I've been watching the zOMG thing unfold, and really its been... difficult. However at the time, all we had to go off of was what your staff said... And what, are we supposed to assume you're lying?
Well, from now on, that's exactly what I'll be assuming.
By the way, I have it screenshotted.
Everything he has said up until now. You can do damage control... but it wont help at this point. Not for me anyways.
Swarf himself removed his thread and replaced it with this.
You need to level with us. Be honest about why you're making the choices you're making. Why are you dropping development on zOMG? I've played other free MMOs. The users usually don't care. they speak ill of the staff and just complain about everything. But zOMG players do truly love zOMG. They love the devs. They support it, monetarily, when they can. And apparently, it HAS been pulling in a profit.
So, is it due to low user numbers? According to swarf, who really has no motivation to lie since its likely to get him in hot water with his employers, zOMG has more users per month than all other flash enviro's except Rally.
I don't know what to think about this Gaia. I was sad about zOMG but figured that it had just lost its long and arduous battle after this long. But.. it didn't. It didn't lose anything. You just tripped it up at the start.
And what Swarf is saying, proves me right all those times I said YOU were the ones who set up zOMG to fail. YOU did not put the advertising dollars in. YOU took devs away from it again and again and gave them
four months per year to do updates and bug fixes for a huge title.
Yet despite that zOMG continued on. And oh, you milked it. You milked the ******** out of the userbase you
know you have. More than once, zOMG users were given sales goals to meet, or zOMG would lose a dev... every time they met, and may have exceeded them. You've made bundles off of zOMG and paid almost nothing into it since the beginning.
You did this, Gaia. And I want an explanation.
I want an explanation for the lies.
I want an explanation for the deception.
I want an explanation for the
repeated milking of the userbase.
And most of all...
I want an explanation about why you're throwing it all away.
I want an explanation about why you just don't give a ******** about zOMG.
For once in your life I want you to be accountable to your users. Because this isn't funny anymore. You've betrayed a segment of your userbase that has done nothing but arduously support the thing they love. I want you to stand up, tell the truth, and learn the meaning of accountability.
You're going to kill the thing they loved. Finally going to strike the killing blow, after all this time of leeching the life out of it...
It is the
least you can do.