You've already spent infinitely more time on this thread than it would have taken to make a single 100 character twitter or even two from your mynecraft respectable twitter account. Twitter is a stupid technology that allows people to make stupid tweets about what stupid things doing throughout the day. It's not time consuming to make a twitter, unless you're one of those individuals whose life centers around twittering everything they're doing. A twitter would have made a HUGE difference and the fact that you keep saying it wouldn't have. So honestly,I have no idea what you're going on about your daughter. She seems to be peppered into this thread to sort of lay on guilt and I resent that. We're talking about a period of a week here, not a few precious moments where you were apparently struggling to get gas money to go get medicine for your daughter.
I just don't buy the whole story at all. None of it seems right, none of it makes sense. You have a family that is willing to post on a message board coming to your defense, but they can't help you monetarily so you can take care of your daughter... no mention of the ghostly mynecraft support staff who don't seem to have ever existed(who could have handled all the stuff in Steve's absence, at least posting some sort of update).
None of it... makes sense. It's just a story that keeps unraveling and that's frankly what pisses me off about the whole thing at this very moment.
Please people, if you get your refunds, if you get your maps back, please post updates to this thread.
I'll certainly be sure to make an update if I get a refund on my last month, and the world I was managing at raziaar.mynecraft.com
Seriously? I just started posting on this thread yesterday. I never tweeted, never posted, never did anything regarding Mynecraft until I had at least a molecule of sanity in my body.
My sister that came to my defense? Did I mention they are all LIVING IN A MOTEL ROOM? How would she be able to help me with my daughter and her medicine when neither of us had a dime to our name? She was supposed to drive the 90 miles on a prayer? Go ahead and get directions yourself from New Milford to Enfield. 90 miles. With no gas, nor money for gas.
You get as pissed as you'd like. It must be easy for you to be pissed about my story "unraveling". Because this is MY life. MY ****ing life that is falling apart.
Friend me on facebook. Look at my posts. There are ones about my Autistic son and comments between my friends and I about how he can't be released.
Check craigslist. Northwest CT. You will find a WoW mouse, WoW headset, and a Kindle. Because I HAVE NO MONEY. Soon there will be Steve's beloved Alienware up there that will hopefully get me enough for a piece of **** car, since the days left with my Prius are numbered.
Whatever Steve told you about bringing in extra support is of no consequence to me. That seems to be the most irrelevant of anything you said.
So please tell me, what is it about my horrible ****ing situation that you believe is unraveling? I wish I were making this up. I truly wish I was doing nothing but spewing lies to cover Steve's, and apparently my own ass. You think I would make up such a story about my children and how uncertain their future is? Well, that really pisses ME off. My children are my everything, which is why I had to sell my laptop so cheap because Betty was sick.
Yeah, you have a lot of nerve to be pissed about my shitty situation.
Fitzy. Let me lay on a bit of advice here.
If your story is true, do not continue spending time on this website. You're basically saying mynecraft(and minecraft) is of no consequence to you... so why are you on this forum? Stop coming on here, do as you said you were going to do and refund all of the good people their money as you said you are able to. That's all you really need to do. Why do you continue to make post after post on this website trying to defend yourself? Just refund the money.
Stop making post after post that just keeps layering on more and more stuff that you're expecting us to somehow know about your situation. If your most pressing concerns are with your family and your children, for the love of god stop posting on the minecraft forums and do what you have to do.
I mean you said you were going to try and refund that money and send out those maps to people... so what keeps compelling you to come back here? You're only making it harder on yourself.
And off on the previous tangent, the extra support staff at Mynecraft is not the most irrelevant of the things I said. It is the most important of the things I said, the biggest piece to this puzzle. Those people not doing their job or making their presence known are a huge part of the reason this thread here exists. That's a simple fact of the matter. The fact that you press it aside as completely irrelevant is completely puzzling.
Nobody has the intent of ruining your life any more than what you already say is going on with it. They're trying to get their money back and trying to wonder why all of their cards were charged well before they were supposed to be. It's a SERIOUS deal and people are going to be behaving EMOTIONALLY concerning it especially since it screams fraud. You should understand that.
