Pixelmon, a non-fungible token (NFT) venture that raised over $70 million earlier this month, has not too long ago revealed the artworks for which customers paid as much as $10,000…and the crypto neighborhood has been having a subject day with them ever since.

$70 MILLION LOOOOOOOOL pic.twitter.com/GAcfAuMlsS

— Cobie (@cobie) February 26, 2022

Whereas the definition of “artwork” is a extremely subjective matter, the general high quality of Pixelmon 3D fashions left the crypto Twitter flummoxed nonetheless—however undoubtedly not speechless. Customers have been lampooning quite a few “derpy” creatures since yesterday, stating that initial pitch images have little in frequent with the ultimate product.

expectation / actuality pic.twitter.com/uCMJy6WTni

— Cobie (@cobie) February 26, 2022

In keeping with DappRadar, the nameless Pixelmon staff promised customers to create “the most important and highest high quality sport the NFT area has ever seen.” To this finish, they launched a presale of NFTs, dubbed “Pixelmon – Era 1,” which concluded on February 7.

In the end, 7,750 NFTs have been offered through a Dutch public sale—that means their value dropped by 0.1 Ethereum (ETH) each 10 minutes—with a beginning value set at 3 ETH (round $9,500 on the time). Consequently, the Pixelmon staff has raised round $70 million from crypto fanatics in complete.

Disclaimer: I am disgusted and sorry for the neighborhood that has been screwed over by @Pixelmon. This video is in your honor. #Shitzelmon #Pixelmon #NFTs #OpenSeaNFT pic.twitter.com/ZMUq46otz9

— _wolfcube_ (@_wolfcube_) February 26, 2022

At press time, the ground value of Pixelmon NFTs has plummeted to 0.45 ETH (about $1,250) on NFT market OpenSea—a far cry from their preliminary minting value.

“A horrible mistake”

Commenting on the extensively ridiculed artwork reveal right now, the founding father of Pixelmon, identified solely as “Syber,” acknowledged that his staff “made a horrible mistake” and that he has let himself down.

“I’m not going to sugar coat it – we made a horrible mistake,” Syber wrote. “To place it merely, we’re sorry. That is unacceptable. We felt pressured to push reveal and the fact is we weren’t able to push the artwork work. This doesn’t symbolize the model and we’ll repair this as we’ve got let many individuals down with this reveal.”

To “repair” the state of affairs, nonetheless, Syber promised “to pledge $2,000,000 with the intention to fully revamp and redesign our NFTs at the next high quality” by hiring “a good studio to do these redesigns.” Evidently, the neighborhood was not pleased with this assertion as effectively, shortly noting that Pixelmon plans to spend solely about 3% of the raised funds to completely revamp its venture.

In the meantime, the builders reportedly had no points with spending the fund on private NFT purchases these days. As one consumer famous within the venture’s Discord channel, “Pixelmon use the fund shopping for bayc clone and azuki.”

“Market took a dip so our dev staff pockets bought a couple of nfts,” Syber replied with a smiling emoji.

In the meantime, sad NFT consumers shouldn’t maintain their breath in hopes of a refund since “that’s not how the area works,” in accordance with “Jason,” one other member of the Pixelmon core staff.

“I’m sorry y’all acquired rugged on Pixelmon however I hope this teaches the area a priceless lesson on the place to place cash,” one of many commenters inferred. “Undoxxed founders with no product being the final place on the earth to place $70m.”

It’s actually laborious to argue with that certainly.