So I'm going to respond to this in concise points and address each complaint separately.
You are supporting a greedy developer who used your money to benefit himself instead of growing this community that we have grown to love.
As stated on the
Donate Page,
"We use these donations in order to pay for the operating costs of Solstice Game Studios, its developers, and the projects we run. However, at the end of each month, we donate <an amount> (changes depending on our income) to charity."
As a developer, I get a slice of that donation money, as do the other developers. The claim that I don't use the money to grow the community is flatly false as we pay for infrastructure, developers, and software for it on a regular basis.
Please don't support Winter, he has created a dictatorship, he has complete power over the server, this is why Gamer left (prior co-owner , Winter wanted complete control).
As I'm the sole owner of Solstice Game Studios, I suppose you could view me as a dictator, however I fail to see your point as video game communities are rarely ever democracies. Gamer5544 left of his own accord due to disagreements he and I had over how to communicate with and operate the community. I respect Gamer a great deal, especially due to the fact that he paid to get YukiTheater off my laptop and onto a dedicated server, helping the project to initially get off the ground. His leaving was simply a matter of differing visions.
He takes advantage of his moderators and admins, ask Treetotheworld or Mothership.
Being a moderator is a 100% voluntary position. Thus, I could not "take advantage" of them even if I wanted to.
They have tried to correct Winter in the past but he failed to comply and continued to run the server how he thought was "right".
I run this community mostly based on what the community appears to want as well as my own intuition. Unfortunately, what one part of the community wants may differ from what another part of the community wants and I have to choose one or the other. I cannot please everybody.
If he doesn't like you he will berate you, read all of your PM's and messages then permanent ban you.
I assume what you're generalizing is the drama involving Kierstycaeks and MeatBall. I read through their PMs and messages at the time because it was relevant to an ongoing investigation into MeatBall. I only ever read the chat logs if it's relevant to a staff investigation or moderator action as I am a firm believer in the concept of digital privacy. The frequency in which I even need to read the chat logs is far less than you are implying, with the frequency being once every 4 months or so. Nobody else has access to the chat logs other than me.
Look at what he said to Chi, he doesn't care about you or the community he just wants money for college.
What I said to Chi was supposed to be playful banter. I never said anything during that exchange that would imply that I don't care about the community.
I will be permanently banned from this discord and the server for saying this, but add me on steam I will send you all the information you need to conclude that he is a greedy prick who only cares about himself.
Yes you will be permanently banned, but only because most of what you've said here was only relevant nearly 2 years ago and is meant to do more harm to the community than to me, as you've posted this publicly in an attempt to cause discourse instead of contacting me privately. Once again, I care a great deal about the community. If I were only in it for the money, I can think of several ways that would be better uses of my time. If you don't believe me, I can tell you that we make less than part-time minimum US wage most months. Put bluntly, I could work at McDonald's and make more money.
Just read these two documents posted below, one being the magna carta, written by Hero and other prior Super Admins who genuinly cared about this communtiy, he failed to comply to its terms and pretty much disregarded it as a whole.
On the contrary, I bent over backwards to comply with the Manga Carta's terms, going so far as to alienate some of the moderators/super admins at the time that weren't included in the process of creating the document. If you don't believe me, please ask Pants or Nighthawk. Furthermore, almost all of the creators of that document have since left the community entirely or have become actively hostile against it, which to me shows a stunning lack of "genuinely caring" about the community.
Second is an apology letter that Winter half heartedly wrote after being exposed, he CONFIRMS AND ACKNOWLEDGES SPENDING YOUR DONATION MONEY FOR PERSONAL GAIN.
I actually wrote that apology letter in full confidence and attempted to be as transparent as possible. Furthermore, if you actually read it, it outlines how I intended to change how I ran things, all of which I've either upheld or changed with current staff input.
Lastly, and perhaps most important, if you look at when the Manga Carta and Apology Letter were dated, they were March 16th, 2015 and May 31st, 2015, respectively. Your implication that any of this somehow bears any relevance after nearly 2 years, to me, is astonishing.