Why would I not be on here to defend myself? It's 11:30 at night. There is nothing I can do right now to better my situation. Everyone needs to chill on the refunds. I already stated I processed the refunds. As with anything other credit card refund, it takes 7-10 days to clear. It take the same amount of time for the funds to come through to us.
The incorrect billings could of been any number of things. A wrong button, confusion through our merchant services. I put the refunds through, constantly mentioning it is not going to process them any faster.
And the extra support staff? I've stated before that Steve fails to fill me in on things most of the time. While doing SEO in 2008 he had an assistant for 4 months before I found out. I cannot answer for him about anything I am unaware of.
I have something to say to all you people who apparently have nothing better to do in your life than try to figure out why Steve and Erin would be ripping you off. Well let me tell you I'm her sister and they did nothing wrong life happens and how many of you have been by their side since Friday? Oh that's right none of you cause all you can do is ***** about your dam game. You shallow,selfish people make me absolutely sick God for bid something happens to you and your family ill be the first one to say who gives a **** about you and your family! You can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned I hope you all rot in hell.
Shame on you..
If you ran a business you have the obligation to tell people that your service is not running. They did do something wrong. Very wrong. Made a lot of people upset and made some even cry for their loss of time, effort and money.
Let me make this clear, we are not bitching about a game. we are bitching about TIME AND MONEY, both invaluable.
We have every right to track whoever down to resolve the issue. A simple message on the website or messageboard or twitter or ANYWHERE! would have Stopped this all from happening.. only one (or two) people you can blame, and its nobody here.
We had no idea that there were any issues going on and would have been -very- respectful if we had.
I guess your Steve is the center of the universe for you right now. But don't expect it to be for us. I ask that nobody contacts the family directly in the future.
Its not fair of you to attack Erin and I'm sure Steve would have let everyone know had he not been carted away Friday night. I'm sorry but you are acting like she purposely ripped you people off really? For 9,15, or even 25 bucks? She is doing her best to get everyone refunded. ., when you are married and have children a lot of times the husband is the center of the family and when he gets ripped out it might take a little bit to figure out what to do like how are the kids gonna eat and have clean diapers? And you are right about tracking whoever to resolve the issue................not attacking someone and saying all kinds of mean things and making my sister cry because she has a lot on her plate right now................its called compassion for your fellow man something apparently not too many of you on this website have. She is doing the best she can right now so just relax and she will get whatever needs to be done done. But my niece and my nephew come first any day of the week I'm sorry if that inconvienences you in any way but that's the way it is.
My turn... and when I'm done here there's going to be a lot of people feeling pretty stupid. On both sides of this.
Last night Erin (Fitzy) gave me the server account credentials and I've been spending what time I could trying to figure out how things were setup. It appears that there are about 191 or so different servers setup, and it's clear that they were in the middle of being transferred/upgraded when Steve was arrested. If you're not smart enough to verify that Steve Hammerly is currently sitting in jail in Connecticut with a $290,000 bond right now, I'm not going to spend any time trying to convince you that it's true.
I started this because I really wanted to be able to download my World file, and at the same time help some of the other people that feel they've been "scammed" to recoup some of their lost time by making it possible for them to download their own World files.
But in the process, I've been able to access the email accounts for steve@ and [email protected], and I've found something that pretty much convinces me that no matter what Steve's past mistakes have been, it wasn't his intention to scam people here.
On 10/21/2010 at 10:00am, Steve saved this email in his Drafts folder:
Notch,
Let me preface my email with saying congrats on all that's happening for you. It's good to see someone make it off thier hard work. I'm incredibly happy for you, and you've started a huge community. Good work.
Well, I've been pestered by soem friends, co-workers and customers to contact you. I shrug it off, and say "he's far too busy to be bothered by me". Nonetheless, one of my customers (raziaar) told me I would be common courtesy to check in with you if I'm making a dollar of your hard work. And I am.
I started hosting Minecraft servers a couple of months ago for friends, and people that were looking. I charge very little, but it's getting huge now. I'm receiving several dozen orders per day and I was able to quit my job and do this full-time.
I use a custom server wrapper to get some extra commands, but I use your default minecraft_server.jar as well as a modified version of the mysql database (just added some extra columns). We also verify names.
