I find it very telling that the Developers have not responded to this thread in the 7 days it's been up and active.

Please rethink your definition of AWESOME, some of you. Sprinkled aspects of RPG action with town building aspects does NOT make AWESOME.

For most of you, it's a chat room. Find another game to hang out in, to give hundreds of dollars of your hard-earned money, and actually experience some deep lore, fantastic writing, balanced gameplay.

Regardless of what game you choose, as long as you're with people you like, it's going to be fun.

Those that stay til the bitter end (tho why you're staying when it turns bitter is beyond me), will just be chatting and not gaming. You can do that anywhere, for free.

You can find them actively answering questions on the Crusaders of the Lost Idols Forum. If you haven't tried it it's a pointless click game. They have totally abandon their loyal fans. Maybe a social media frenzy via Twitter or Facebook page is approriate?

Lorant,

Thanks for poking said bear. It would be nice to get a hug.... we've certainly put our share of time and emotional investment (not to mention the monetary investments of many) into this game. At least a thanks for the offers to help would be nice.

All, and especially the devs,

The idle game in question, above, is basically BW graphics in a no-brainer, no-effort user game interface. It probably was hugely easy development, compared to SOT, or even to BW itself. I'm sure it brings in the easy money. But not mine. I looked it long enough to yawn hugely, and deleted it within a week (when I had time to go back to the app edit location and delete it). I didn't even go back to see what I had accomplished in all that idle time. Like I cared.

For me, a game is at least as much about the social interactions I have with my fellow players as it is about what the game is. I grew up playing board and card games. Chess, checkers, rummy, war, Monopoly, Risk, Clue, Acquire, Pit, Uno, Phase 10, Ticket to Ride -- it didn't really matter so much which game my friends and family and I played together, but that we were playing a game *together* -- and the conversations we had built the relationships I hold dear today. That's why I stuck around SOT--because of all of YOU. I got bored with the game the first week of alpha. I'd finished the content. Grinding to get stronger? Why? Had I not met people I enjoyed spending time with, I would never have made it to this point. While I know many people who are just about the game, that's not me, and I suspect that isn't the people who are still here after so many frustrations with lack of updates and lagged and dc'd connections. Why put up with a game like that when there are better ones out there? It HAS to be the relationships.

So, devs, what will you offer us? A place for the community to continue? A dying game isn't much incentive for a continued community. It would be like playing Monopoly long past the point of one player owning all the property by just giving all the other players loans. After all, we must like playing games at least a little or we would never have started this one. When we've all reached max level, we can sit around and stare at each other? How many times will we run T6 *everything* before it becomes pointless? Couldn't you even consider a delayed update schedule (Once a year is better than nothing. Repeating already written events is better than nothing--particularly for players who started after they were originally run)?

Or, must we find a place to move our community to? I've been in other online environments where a place closed and the community had to move on. That's a hard thing to ask of people who have been your staunch supporters from virtually day one. But, those relationships PERSISTED. I have friends who I have never met f2f but I know their lives, and they know mine, because of that relationship thing. This has never been "just a game" -- it has been a place where we developed friendships in a game environment. I hope those friendships will persist beyond whatever happens to SOT, even if I have to go find another game (or other environment) in which I can continue to interact with my community. Because all of you have become "my" community. My friends. So, to you, I say thank you, and I will offer a hug, even if the devs don't.

Regards,
El Marie (and Melisande and EllIounn and Ingvald Sdottir and Idunnr and Allyson and Pellias and Ryley and Die Blysku)

Kudos to El and her above post... It just seems for all the support that's been given to CNE, you'd think there'd be a little more appreciation in return. There are many who have spent a lot of money on this game, but that just doesn't seem to matter... It's like when Bill Gates said "DOS is dead", poof... it was.

-Dudemanly

Ya know, this would have gone a whole lot better if they'd have said...

Hey all, great run! We've gone to the end of the development cycle for SoT! Our storyline culminates with the January update. Thank you so much for being a part of our story and helping make SoT the amazing game that it is!

But I think "we aren't making enough money, so too bad so sad" is better :)

Feeling ignored "starts" to get annoying...

I am no dev but with a little introduction I would be well able to take over some 1st level support :D And I'm pretty sure there would be enough ppl in the game for some 2nd level too. With the dedication I saw at some players ... just give the game to us :)