Shu
Celestial Council
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Location : Singapore
IGN[Game NickName] : Ashura/Iori Yagami
Current Status : Busy at Work
Registration date : 2008-03-31
 |  Subject: Earth Eternal - Some Bad News  Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:39 pm | |
| http://www.eartheternal.com/#
| | | Theres no way to disguise what Im about to tell you as good news, so I wont
try. Unfortunately, Sparkplay has hit hard times and is not going to survive. I
had to lay off all of our staff except for two people (one of which is me) on
Friday, and its likely that by this time next week neither of us will be with
Sparkplay any more either. The simple fact is that weve run out of money. Ive
been out trying to sell Sparkplay or get further investment for it for the last
2 months without success, and our last hope crumbled this weekend.
What does this mean for Earth Eternal? The answer is that its hard to tell. Were
putting it up for auction today and are reasonably confident that someone will
buy it and keep it running. There is, however, the chance that nobody will want
to take on the cost of running it. If that happens, Earth Eternal will go down
when our internet and hosting provider pulls the plug for non-payment. Its hard
to tell when that could happen, but itll certainly be here at least another
week, at minimum.
I know this comes as a crushing blow to many of you, and believe me, I and the
rest of the former Sparkplay staff share those feelings, times ten. Some of us
have been working on Earth Eternal for over four and a half years and have
poured our hearts and souls into it and Sparkplay. We worked our asses off and
through the long hours, frustrating bugs, and occasional problems so bad we had
to laugh, we became a very tight team as well as good friends. It is incredibly
disappointing to everyone that its come to this.
Im sorry. Ive failed you despite my best efforts. Ive never worked harder in my
life, but it wasnt enough. Things that we planned on happening didnt, and things
we didnt plan on happening did. I dont want to go into a lot of detail and I
dont want to try to shift responsibility to anyone but myself. Theres really
nothing I can say other than I am very very sorry to have let you down.
Ive turned off the ability to buy credits now or earn them via offers/surveys.
Im also going to set all non-permanent items in the credit shop to cost nothing
so that everyone can have some fun, though wont be doing that for a few hours.
I will keep you updated as to what is going to happen with Earth Eternal, but in
all likelihood we wont know until late on Friday whether someone is going to buy
EE and keep it running or not. Lets hope for the best!
Until then, enjoy yourselves and help yourselves to the forthcoming free credit
shop items.
Sincerely,
Matt Mihaly, CEO (not for much longer) Sparkplay Media
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