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Whoa, thought I'd check the 'Mourning' forums for a development/beta update and instead found this. MMORPG.com have delisted 'Mourning' from their list of games, shut down their 'Mourning' forums and have announced to no longer cover 'Mourning' at their site. How come?
Well, it looks like the 'Mourning' dev team was not exactly pleased with how the community at MMORPG.com behaved and -in the end- massively threatened MMORPG.com to take action. One has to be careful with any information that has been posted but it is rumored that they went as far as demanding that MMORPG.com reveals user information so they could ban these users from their own official forums and also exclude those people from beta.
The 'Mourning' staff then went ahead and claimed that they actually requested from MMORPG.com to remove everything 'Mourning' from the site.
MMORPG.com responded to this claim by saying that they have all the evidence to prove that the 'Mourning' staff has never requested anything like that but they have not (yet) made that evidence public.
Whatever is going on here, it sounds like the 'Mourning' team might want to reevaluate their public relations activities one of these days... oh, and their community relations as well as is evidenced by this post here ;) . Also, one of the developers made this rather amusing post at their forums today to explain the team's situation. Laying blame on the people with the money is always a good idea for sure. Here's a snip...So far LHE funded the game with around 95% of the money and the rest of 5% has been funded by me during time. Basically LHE can do whatever they want with the game, the code and everything. You must be aware of the fact the LHE is not a common publisher since they do not have any facilities to get the game in stores. In fact there are small chances that during the next 3 months to have the game on the shelves. But you must be aware that Dave ('the retard' 'moron' or whatever you want) spend an enormous amount of money from his own poket or from some other bussiness he may have to develop this game. I personally think that after he spent so much money he can be a little arogant.
I know that he is a pain in the ass sometimes and he pisses me off more often but in the end what it matters is that because of this man Mourning today is close to release. From what I know it is the only case in the industry when a MMO is financed by one person (since he is the only one in LHE) and it gets to the shelves. There is no group of investors, no one bought stocks into our company, we do not need to return no money to anybody, nobody can force us to develop the game as they want. All we need is to get the game in a playable state. |
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