This is the report I sent to Kickstarter, under "This project breaks one of Our Rules." -> "Prototype misrepresentation". I tried to keep it to the facts that are 100% clear. There is a ton more shady stuff but I don't want to risk credibility on misrepresenting something tangential. I encourage everyone to write similar reports to Kickstarter (just scroll all the way down on the page).
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- This video has been clearly edited (knight outline): www.youtube.com/watch?noembed&v=G3WWuHgIwQ0
- A chess board in their promotional videos is created by a company that denies having worked with Regium.
- They have claimed to support connection to chess sites that are defunct.
- The shown pieces are not hand-carved Staunton pieces as claimed.
- The shown prototype(s) already appear to have all the features that they claimed to need the Kickstarter money for in previous videos.
- Spamming their own comments section to hide critical backer comments is also against the rules.
Further, the company behavior has been dishonest in every aspect: Fake team member images, listing team members that deny having any affiliation, threatening to sue a forum (!) over critical discussion in comments, using sockpuppet accounts on lichess.org, chess.com and Twitter to promote and defend their products.
No known or reputable third party has been allowed to experience, test or review their product, despite several offers from many sides. If the shown prototype actually existed and worked as shown, it would be beyond trivial for them to dispel all doubts about their product.
You have plenty of reports and an overwhelming amount of evidence that this project is entirely fraudulent. This is your chance to act on it accordingly.
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- This video has been clearly edited (knight outline): www.youtube.com/watch?noembed&v=G3WWuHgIwQ0
- A chess board in their promotional videos is created by a company that denies having worked with Regium.
- They have claimed to support connection to chess sites that are defunct.
- The shown pieces are not hand-carved Staunton pieces as claimed.
- The shown prototype(s) already appear to have all the features that they claimed to need the Kickstarter money for in previous videos.
- Spamming their own comments section to hide critical backer comments is also against the rules.
Further, the company behavior has been dishonest in every aspect: Fake team member images, listing team members that deny having any affiliation, threatening to sue a forum (!) over critical discussion in comments, using sockpuppet accounts on lichess.org, chess.com and Twitter to promote and defend their products.
No known or reputable third party has been allowed to experience, test or review their product, despite several offers from many sides. If the shown prototype actually existed and worked as shown, it would be beyond trivial for them to dispel all doubts about their product.
You have plenty of reports and an overwhelming amount of evidence that this project is entirely fraudulent. This is your chance to act on it accordingly.
