Do FFXVANEHUB.com employees work for MZ or it's just as simple as a Russian Collusion?

Update: October 18th, 2019 - Gamerspeaks.io is back online and people can see the actual website. It was off line for about 4 months due to this blog. https://www.gamerspeak.io/solution/

There have been speculations and misconception that the people posting for www.ffxvanehub.com are working for MZ aka Machine Zone (the game developer of the Game of War: Fire Age (GOW), Mobile Strike (MS), World War Rising (WWR), Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire (FFXVANE) and the soon to be released Crystalborne: Heroes of Fate) as a paid vendor = making them In Direct employees of MZ. 

This writer can not say whether or not, the employees of the www.ffxvanehub.com or it’s parent company, www.gamerspeak.io (Original name: App Scrolls Inc – according to CaliforniaSecretary of State Filing and DBA (Doing Business As Filing from San Luis Obispo County of Gamerspeak.io), are under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) with the games developers such as MZ. All this writer can do is present the evidences that were collected via Google searches. Readers should come to their conclusion based on the evidences that are provided here.

After reading this article and browsing the screen shots provide, you will be able to understand / know the truth of whether FFXVANEHUB.com employees work for MZ or it's just as simple as a Russian Collusion? 

App Scrolls Inc. was established by Chad Kihm and Matthew Ortiz and incorporated in the State of Delaware (filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on February 2, 2015), and filed with the California Secretary of State on August 24, 2015. Prior to forming the official company, both Chad Kihm and Matthew Ortiz were players of the Game of War: Fire Age (GOW) developed by Machine Zone (it was prior to re branding as MZ on April 4^th, 2016). During that time, this writer was also a GOW Player and remember speaking with or being asked by Chad Kihm (Line App handle: Navi) about the game’s mechanics including asking for screen shots of battle reports, what this writer liked / disliked about the game, any opinions, etc…). When people asked how he (Chad) was going to make money, Chad stated that he was in the early stages of partnering with game developers like MZ – wish this writer saved that in game chat!!!)

Soon after, www.gameofwarrealtips.com was born. The website feature tips, tricks, new releases, etc… that players in general are looking for. It became a success since this was the only site that has almost complete awareness of the game.

Fast forward few years ………………………………..

This writer “retired” from GOW and started playing the new game: Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire. Soon after playing the game, this writer run across a web site (www.ffxvanehub.com) that seems to have lots of information just like www.gameofwarrealtips.com and started to wonder, if there are any affiliations with these two sites. After browsing through the contents and reading the Terms of Service on both web sites, this writer realized that both sites are being operated by an App Scrolls Inc aka Chad Kihm’s company. This was prior to their name change to www.gamerspeak.io.

Fast forward again to February 13^th, 2019. This writer attempted to reconnect with Chad Kihm aka Navi (on Line App) to see if his company (www.ffxvanehub.com) can cover the FIRST FFXVANE Boycott / Strike / Revolt. Of course, this writer knows that Chad Kihm and www.ffxvanehub.com employees are working for MZ as vendors but not too sure whether or not, they can divulge that information. (see the screen shots below of the conversations between this writer and Chad Kihm (Navi) at the bottom of this page.)

Chad Kihm politely declined to cover the Boycott / Strike / Revolt since according to him, “ultimately it takes players out of the community” “We definitely participate in sharing our disappointment with mz privately during times like this”.

Another few weeks have passed and there were more evidences of conspiracy between MZ and FFXVANE emerges on FFXVANEHub’s Discord channel – which this user have nothing to do with for once - and many people were kicked or banned from the channel. (since this writer is not a part of the channel, this writer can not confirm or deny that it ever happened but was told by several it happened). People were upset that FFXVANEHub was hiding the fact that they are the in direct employees of MZ (MZ pay App Scrolls Inc, App Scrolls Inc pay their respective game’s Q&A Chat / Discord moderators, bloggers, graphic design team, etc… Since them www.gamerspeak.io is on the lock down mode = no pages are available for public viewing but this writer was able to find some info from web.archive.org. (Have you ever wondered how they always have the exact copy of the buildings and maps on www.ffxvanehub.com? Are the people of www.ffxvanehub.com people replicating buildings in that detail that good or they are getting those from someone?)

On April 26^th, 2019, this writer received a phone call from the General Counsel aka Head Lawyer of MZ (not going to mention her name) asking where I am getting the confidential information from? This writer was taken by the question since this writer does not work for any game developers or have direct contact (speaking / email/ chats, etc…) with any direct employees of any game developing companies especially MZ. The lawyer asked me several specific questions (paraphrasing and to the best of my recollection) which I answered honestly. One of the question was “Are you getting your information from Chad Kihm?”. When this writer said who?? (due to poor connection), she repeated “Are you getting your information from Chad Kihm, the gamerspeak people?”

This particular call was about

- How this writer came to knowledge of their new and upcoming game, Crystalborne: Heroes of Fate ---- Found it via GOOGLE Search of MZ IP Holdings, LLC (list of MZ Companies / Subsidiaries / and LLCs)

- How this writer obtained their confidential GDC presentation agenda (which was just a speculation of this writer)

- How this writer knew that they (MZ) hired an IPO Specialist

- How this writer knew Chad Kihm

The called ended gracefully and in this writer’s opinion, the caller was polite, stern (sort of intimidating), but to the point. It was one of those conversations that you would reminisce for a while .. LOL

All this writer can do is present the evidence (no .. this is not criminal and don’t ask me the Chain of evidence. They are all collected via public search engine, Google!), and it is up to each and every writer to see what is the truth, not the truth, and what is hidden behind a probably iron clad NDA. Since there are many words floating around in the air due to political climate, you must ask yourself! Does this have anything to do with Russians or is it a Russian Collusion? May be - we may have to ask Robert Mueller for assistance!