I could go on and on about it, and thank you profusely. Just know that I'm happy for you, and the madness you're experiencing right now will be worth it in the end. Hell, it's worth it now, you're bringing happiness to a lot of people.
If you have any concerns with what we're doing, just let us know. You're the boss.
Thanks,
Steve
With that in mind, I really find it very hard to believe that it was his intention to scam people. When you add Erin's willingness to give me (a complete stranger) access to the whole thing, I just don't see how it's possible.
Again, if you're still too stupid to insist you were scammed, I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise. I've had absolutely no access to the billing side of this thing, and my guess is that a lot of the billing is setup automatically and Erin has very little control over that side of the thing.
So here's the deal, I believe I can make everyone's world file available for download. I'm going to do it BY REQUEST only, and in the order of the requests I receive. I have no idea how long the account at their server space is going to be available, so if you want it I suggest you request it as soon as possible. The ONLY place I'm going to take requests is by a private message here on this forums. I don't want a bunch of irate messages in my email demanding my attention. I promise you, rude people will go to the end of the line.
Scotti, I request you please make my map available for download oden2005.mynecraft.com PM'ed you as well.
Thank you.
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My turn... and when I'm done here there's going to be a lot of people feeling pretty stupid. On both sides of this.
Last night Erin (Fitzy) gave me the server account credentials and I've been spending what time I could trying to figure out how things were setup. It appears that there are about 191 or so different servers setup, and it's clear that they were in the middle of being transferred/upgraded when Steve was arrested. If you're not smart enough to verify that Steve Hammerly is currently sitting in jail in Connecticut with a $290,000 bond right now, I'm not going to spend any time trying to convince you that it's true.
I started this because I really wanted to be able to download my World file, and at the same time help some of the other people that feel they've been "scammed" to recoup some of their lost time by making it possible for them to download their own World files.
But in the process, I've been able to access the email accounts for steve@ and [email protected], and I've found something that pretty much convinces me that no matter what Steve's past mistakes have been, it wasn't his intention to scam people here.
On 10/21/2010 at 10:00am, Steve saved this email in his Drafts folder:
Notch,
Let me preface my email with saying congrats on all that's happening for you. It's good to see someone make it off thier hard work. I'm incredibly happy for you, and you've started a huge community. Good work.
Well, I've been pestered by soem friends, co-workers and customers to contact you. I shrug it off, and say "he's far too busy to be bothered by me". Nonetheless, one of my customers (raziaar) told me I would be common courtesy to check in with you if I'm making a dollar of your hard work. And I am.
I started hosting Minecraft servers a couple of months ago for friends, and people that were looking. I charge very little, but it's getting huge now. I'm receiving several dozen orders per day and I was able to quit my job and do this full-time.
I use a custom server wrapper to get some extra commands, but I use your default minecraft_server.jar as well as a modified version of the mysql database (just added some extra columns). We also verify names.
I could go on and on about it, and thank you profusely. Just know that I'm happy for you, and the madness you're experiencing right now will be worth it in the end. Hell, it's worth it now, you're bringing happiness to a lot of people.
If you have any concerns with what we're doing, just let us know. You're the boss.
Thanks,
Steve
With that in mind, I really find it very hard to believe that it was his intention to scam people. When you add Erin's willingness to give me (a complete stranger) access to the whole thing, I just don't see how it's possible.
Again, if you're still too stupid to insist you were scammed, I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise. I've had absolutely no access to the billing side of this thing, and my guess is that a lot of the billing is setup automatically and Erin has very little control over that side of the thing.
So here's the deal, I believe I can make everyone's world file available for download. I'm going to do it BY REQUEST only, and in the order of the requests I receive. I have no idea how long the account at their server space is going to be available, so if you want it I suggest you request it as soon as possible. The ONLY place I'm going to take requests is by a private message here on this forums. I don't want a bunch of irate messages in my email demanding my attention. I promise you, rude people will go to the end of the line.
I'm done for the night, but I'll hopefully be able to resume tomorrow night. Just be sure to PM me your request, so I have a record of everyone that's asked, and don't miss anyone.
