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Dave,

I think it goes without saying at this point—everyone has already shared their thoughts on the current state of the game: the players you've refused to unban, the slow pace of improvements, and the steady decline in activity. However, I'd like to comment on one particular aspect.

A true leader knows when to acknowledge a mistake. And if you're looking for examples, some of the most respected CEOs—like those of Microsoft or Apple—have publicly admitted when they've made the wrong call. That's not weakness, that's humility. I say this with the utmost respect: I hope you take a moment to genuinely reflect.

Even users often labeled as toxic or disruptive—like Kaska—have recognized that the mass banning of players has gone too far. And honestly, if someone like me, who used to be known for toxic behavior in duels and clan wars, can admit it was time to grow up and stop playing the victim, I believe change is possible. I had to take a "forced vacation" myself, and I now recognize how counterproductive that attitude was.

As Kaska suggested, why not simply unban those users but mute them from everything except private messages? What real harm could they do? If you give them a second chance, many of them might return—and with them, activity could increase again. We could even experiment with fresh concepts: maybe an "ancient season," or a rotation of never-before-seen maps. As we all know, atWar has near-infinite creative potential.

And if time or resources are the problem, subcontracting is always an option. Outsourcing some work to experienced developers—say, from Mexico or India—could go a long way. Believe me, as a business and process consultant, I say this from experience.

As many have said, an event where you make Waffel super admin or I don't know, something innovative while simply AIing the game or fixing bugs in the maps. And on the topic of Lion nuking the discord, please Dave, it's not like it was the end of the world. I bet Croat or someone else who had the power to do that over a little tantrum could have done it.

It's time to move into the future, even games that were abandonware are reviving thanks to the community, you need a real community manager for the game and maybe, dedicate yourself to the technical, marketing and business issues of the game and believe me many people in the community would be happy to help as it was in that era when Alois and not a certain bug abuser was the head supporter.

I know I'm repeating things others have already pointed out, but I still felt it was worth adding my two cents to the conversation.

Too much words not reading

I want to see you react to this post 3 years later and see if the "plan" was what you thought it would be

Written by Kaska, 07.04.2025 at 20:11

(Also waffel, Fuck you)

Well at least on this we agree. It's a beginning

Written by Tiger29, 07.04.2025 at 19:44

This forum has been one of the best things that had happened in atwar recently. It actually has sparked activity in the game and revealed there is hope for this game. After reading all the post made I have come to a simple decision. There are a lot of players still willing to play but they are banned or mad at Dave. The Lion situation is one that constantly haunts this game, it is over a joke, Lion being young and stupid deleted a dead discord server. Maybe it's time Dave to consider unbanning him. He could be a asset to this game the few weeks he played there were CWs 2v2 old players having fun competing it was a blast for a new player hungry to learn. Then 1 day I logged on his alt was banned. Consequently 2v2s and 3v3s died and CWs stopped happening. Dave you said that Lion destroyed important discord stuff, but you are wrong discord has nothing to offer it's experienced players give nuggets and nurturing younger players so when they leave there is a new generation to carry the game. I have become a lot better player from the short time I new Lion he encouraged me and helped me become better and also created games. Also I can say the same for Temp and Khauman. You can do all you want to this game and spend all the money you want on advertising, but it will be futile because there is nothing to keep players hooked. I'm adding this in not as a jest, but as a insight there is a old prestige forum that is more active then this game with player talking having fun and reminiscing the old times. It is also more active then the Atwar official discord that hasn't had a active conversation in 2 years so Lion Sins delete wasn't even major. So please consider letting him come back as a player not as a MOD, and see how the game flourish. Trust me if you started lifting banneds on main accounts CWs and the game would get so much more active. Also your advertising money would go to use because you would actually be able to get players to stay. I also want to thank everyone who helped me from Tungston, Lion, Temp, Khauman, Waffel, CaptainWF, and Palm you made the game fun and it's the only reason I play .

I appreciate your feedback and I do hear you, even if I don't 100% agree with you. Thank you for being kind and respectful.

Written by Dave, 07.04.2025 at 20:37

Written by YourSphinx, 07.04.2025 at 19:40

I do have a few ideas on how to give this game a bit of juice, maybe I'll communicate through our favorite German mod.

If you heil him he can give you my personal discord.

