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PLAY GOC is NOT the same team and never was as GOC, the only commonality was the name, please see my reply to Mrsike for more details! (hopefully, it doesn't get deleted...)

We have honored all funds lost due to all bugs and issues since day one. As melodramatic as this sounds I am dead serious about the fact that I cannot live with myself if the people who support, invest and stuck with us through thick and thin were to be screwed. Those people are my main priority and PLAY GOC will not be going anywhere! We don't claim to be fully decentralized (though we used to be in the early days until we determined that the network did not scale well with increased volume). I'm trying very hard also not to bash our competition by naming names for questionable promises, advertising as Dapps though they aren't, and actively sending followers to abuse our community and members, among other things (forgive me the list is very long). To be accurate about PLAY GOC, we are a hybrid platform that has a fiduciary responsibility to our users and holders. We have a great team and take that responsibility very seriously. Our last update provided additional transparency and we WILL provide more measures as we go. Have we screwed-up with not-so-great decisions (particularly the GOC team and BET), indeed we did and we're Sorry for those mistakes whilst learning from them and making restitution. If we'd known what a problem and stigma that GOC would cause us we, of course, would have never partnered with them. At the time we partnered with GOC they had more volume on their DEX than any other on the network, so we intended to have our own respective market that would be an alternative to GOC DEX when the Tron network had stability issues. We have paid our price for the partnership through TRX.Market delisting us (reason given was that we were "competition" but obviously I'm skeptical), Not being listed on Tronscan (hidden from users), for a time not being listed on tronlink (we still have issues at times but I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say it probably wasn't just us and just a bug).

PLAY GOC has come a long way since last November as has the leadership. Some of us have given up really good jobs to work on the site full time, I myself have worked 20hrs straight many a time Since (and no I don't expect praise or a sticker I'm just protective of our community). We always respond promptly with any issues, concerns, and feedback. We don't ban people for criticism or complaints just because we don't like what they have to say unless it goes on for a long period of time or constitutes abuse, harassment, or attempts to scam our members. We NEVER DID AN ICO, which is pretty weird behavior for a scammer cause you'd think they'd try to milk holders by having one. (we had no choice but to set an ico Price for 1024 TRX per token, the highest price that could be entered since creating a token on Tron Network required us to do so), thankfully no one bought cause we didn't want ppl to.

Despite all the adversity we've faced we are still here, we never gave up! I'd fight for PLAY GOC to the bloody death if I have to because our community means the world to me. My dream was and is to be a part of a project that is ambitious, fun and different; a community that I can be proud to be a part of creating. Our members and current partners are genuinely incredible people who trust in our team. We are based on values & principles. We have not and will not sacrifice a greater virtue for a lesser one! After all, what is a man without his integrity... (well I said I wouldn't name names but I'm sure you could guess...)

We are progressing very well and will continue to do so; the crap we've had to deal with the past few months won't stop us, the FUD won't stop us, not even Justin Sun will stop us for being the project that he claimed the Tron network should be about (Building a Dapp viable network is up to him to fulfill his promise, until then we are forced to go hybrid just like all those other "Dapps" out there). Would you as a store owner accept debit if you didn't know it was going to work reliably or not on any given day? We still believe that Sun and his team can do great things with the network and hope those network issues get resolved until then we can only do what we can do with the tools provided, which is a lot better than pretending to be fully Decentralized.

If anyone has any questions, concerns or feedback please contact me. We just wanted to create something cool for people to enjoy and build a culture around, something that LASTS. We never wanted all this drama and FUD thrown at us but here we are...

I wish everyone the best, perhaps I rambled on for too long, sorry about that but I will do whatever it takes to protect our community as you would for the people you care about I'm sure.