resells that, with no more than some minimum modifications at best.

This doesn't look like an assets flip since the links you provided are only assets, they're not a demo MMO or something like that the the dev is trying to resell.

Well, that I suppose does not surprise me since we now live in a society where it easier to hate everything from past experience than it is to think you know not everything is bad just because a few apples spoil.

You would think people would learn from this instead I guess it just easier to turn into hate and distrust for everything to come no wonder this world is in such chaos.

"Asset Flipping" is a term that refers to the practice of building a game almost entirely out of pre-made assets with little original work

So if it is true they bought assets then let's see if they make it there own and not just plop it down for a generic look then we can talk about asset flipping.Though still I think then if they make a good game I don't see it as a problem we all have to start some place.

I might have but I don't feel it's worth bothering anyone over something as trivial as this :) (It's also good as therapy to refrain from buying a game I'm slightly interested in lol)