He gets mad when I do that

This glitch still exists it says I have lost 3 CW but I have only lost 2 because I was on Wu-Tang and beat D legion now I'm on legion it says its a loss.

Written by YourSphinx, 07.04.2025 at 19:40

I do have a few ideas on how to give this game a bit of juice, maybe I'll communicate through our favorite German mod.

If you heil him he can give you my personal discord.

Written by Waffelo, 07.04.2025 at 19:12

Oh wow, I can't believe that I'm actually reading this Dave

So out of ALL of what I've wrote, this is what you're going to be nitpicking about? Two minor details of a very big picture that has been portrayed before you by not just me.......

Yes because you type too much. I don't have time to read all that. Especially when you start off with a bunch of false crap.

Dave i really dont understand why you refuse to unban. Just permamute them on all but pr if you really dont want their opinions

Sorry but i really dont see any viable reason to sée thé game die

(Also waffel, Fuck you)

This forum has been one of the best things that had happened in atwar recently. It actually has sparked activity in the game and revealed there is hope for this game. After reading all the post made I have come to a simple decision. There are a lot of players still willing to play but they are banned or mad at Dave. The Lion situation is one that constantly haunts this game, it is over a joke, Lion being young and stupid deleted a dead discord server. Maybe it's time Dave to consider unbanning him. He could be a asset to this game the few weeks he played there were CWs 2v2 old players having fun competing it was a blast for a new player hungry to learn. Then 1 day I logged on his alt was banned. Consequently 2v2s and 3v3s died and CWs stopped happening. Dave you said that Lion destroyed important discord stuff, but you are wrong discord has nothing to offer it's experienced players give nuggets and nurturing younger players so when they leave there is a new generation to carry the game. I have become a lot better player from the short time I knew Lion he encouraged me and helped me become better and also created games. Also I can say the same for Temp and Khauman. You can do all you want to this game and spend all the money you want on advertising, but it will be futile because there is nothing to keep players hooked. I'm adding this in not as a jest, but as a insight there is a old prestige forum that is more active then this game with player talking having fun and reminiscing the old times. It is also more active then the Atwar official discord that hasn't had a active conversation in 2 years so Lion Sins delete wasn't even major. So please consider letting him come back as a player not as a MOD, and see how the game flourish. Trust me if you started lifting banneds on main accounts CWs and the game would get so much more active. Also your advertising money would go to use because you would actually be able to get players to stay. I also want to thank everyone who helped me from Tungston, Lion, Temp, Khauman, Waffel, CaptainWF, and Palm you made the game fun and it's the only reason I play .

Written by Dave, 07.04.2025 at 05:46

I've met Sid in person and I believe he is a pretty normal, rational guy. I really don't understand the hatred against him. But I digress.

Again I do appreciate the message. I'm still here and happy to talk with you any time.

Dave, my message wasn't so much trolling, just melodramatic drivel. I've met Sid multiple times in person, I dearly miss 2017-2020 Sid, he was one of my closest friends, truly a great, funny, rational guy. Someone younger me could look to for wisdom. Unfortunately he became a mind-shattered, hysterical, leftist freak in like 2021 (I suspect too much Reddit) and is now incapable of emotional regulation. He cut off essentially everyone close to him in our online sphere including me. This timeframe parallels his volatile moves in banning individuals, but I digress.

I don't have any strong opinions on what should happen next. I'd loosely argue a pardon on all non category 1 threats, including Lao, just ignore him. Certain players deserve the ban hammer rightly so but I'd like to see some old faces around here once again.

Once again it's your game, do what you please. It must be entertaining seeing mini uprisings on your own product, the irony doesn't escape me.

I do have a few ideas on how to give this game a bit of juice, maybe I'll communicate through our favorite German mod.

I really dont understand what harm can do unbanning players without making them moderators supporters or whatever. They cant make the enviroment worse then it is now, it's almost impossible to get decent games starting, and the few people that are around still act toxic or trolls or anything (appear to be the nature of this kind of games). Once again i never took any part in any side, but all this looks like children planting their foot for some toy that got broken years before (both sides). Just slowly come back to play games if you like to, and just unbann people if they only wants to play the game until they prove they didnt learn and bann them again.

Don't be a stupid and weak panican. Trust the plan.

