Ragnar_Dreadbane

Look I don't want to keep arguing this. Yes companies come and go but what I mean is the firm wouldn't set up the system in such a way that had no redundancy, precisely because we can't control what third parties do. Especially when the end user relies on the data being persistent. Ie Rolf should have added some redundancy for this. That all being said, I'm getting over it. New adventures awaits.

We actually did talk as a village that if this happened we'd contact the host and ask for the server data. But we just didn't expect it so soon! One week!

No no, you misunderstand. I don't think my firm would pass ethics on Rolf doing that. I'm not blaming the hosters. I don't really want to blame Rolf either, he is just one man after all. And I understand why he'd want to abdicate responsibility for such a large amount of data storage, but it just sucks to be on the receiving end.Looks like I'm going to be starting on Wyvern

You see I only agree to a point. As a software engineer by trade I wouldn't provide a service that featured persistent data as a requirement to be so unprotected, without any safeguards. I don't think my firm would pass ethics on that without humongous warnings about temperamental data.

So when I started playing this game my greatest concern was that since Rolf doesn't host the server any more your characters very existence is in the hands of someone who has no monitory incentive to keep the server running. So what does make people host? A love of the game surely? But what happens when that honeymoon period runs out? Well, then they stop hosting, and your character ceases to exist. Aaaand that just happened. Let me preface this by saying I absolutely love this game, it's seriously awesome! But BlueFangSolution's London server just decided that after a week to call it quits. 68 Hours of game time totally wasted. Gone. Not only that but I have no way of contacting the guys in my village, who I would like to keep in touch with. It's all really sad, but this situation was foretold by numerous skeptics. And yes I know they'll be numerous people commenting that I should have just joined Wyvern to begin with (as if that's my fault), but at the time I didn't know that server existed, and when you've made friends and invested time into your village you don't fancy starting over. Lakeside Homestead is- was my home. I kind of feel this is a fundamental problem of this game's model. I paid £20 for it, and I have no character security at all. In fact 68 hours of my life has completely been deleted. Thanks a bunch. Nothing to show for it. If any of the BlueFang guys read this, PM me, I'd love to keep going with you guys.