Also, if I could get some feedback from people that have gotten their maps that it's working for them, it would reassure me that I'm not wasting my time.
ALSO, stop being dicks to each other. It's a waste of time. Remember the rule ...
I will step up here and say that I made some assumptions in previous posts and I shouldn't have. Steve's family needs to understand that the internet is a scary place and we have a right to be very suspicious about what has happened. We live in a world where anyone can make an account and pose as anyone they want to. We live in a world where con artists are everywhere...especially the internet.
I want to extend my apologies to the Hammerlys for anything I may have said out of anger. All I want is my money back. I will be watching my account for the next week or so and I will take action if nothing happens by that point. I know banks usually work on a 3-5 working day time frame. I've checked the various public records around the internet and I can indeed say that Steve is in jail right now.
I'll likely post more later. I have a watch to stand now.
If the story is true, i'm sorry Fitzy & Steve. I was cheering for you guys on the sidelines. I was using chetrooper.mynecraft.com and would love to be able to grab my map files.
Currently I'm about to rush out the door because I'm going to be late for work if I don't, but I woke up to receive an e-mail from Scotti that has my world file in it from the mynecraft website.
I don't have time to do anything with it, but some of my other guys will.
Thank you Scotti, and thank you Fitzy for delegating this to someone else who can do it.
But please Fitzy, stop coming into this thread for your own sake because there are emotions running high all around, for all sorts of different reasons regarding the ordeal. It's not really a place where one can be free from offense.
my condolences, but i'm glad you finally stepped forward to inform us. i consider myself a pretty reasonable person but i expect others to be as well. oft to my dismay.
Sorry I don't exactly buy, anything I've spent years playing eve online where scamming is encouraged, and when people have the finger pointed at them they do a few things.
Release pictures, and release logs.
Of course this could easily be transferred into real life to clean your slate. But, it also seems you are having a support problem? and I'm sure there is someone around the forums willing to throw you a bone and ftp into the server to start dishing out world files.
If you cant find anyone you trust I'm sure there are other minecraft hosting companies that if you told them your sob story might offer some free assistance.
I love how the TL;DR trolls start showing up when a thread gets to 3 pages...
Requests are still coming in, and I'm getting the world files available for download as quickly as I can. If there's something else you guys want access to (users.txt, whitelist.txt, etc) let me know and I'll try to accommodate. If you have familiarity with SSH you can have root access, but don't ask me for a tutorial. I only have so many hours in the day to dedicate to this endeavor.
I've had a couple people ask me about getting their money back. As I've said, I have nothing to do with the accounting side of Mynecraft. I've volunteered my time to help Erin regain some Karma points with the angry virtual mob. If you want your money back, bitching at her and whining in these forums isn't going to magically make that happen. Contact your bank or credit card company and dispute the charge. My bank immediately credited me back the initial charge (though I wasn't expecting that), and has blocked further charges from occurring. If you can't be bothered to do that, but still think coming here is going to help your case, you deserve to be charged for your ignorance.
Do you honestly think you're helping anything here? All I've done is offer my opinion on the situation, and my help to the people that are looking for their world files. Draw your own conclusions, offer your own opinion, but stop continuing the drama. Encouraging people to litigate over this is asinine and pointless... people are out $20-$50 and some time. I can't help with the first part, but I'm doing what I can on the second. All you're doing is trying to keep the conflict going; you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
I appreciate you sending the map file out to me Scotti.
Unfortunately though, large portions of our world are corrupted and we've been thinking maybe we're just going to have to start anew from fresh with another host somewhere and put all of this disaster behind us.
Even during the time Steve was around, and while he seemed to be great about his determination to keep Mynecraft going, nothing ever really seemed to live up to the promises in regards to performance, features, etc.
One of my last e-mails to Steve before all of this drama exploded was that I was just about ready to have to bail on Mynecraft and for him to send me my world.
The following is that last e-mail I sent to him.
I don't remember what my last e-mail subject was, or if it was sent out... my email program seems to have swallowed it.
Anyway, the original is contained within here... and I have a follow up.
I think I'm going to have to end up canceling my account. I just can't continue paying with my peoples money for this when they are telling me I need to stop and fall away.