Written by Palmitas, 07.04.2025 at 16:06

He apologized and it was one moment that resulted in nothing as it was all saved in a backup.

There was no backup of Discord. He permanently deleted it. All those years of content are gone forever. That's not "nothing".

No one should ever forget just how close we came to disaster. The Biden years were some of the worst in our country's history. Our dementia-addled former President handed the government over to radical activists who opened the border, turned every important institution into a petri dish for disastrous social engineering, and left the country humiliated on the world stage.

This decline, accompanied by visible and pronounced decline in Americans' quality of life, was not marked by widespread civil unrest. None of the violent pushback so confidently predicted by accelerationists and regionalists and all the other worthless -ists who came and went over the last 4 years ever materialized. Rather, until Trump's miraculous political comeback, the Right was confused and passive. Democrats dumped tens of millions of illegals into the country, looted the treasury, and generally ran the board without any substantive institutional opposition.

The American Right was incredibly fortunate. Democrats very visibly broke the country AND put forward two of the weakest and most abrasive national candidates of all time, sloppy drunk Kamala Harris and spiteful eunuch Tim Walz. Donald Trump, already a world-historical figure, assembled a team of loyalists with far greater discipline and professionalism than you saw in either 2016 or 2020. Many of Trump's former enemies showed remarkable grace and endorsed him rather than see the country (and the world) decline to nothing. Then, after all this happened, Donald Trump's life was saved by a public act of God that would be seen by billions of people, with an assassin's bullet missing his brain by less than a quarter of an inch.

Written by 77TENGRI99, 07.04.2025 at 16:08

Servers down many times in the last few weeks or they very slow laggy

Well it was exactly like I predicted.....

Written by Dave, 07.04.2025 at 06:23

I hate to even mention his name, because now it'll only be a few hours until he crawls out of wherever he is and replies from some new alt.....

Like not even an hour after that he showed up and wrote a bunch of posts. I deleted and banned. Immediately after that server started getting ddos'd.

His behavior hasn't changed for 5+ years and counting. So predictable.

Servers down many times in the last few weeks or they very slow laggy

Dave, there is no point in deleting messages. They can still be seen.

I still don't get why dont you unban players ffs. Lion deserves a pardon, I agree with my compatriot. He apologized and it was one moment that resulted in nothing as it was all saved in a backup. Let's not fuck around and unban players ffs. the faster the better. If you don't unban players, at this point it shows that you care more about your ego than the game. Besides bugs and lion, what was the main reason players like Jugers or Trystane got the banhammer? 3 and a half years on, that is over 1200 days, there is no point in keeping the bans. Please consider it. The game is worse than it was 1 year ago, and has been that way forever. In some sense im surprised we can still get games with 8 people.

Besides, I don't like to blame Sid for whatever happend. Yes, he did make mistakes but he is one of the reasons I'm still into atwar to this day. He has always been a nice person to me and taught me a lot of stuff - I know he is a good person.

Written by Dave, 07.04.2025 at 05:08

Written by Nero, 02.04.2025 at 18:54

Hi I am Nero

I don't exactly agree with your assessment, but I do appreciate your feedback. If we were to talk perhaps you would see things differently from my perspective -- or perhaps we would never agree 100%. But either way my metaphorical door is open to you, any time. (I think you know my personal Discord but if not Sascha can give it to you.)

Hope you are doing well.

Great, don't agree with any assessment that goes against what you wish were true. You haven't heard a single person out, you just go back to justifying killing the game while continuing to delete posts. This game is a safe space Dave, YOUR safe space.

What more can be said? It's literally been the same discussion for years. If you still don't see that what happened was in some way wrong, you never will.

But, this is your house and you make the rules. Enjoy your empty, lonely home.

Hope you are well as well.

Written by Dave, 07.04.2025 at 06:23

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I've made my share of mistakes. I made Lion a supporter, for example, and gave him access to the official atWar Discord. He repaid my trust in him by nuking said Discord. Obviously that was a bad staff pick on my part. (And this is the guy people want unbanned? Never going to happen.... but I digress.)

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People agree that a pardon should be necessary. I don't see the danger of certain players being there if they're not part of your staff. So, what are they going to do? PLAY THE GAME? HAVE FUN LIKE BEFORE? VALUE THE TIME THEY HAVE? w.e.

