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  1. 1. Patch gets delayed for a day. 2. Most of the staff quit. I have a bad feeling about what could be in that patch...
  2. I don't think that knowing why Wurm just shed most of its experienced upper staff in just a day would actually make me want to log in again. Probably the exact opposite. Because I'm guessing it's something really, really bad...
  3. I stopped playing in around 2015. I came back in April 2022 for about a year - it was a fun year of nostalgia running around Wurm's dated game world. The thing that makes it so special is that Wurm has an incredible community and history. Especially on an old server like Independence, it's clear from everywhere you go that countless players have poured so, so many hours into this game that we called our online home - some of us for well over a decade. Losing staff like Enki, Keenan, Darklords, Pandalet, and so many others who have poured years of effort into keeping the game afloat and the community happy & healthy is just such a horrifically bad sign. I've never, ever seen anything remotely this cataclysmic in the entire history of Wurm. If this doesn't kill it... then I don't know what will. (Or maybe not even kill it: just herald the start of a slow death.) One thing is for sure. I cannot, in good conscience, ever put a single euro into this game ever again, because that money would go to an organisation that is, as far as I can tell, going to kill Wurm one way or another.
  4. Hard disagree, there's a lot of value to calming nerves even with a quick post. Rule number 1 of good PR is to solve crises and allay concerns quickly and effectively. To give an example: say your internet is down. I'd much rather my ISP tells me ASAP that they're aware of the problem and working on a solution - even if they don't know what that solution will be, or how long it might take - vs. radio silence where you don't even know if they know (or care). The same principle applies to any business trying to alleviate the concerns of their customers. Right now we don't know if we're going to be ignored or listened to. It would be nice to at least know we're going to be listened to.
  5. yes lol please don't make this an nfi vs sfi topic, we have more important things to worry about (wurmonline dot com)
  6. The math in this post is off by a factor of 10, 1 SEK = 0.085 euro. So it's 850,000€ total or 25k € / month, which isn't so bad. However, I suspect most of that money came from the Steam release, so it has probably been a lot less profitable for the last few years. It's quite tragic, because Wurm makes enough money to sustain the servers and a small dev team (which is what we got in the Rolf days.) But it does not (and will probably never) make enough money to get the new owners (GCG) out of the debt they're in...
  7. I'm the same. I was planning on spending €300 on silver to buy the remaining scale I need to make a set to celebrate 12 years of playing Wurm. Now, I don't think I'll even renew the premium on my accounts unless I see clear evidence that Wurm is not about to crash and burn. *Everything* I have seen here convinces me that Wurm is in big, big trouble. There's the horrendous new website; the sudden departure of two highly experienced team members (Keenan and Enki); the focus on profits and 'corporate speak'; and the terrible financials that Game Chest Group has behind the scenes based on their publically available financial reports (i.e. lots of debt and never making a profit.) I have no idea what @Krister is doing, but I know it isn't what's right for this game and its target audience.
  8. +1, this would be really nice to have!
  9. Thanks for making this video, it's important to document this stuff. Personally, I'm really nervous about tomorrow. It's never a good sign when a new overhaul like this is kept so in the dark - we don't know what they're adding tomorrow, and it might be the beginning of a new era of GCG trying to extract cash from the game by any means necessary. It wouldn't be fun if that ends up being the case. =(
  10. It seems to be working fine now? So I don't think a replacement would be necessary. https://wurmfeed.rotabland.eu/signaturefreedom
  11. The capital letters at the start of each sentence in the article (upto the question mark) read "IS THIS AN APRIL FOOLS?" which seems like an ominous question to ask... I can't find any other hidden messages in the rest of the text, but it could be that they're a code, or are the coordinates of something.
  12. Based on some forum searching, it might be related to the 2018 Wurm anniversairy event, for which sigils were a part of one of the clues/steps: Where did you find it?
  13. Random question, what is everyone using to make the cool gifs? a) I want to know for my own benefit, and b) I will put a tutorial in the OP
  14. -1. Adding new servers to increase playercounts is a cheap trick band-aid that works for a few months and then dies off again. There are many ideas on this forum that would help to improve playercounts. For the new server vibe, I'd rather see something like jackal/challenge servers (or a variation on them) done again, meaning that you get to experience a new server and a fresh start for a while, but can always hop back through a portal to a (still populated) main cluster.