Initially I was going to ask for a refund for the first month, since it has been a sorely un-enjoyable experience, but I'm going to swallow the charges myself and give all the donations given to me for the server by my guys. My choice to go with Mynecraft, my mistake. I would like to see how Mynecraft does in the future when the game goes live, but I honestly can't continue to pay such a sum for further months.
I also noticed on my bank account that I was charged again for a second month possibly... a 39.99 charge like the previous one, 5 days early. I don't know for a fact that it's for mynecraft yet, but I'll know that tomorrow for sure. I'm fine with you taking the first month, but a second month is quite unacceptable, especially since we're not at the mark yet, and you had mentioned before about no further charges to our account.
Seeing as I can no longer download the map or access anything related to the server, I would make a request that I be sent a copy of our world as well as any other pertinent information. I can grab the whitelist information and such from the website, but I can't snag the world information.
I'm really sorry Steve, but I cannot continue along with Mynecraft, at least hosting a server for my forum at http://www.halflife2.net/forums
I'm sorry you've been going through such a rough growth and haven't been able to keep everybody as happy as you'd have liked.
I appreciate you sending the map file out to me Scotti.
Unfortunately though, large portions of our world are corrupted and we've been thinking maybe we're just going to have to start anew from fresh with another host somewhere and put all of this disaster behind us.
Even during the time Steve was around, and while he seemed to be great about his determination to keep Mynecraft going, nothing ever really seemed to live up to the promises in regards to performance, features, etc.
One of my last e-mails to Steve before all of this drama exploded was that I was just about ready to have to bail on Mynecraft and for him to send me my world.
Sorry to hear that, but I was afraid that was the case. I've been giving people the world.zip files that was from 11/11, presumably during a server migration he was planning. If you know SSH at all, you can have the root password and poke around to see if there's anything salvageable. I haven't even messed with my old world file yet, been too busy getting everyone else theirs. I'm sure you could find someone with expertise at map handling and maybe help you salvage a few of the chunks? Let me know either way.
And yeah, for the record, I'm not defending Steve's performance. It's obvious he was in way over his head, and I believe he genuinely wanted this to succeed. He kept making impossible promises to people, and I suspect he wasn't entirely truthful in his representation of what people were buying, but I don't think this was a scam... there's much easier ways of making money.
Anyway, let me know if you want root access, not sure how much longer this account will be active, but there was a payment made earlier this month, so presumably at least until the first week of December.
I think you mean GTFO. I'm offering my opinion to these people just like you. Obviously you don't understand the concept of a contingency. Also if you might have missed it but this is not just this one incident. THIS GUY IS A KNOWN FRAUDSTER. Why do you think hes in jail? Why are you so opposed of litigating someone who is known for scamming others like yourself? If this was a one time thing I can see your point litigating would be a moot point, obviously thats not the case here.
No, I meant GTFA, as in go the **** away. You're not just offering your opinion, you're encouraging a course of action that is pointless. I'm opposed to wasting any more time on pointless endeavors, especially when, as I've pointed out already, I don't believe this was scam. Regardless of his history, there's much easier ways of making money.
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Also you think his wife had nothing to do with it? She handled all the transactions. Theres no way shes not going to notice that. This is a typical scam. Ive been around for awhile Mr. Scotti. It always happens like this someone comes and apologizes for everyone trys to get everyone to calm down; Maybe a little sob story like on page 2. In hopes clients will just cut their losses and move on.
You've "been around for awhile"? I guarantee you this isn't my first rodeo either, cowboy... thus the reason I'm choosing to handle it this way. All you're doing is making things worse, not better.
I'm sorry you've had problems with other hosting companies, but you don't have all the facts or the insight into this issue, just joining the lynch mob and making noise. Thus the reason I was calling you a . Think for yourself and stop following the herd.
Why would I not be on here to defend myself? It's 11:30 at night. There is nothing I can do right now to better my situation. Everyone needs to chill on the refunds. I already stated I processed the refunds. As with anything other credit card refund, it takes 7-10 days to clear. It take the same amount of time for the funds to come through to us.