Written by Metyu, 04.04.2025 at 05:54

Written by Dave, 01.04.2025 at 23:14

Written by b2spirit, 17.03.2025 at 00:15

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Nice necropost

Necropost? It was never fixed.

He's using a post from 4 years ago to bitch about something that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this post.

Guess it's time to lock the thread.

Written by KYBL, 06.04.2025 at 21:34

Joined in 2011, this game was high school for me. Stopped playing in 2016, came back during the pandemic but by that point the game was largely dead. Still come back to fuck around with the maps while listening to podcasts or something.

And agreed with Nero on the safe space stuff. A war-based strategy game is always going to attract the type of people who are interested in geopolitics, and therefore geopolitical banter. It's what made the community what it was.

I definitely don't think atWar is a "safe space", and I wouldn't want it to be!

Written by Kaska, 06.04.2025 at 12:29

First of all waffel, you dont know shit about the reasons i resigned. You dont know shit about the way I was as a mod, what m'y opinions are or what I was saying in mod forum

I dont want to argue with you, but your perception of m'y rôle in atwar décline IS Silly

Me having a Big mouth might be a problem but i had nothing to do with most of the décisions that provoked this décline. Ask Nero if you dont trust me. I Never permabanned anyone (except one Guy who was IP fishing).

That being said, it was a mistake to ban all these players due to spam and forum posts, perman ban waffel or chill guys liké Lion was wrong, even Lao who i Never liked, Never deserved that treatment, to Say thé least.

It's another mistake to keep the bans now, general pardon IS needed

Dave it's Time to show that you have a big heart and let this nerds enjoy a truly Amazing game and sherish their souvenirs.

Kaska you're my favorite Frenchman on atWar, but I still can't agree with you.

To be honest I don't even remember banning Waffel, but I guess I must have. As you can see I haven't banned his alt or even deleted his messages, even though they are dumb. I'm tolerating his presence.

What Lion did was unforgivable. Not only did he break my trust, he's made no compensation for the damage he caused. He did apologize which I appreciated, but that didn't undo the damage. So I really can't believe how you support him.

As for the rest, there are really very few people who we bother to keep out of here. I know several who were either banned back in 2021, or deleted their own accounts, who have come back on alts. As long as they don't bother anybody I look the other way and let them play. Not everybody, but several.

Written by Ghostface, 04.04.2025 at 11:39

I think dave surrounded himself with the wrong people and whats worse he trusted them and gave them power, which is normal actually the most power hungry people are the ones to make it and then use that power how they want
like Stalin in the Ussr he didnt rule it for so long by being a great statesman for sure , and reading by the comments here on sid u can draw a pretty good parallel, ban dissenters and surround urself with puppets and yes-men.
These are ppl that dont really care about the good of the game but their own ego , if everyone was against them they would permaban everyone destroy the community and leave themselves too just in spite. (which kinda happened already)
If dave thinks hes flawless and hasnt made a single wrong decision in picking staff , bans or whatever then hes an egoist too and theres simply no point to argue about that.
Marking people as toxic and permabanning is also illogical cus who decides who is toxic or not its not a logical measurement , and id bet if u made an anyonymous poll about dave , sid croat or whoever majority would mark them as toxic too.
Many years ago i remember reading the forum drama of croat vs CE, which was some of the funniest banter ive ever read but if that happened today the posts and threads would be deleted, croat would be called toxic,racist and permabaned maybe and CE too as well which puts todays situation in perspective , its probably why nowadays theres not much discussion going on in forums anyway since they have been "sterilized" of toxicity.
Banning or permaban ppl for cheating is k , but permabaning bugs for cheating while slapping pavle on the wrist for the same thing and letting him keep supporter status , id rather u just come and take a crap on my head
than doing this kangaroo court stuff.

I am definitely not flawless.

I've made my share of mistakes. I made Lion a supporter, for example, and gave him access to the official atWar Discord. He repaid my trust in him by nuking said Discord. Obviously that was a bad staff pick on my part. (And this is the guy people want unbanned? Never going to happen.... but I digress.)

On the other hand do I think it was a mistake to ban people who came at me personally? No. Don't come into my house and insult me and then be surprised when I throw you out. (This is how I look at atWar. It's not a democracy!)

You're right in one way though -- it's practically impossible to have a logical measurement of who is "toxic" or not. I don't have any problem with the "toxic banter", I even enjoy it too sometimes. There is a line somewhere that gets crossed and it's hard to say exactly where it is, except usually you just know it because people go waaaaay past it. I think its fair to say this was one of the things we struggled with the most in the moderation team -- figuring out where to draw the line in many different situations.

A lot of moderation decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, and there are very often facts that influence our decisions that we don't discuss publicly. Bugs for example was banned for a lot more than just cheating, and I'm not going to go into it even now. (And I hate to even mention his name, because now it'll only be a few hours until he crawls out of wherever he is and replies from some new alt.....) I'm not condoning Pavle but he was punished appropriately and I believe he's learned his lesson. Those 2 situations are not even close to the same thing.

Written by YourSphinx, 04.04.2025 at 00:44

Sphinx.

[Dave]:
Not here to placate waffels 300th goodbye post or stir up past grievances. First, Dave I owe you a small apology for 2022. I never had any grievances with you and still don't to this day. I'm grateful you bought this place and kept the lights on, even if it didn't make financial sense from an IRR perspective. I've long known you've had deranged, resentful communist types in your ear whispering about their grandiose game plans in which you MUST purge players, that just so happen to align with their petty, decade long inferiority complexes. I've never held that against you. More on that later. I've never blame you once for anything that happened here and you have my gratitude. I know I'll take some shit from ole lao for saying this, but who cares, I've always been my own player.

[Nostalgia fagging, can skip]:
Of all of the years I played this game, I'd say 2017-2018 was my favorite, with the covid season being a close second. 2017-18 era was peak competition, aristrocrats, mk, illyria, peaky blinders, amigos and more. I remember I was invited to aristo by Klevis, as probably the only developed rank 7 at the time. Days later, Klevis never logged in again, so I was in search for a new clan. I remember looking at Illyria, one of the three great clans and wanting in. I was hungry for knowledge and Laochra, who I consider the most complete player ever, was who I wanted to learn from. I joined. It was dead. A dusty hall of old legends who hadn't really competed in years. Lao was occasionally dueling but there was no one to clanwar with. I invited 4nic my best friend and 2v2 partner. We began dominating and slowly the clan began to stir back to life. Lao integrated us well, acq became active again, dbacks too, khal for a season or two before he ran off to get married. Chill ran a tight ship, nero was our cheerleader and syrian depressingly wandered the halls, I was in love. I got my friends boywind and witch-doctor to join. We dominated the clan war scene for a year straight with decisive season wins. We had such a stacked squad that our second string could've probably won seasons alone. Everyone hated us, except for us. We had a monopoly on talent, with the personalities to go with it We were a tightly knit clique that other clans tried to emulate, but could never. Total Illyrian Nationalism. This lead to a resentful out group, more on this later.

Covid was a fun season where everyone came back and we had the most active, most competitive season to date. The gameplay was sketchier and more unconventional, but at the end of the day, it was an amazing way to spend the pandemic and have one last dance with familiar friends and foes. And I am grateful.

[The elephant in the room]:
When Dave bought this game there was a power vacuum and extreme information asymmetry from a player to owner standpoint. Asymmetric information occurs when one party has more superior information than another. In this case Dave, who hadn't wasted years of his life on this wonderful game like us, was at a disadvantage. He was brutally taken advantage of by Sid, to no fault of his own. When buying the game, Dave was not aware of the extremely nuanced player caste system, who to listen to, who to avoid, who to trust. it would've been impossible. He was taken advantage of by a resentful player who pretended to have altruistic and unbiased narratives but used the unaware dave as a bludgeon against all of his in-game opponents.

[Mini history lesson]
Mods typically were a combination of player votes and an inner mod conclusive vote. Mods consisted of many well respected, top players with freakish outliers like sultan, google chrome, and a younger version of cold case (he's cool now). Sid was not voted by players nor elected by mods. He spent his time sucking off Sun Tzu, the admin at the time, in a similar way he did to Dave. Sid was quietly and unilaterally promoted by the now disgraced Sun Tzu days before he was demoted for taking bribes from a player to complete a task. Players mostly didn't mind because he remained quiet and reasonable. Years later, during covid, Brian announced he wouldn't have internet for awhile (lol), so Sid was "temporarily" elevated to community manager with a red badge. To no ones surprise, he never stepped down and became some sort of authoritarian right hand admin, who never ever mentioned any of this. During this time he elevated fellow apparatchiks to modship who wouldn't question him. NPCs like lelouch, mobster, dire and others who have came and went. It was a total shit show. There was no longer diversity of thought or opinion, it was a one man regime, with dissenters being demoted or banned.