The incorrect billings could of been any number of things. A wrong button, confusion through our merchant services. I put the refunds through, constantly mentioning it is not going to process them any faster.
And the extra support staff? I've stated before that Steve fails to fill me in on things most of the time. While doing SEO in 2008 he had an assistant for 4 months before I found out. I cannot answer for him about anything I am unaware of.
Its not fair of you to attack Erin and I'm sure Steve would have let everyone know had he not been carted away Friday night. I'm sorry but you are acting like she purposely ripped you people off really? For 9,15, or even 25 bucks? She is doing her best to get everyone refunded. ., when you are married and have children a lot of times the husband is the center of the family and when he gets ripped out it might take a little bit to figure out what to do like how are the kids gonna eat and have clean diapers? And you are right about tracking whoever to resolve the issue................not attacking someone and saying all kinds of mean things and making my sister cry because she has a lot on her plate right now................its called compassion for your fellow man something apparently not too many of you on this website have. She is doing the best she can right now so just relax and she will get whatever needs to be done done. But my niece and my nephew come first any day of the week I'm sorry if that inconvienences you in any way but that's the way it is.
Last night Erin (Fitzy) gave me the server account credentials and I've been spending what time I could trying to figure out how things were setup. It appears that there are about 191 or so different servers setup, and it's clear that they were in the middle of being transferred/upgraded when Steve was arrested. If you're not smart enough to verify that Steve Hammerly is currently sitting in jail in Connecticut with a $290,000 bond right now, I'm not going to spend any time trying to convince you that it's true.
I started this because I really wanted to be able to download my World file, and at the same time help some of the other people that feel they've been "scammed" to recoup some of their lost time by making it possible for them to download their own World files.
But in the process, I've been able to access the email accounts for steve@ and [email protected], and I've found something that pretty much convinces me that no matter what Steve's past mistakes have been, it wasn't his intention to scam people here.
On 10/21/2010 at 10:00am, Steve saved this email in his Drafts folder:
With that in mind, I really find it very hard to believe that it was his intention to scam people. When you add Erin's willingness to give me (a complete stranger) access to the whole thing, I just don't see how it's possible.
Again, if you're still too stupid to insist you were scammed, I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise. I've had absolutely no access to the billing side of this thing, and my guess is that a lot of the billing is setup automatically and Erin has very little control over that side of the thing.
So here's the deal, I believe I can make everyone's world file available for download. I'm going to do it BY REQUEST only, and in the order of the requests I receive. I have no idea how long the account at their server space is going to be available, so if you want it I suggest you request it as soon as possible. The ONLY place I'm going to take requests is by a private message here on this forums. I don't want a bunch of irate messages in my email demanding my attention. I promise you, rude people will go to the end of the line.
There you have it people. Ready? Go.
Thank you.
Also, if I could get some feedback from people that have gotten their maps that it's working for them, it would reassure me that I'm not wasting my time.
ALSO, stop being dicks to each other. It's a waste of time. Remember the rule ...
I want to extend my apologies to the Hammerlys for anything I may have said out of anger. All I want is my money back. I will be watching my account for the next week or so and I will take action if nothing happens by that point. I know banks usually work on a 3-5 working day time frame. I've checked the various public records around the internet and I can indeed say that Steve is in jail right now.
I'll likely post more later. I have a watch to stand now.
Fitzy and Steve, if your story is 100% accurate, then you have my complete heartfelt apology. I am sorry.
I don't have time to do anything with it, but some of my other guys will.
Thank you Scotti, and thank you Fitzy for delegating this to someone else who can do it.
But please Fitzy, stop coming into this thread for your own sake because there are emotions running high all around, for all sorts of different reasons regarding the ordeal. It's not really a place where one can be free from offense.
Release pictures, and release logs.
Of course this could easily be transferred into real life to clean your slate. But, it also seems you are having a support problem? and I'm sure there is someone around the forums willing to throw you a bone and ftp into the server to start dishing out world files.
If you cant find anyone you trust I'm sure there are other minecraft hosting companies that if you told them your sob story might offer some free assistance.