[The boil-over]
After years of wearing the mask, in 2022 Sid went mask off. Banning waffel and laochra, setting of the 2022 "crisis" events, and despite essentially the whole player base and 80% of the mods telling him to step down, he held on for dear life. Anyone in the "cool kids club" was nuked, players deleted, quit, lashed out. Sure, maybe this game was in decline, but that certainly was a shot of morphine into the artery of atwar. Atwar is like a tree of life, a few established players leave and it causes ripples that lead to many others stepping away. Sid resented Laochra and others on a personal level for his failure to fit in the competitive ingroup. He didn't have the skill to compete or the personality to entertain and instead of doing his own thing like a normal person he harbored that resentment for years until he could go scorched earth.

The end-game
A resentful, freakish, inferior freak tried to convince dave to essentially corporatize AtWar. I look at Sids awful plan like Bolshevism. In 1918, communist freaks murdered the Russian Royal Romanov family in their basement. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and their 5 children, the youngest child being 13, were brutally murdered. The bolsheviks killed the children too because they knew that if they left even one alive, the people would be able to cling onto an heir of the throne and it threatened their one party communist rule. You may be thinking, wtf Sphinks has gone insane, stay with me here. Like the bolsheviks, Sid wanted to eradicate all atwar history, as he had never taken part in it. He wanted to dismantle players clans, hierarchies, the competitive system as a whole. These were words out of his mouth. He wanted to flatten this whole game, start anew and be the glorious leader of "hundreds of thousands" of braindead bots, who had no notion of what "Mortal Kombat was, or what a 3v3 Europe game was". I am not exaggerating this plan, he wanted to raze this place for a monetized botfarm. This is sheer resentment of someone who has never won a clan war season, never played a game with the season on the line, climbed the duel rank charts. They wanted it ALL GONE. All of you who spent years contributing to this community were nothing but cattle, replaceable, expendable. During the peak of being high on his own supply he even mentioned that "AtWar would be his retirement plan" once it went mainstream. These are verifiable facts. Once that plan seemed unattainable he just disappeared, leaving a path of ruin and bans in his wake.

[The whitepill]
It's not all doom and gloom. I know for a fact this game isn't near the top of priorities in Daves busy life, especially in this volatile economic climate. But there are many talented, genius individuals here who would love to help you fix this place up and perhaps monetize it better. But thats a conversation for another time. This place is one of a kind, and there are ways to increase revenue and player-count with it becoming a soulless slop-fest. And I appreciate you for at least keeping the lights on for now.

[Final Thoughts]
At the end of the day, AtWar is more than just a game, it's a living, breathing community built by the blood, sweat, and rivalries of its players. Dave, you've kept this chaotic, beautiful mess alive, and for that, we owe you. The scars of the past, won't fade easily, but they're a testament to what this place once was and could be again. There's still life in these halls, still talent willing to step up, and still a chance to turn this into something sustainable without losing its soul. Let's not let resentment or apathy write the final chapter.

Sphinx, I never quite know when to take you seriously or not. I'm going to assume you ARE being serious this time (except probably not the part about Sid and the Bolsheviks) and respond accordingly. (I hope you're not trolling me...)

Anyway, I do appreciate your message and I have no grievances with you either.

I came into atWar admittedly not knowing many things, and, believe it or not, I tried to keep an open mind. I listened to many different voices. Some I agreed with, some I didn't. As long as people were respectful or civil about it, I was too, whether I agreed with their actual views or not. (In other words, just because I get along with someone, does not mean I'm going to run and carry out their vision for atWar.)

That said, there were some people who, for whatever reason, chose to get on my bad side. Laochra was one of them who came at me all combative from day one. That was never going to end well. Sid didn't need to persuade me of anything... people like Laochra and others revealed themselves to me all on their own.

I've met Sid in person and I believe he is a pretty normal, rational guy. I really don't understand the hatred against him. But I digress.

Again I do appreciate the message. I'm still here and happy to talk with you any time.

Written by ImUlvilating, 02.04.2025 at 19:06

Atwar has given me rushes I crave for to this day, playing cws for hours and carrying lategame, losing in incredible fashion (thanks tungston and others) or the rush of being someone who I've been trying to beat for months to years. Discussing strategy in this game is fun and incredibly captivating. Trolling low ranks is the equivalent to true happiness, training them is impossible but also a fun thing to try and do.

Helping people get premium, being toxic as hell, im sure most people have had similar experiences when they were low ranks getting dogged on but being able to talk to the vast community. it's been years but I literally remember hundreds maybe a thousand different players even from all the few but valuable years I was able to play. The past is far behind us but I know I',m not just feeling nostalgia, those were great times for not just me but for countless people.

It's easy to blame in hindsight but people move on and this game definitely suffered after people lost the thing that made this game so great : the people who were part of the diverse culture of atwar. Shameful to see this put on blast here and have to relive the sad state of affairs put together by all the players and mods, 99% of people know what the problem is, and I think personally only half or less of the blame can be put on the owner, But rather his advantageous sidekick who swayed him in the wrong direction. Much love to keeping the game running and forums accessible, and thanks to the original devs for designing this work of art.

I appreciate your feedback even if I don't 100% agree with it. I assume you're blaming Sid for atWar's problems, which is unfair. If you want to blame anybody you might as well blame me, even if I disagree with it, because as far as I recall Sid and I were always in agreement with what needed to be done here.

Written by Nero, 02.04.2025 at 18:54

Hi I am Nero

I have to post in this before it gets locked, and I'm surprised it hasn't been already. Like many others, this game was my childhood. Other kids had RuneScape or WoW, I had Afterwind. I have years of fond memories, and even served as a mod for a time.

With that out of the way, it speaks volumes alone that the forum is full of the same complaints over 3 years later. It also just so happens that that's about the only activity the forum really gets, maybe new players are put off by the hour loading time that has been present since day 1.

I remember Dave saying he bought the game because he loved it, he saw a future for it. That's why, instead of modernizing some features, he started an anti-toxicity crusade against some of the most established players. And what good did that do? Over 3 years later, the most activity this game gets is transient guests. And yet, here I am posting in a thread made by Waffel. Why would we come to post this after not playing for years? Because WE LOVE THE GAME TOO!

Maybe the administration and I have different views of community, but there has been no benefit to ANY community on this game. All I see now is a barren safe space for no one. People play games for fun, so when you ban or chase out the players having fun, no one will want to play. That's what happened to me, and I'm sure many others. And now that the toxic players and all their buddies are gone, you get no scenarios, no clan wars, no tournaments, and a dead forum. Just the fact that it took a thread from Waffel to revitalize the forums should tell you what you need to know.

I think it's time to admit that a few trolls aren't the worst thing about this game, and that a certain owner took poor advice. That scary toxic community is here years later wishing this game was playable, while the anti-toxicity crusaders have disappeared and left the game in shambles.

I don't exactly agree with your assessment, but I do appreciate your feedback. If we were to talk perhaps you would see things differently from my perspective -- or perhaps we would never agree 100%. But either way my metaphorical door is open to you, any time. (I think you know my personal Discord but if not Sascha can give it to you.)

Hope you are doing well.

Written by Waffelo, 02.04.2025 at 16:57

Many of the players that got banned, like Mauzer

Mauzer was not banned. He deleted himself for whatever reason, and he comes around now on an alt. He still plays to this day.

Written by Waffelo, 02.04.2025 at 16:57

You claim that you've spend hours talking with me, listening to my concerns, and trying to understand all of it, but that is just a blatant lie.

You know damned well we chatted many, many times right here on atWar. You're cherry picking some irrelevant conversation from Discord and pretending that's the only time we talked, which YOU know is a blatant lie.

I didn't read the rest of your post because you're being disingenuous right off the bat.

Written by El Serbio, 02.04.2025 at 14:16

Dave, do you mind spending few minutes to write your plans for this game and everything? Its means a lot to some of us to hear what is happening with this game and future plans for it? When i say future plans, i mean in this year. Thanks in advance.

If you want to understand my plans you can read my past posts. My plans have not changed. Except that I am very unlikely to make any changes on atWar for 2025. I'm not saying any of this to be flippant. I'm just being honest.