Requests are still coming in, and I'm getting the world files available for download as quickly as I can. If there's something else you guys want access to (users.txt, whitelist.txt, etc) let me know and I'll try to accommodate. If you have familiarity with SSH you can have root access, but don't ask me for a tutorial. I only have so many hours in the day to dedicate to this endeavor.
I've had a couple people ask me about getting their money back. As I've said, I have nothing to do with the accounting side of Mynecraft. I've volunteered my time to help Erin regain some Karma points with the angry virtual mob. If you want your money back, bitching at her and whining in these forums isn't going to magically make that happen. Contact your bank or credit card company and dispute the charge. My bank immediately credited me back the initial charge (though I wasn't expecting that), and has blocked further charges from occurring. If you can't be bothered to do that, but still think coming here is going to help your case, you deserve to be charged for your ignorance.
I'm just saying.
STFU and GTFA.
Unfortunately though, large portions of our world are corrupted and we've been thinking maybe we're just going to have to start anew from fresh with another host somewhere and put all of this disaster behind us.
Even during the time Steve was around, and while he seemed to be great about his determination to keep Mynecraft going, nothing ever really seemed to live up to the promises in regards to performance, features, etc.
One of my last e-mails to Steve before all of this drama exploded was that I was just about ready to have to bail on Mynecraft and for him to send me my world.
The following is that last e-mail I sent to him.
I don't remember what my last e-mail subject was, or if it was sent out... my email program seems to have swallowed it.
Anyway, the original is contained within here... and I have a follow up.
I think I'm going to have to end up canceling my account. I just can't continue paying with my peoples money for this when they are telling me I need to stop and fall away.
Initially I was going to ask for a refund for the first month, since it has been a sorely un-enjoyable experience, but I'm going to swallow the charges myself and give all the donations given to me for the server by my guys. My choice to go with Mynecraft, my mistake. I would like to see how Mynecraft does in the future when the game goes live, but I honestly can't continue to pay such a sum for further months.
I also noticed on my bank account that I was charged again for a second month possibly... a 39.99 charge like the previous one, 5 days early. I don't know for a fact that it's for mynecraft yet, but I'll know that tomorrow for sure. I'm fine with you taking the first month, but a second month is quite unacceptable, especially since we're not at the mark yet, and you had mentioned before about no further charges to our account.
Seeing as I can no longer download the map or access anything related to the server, I would make a request that I be sent a copy of our world as well as any other pertinent information. I can grab the whitelist information and such from the website, but I can't snag the world information.
I'm really sorry Steve, but I cannot continue along with Mynecraft, at least hosting a server for my forum at http://www.halflife2.net/forums
I'm sorry you've been going through such a rough growth and haven't been able to keep everybody as happy as you'd have liked.
Please respond ASAP.
Thanks,
Account: Raziaar
So really it was the end for me either way.
Sorry to hear that, but I was afraid that was the case. I've been giving people the world.zip files that was from 11/11, presumably during a server migration he was planning. If you know SSH at all, you can have the root password and poke around to see if there's anything salvageable. I haven't even messed with my old world file yet, been too busy getting everyone else theirs. I'm sure you could find someone with expertise at map handling and maybe help you salvage a few of the chunks? Let me know either way.
And yeah, for the record, I'm not defending Steve's performance. It's obvious he was in way over his head, and I believe he genuinely wanted this to succeed. He kept making impossible promises to people, and I suspect he wasn't entirely truthful in his representation of what people were buying, but I don't think this was a scam... there's much easier ways of making money.
Anyway, let me know if you want root access, not sure how much longer this account will be active, but there was a payment made earlier this month, so presumably at least until the first week of December.
No, I meant GTFA, as in go the **** away. You're not just offering your opinion, you're encouraging a course of action that is pointless. I'm opposed to wasting any more time on pointless endeavors, especially when, as I've pointed out already, I don't believe this was scam. Regardless of his history, there's much easier ways of making money.
You've "been around for awhile"? I guarantee you this isn't my first rodeo either, cowboy... thus the reason I'm choosing to handle it this way. All you're doing is making things worse, not better.
I'm sorry you've had problems with other hosting companies, but you don't have all the facts or the insight into this issue, just joining the lynch mob and making noise. Thus the reason I was calling you a . Think for yourself and stop following the herd.